A crowd of 300 returning from a Fascist meeting Friday night in Hackney, a London suburb, attacked Jewish passersby and smashed many windows, including those of the bethnal Green Labor Party headquarters. The crowd shouted: “The Yids want war we must get rid of the Yids.”
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