The Fascists marched in London yesterday - but away from the East End, not through it. Their proposed procession through the heart of the Jewish quarter - which had caused strong protests to be made to the Home Secretary and had created a tense situation in the East End - was stopped by the police when it was on the point of setting out and it went, instead, along the Embankment.
There were extraordinary scenes in the East End long before the procession was due to start. Tremendous crowds fathered along the whole route of the proposed procession, and there were frequent clashes, in which the police had to draw their truncheons, shop windows were broken, many people suffered injury, and many arrests were made.
