FURTHER SERIOUS TROUBLE
RETURNED SOLDIERS v.
POLICEMEN
FREMANTLE, May 6. Further rioting has occurred on the wharves. When several volunteers were leaving a. crowd 'of strikers anil women attacked and severely dealt with them. Later in the day a large ♦orce of returned soldiers marched through the streets and requested the shopkeepers not to serve the police with provisions. Towards evening a policeman was attacked by returned soldiers and badly injured. Other police came to his assistance and, after iiring several allots, d"roye" the rioters off. A number of police were injured.
Reports were received later that the soldiers were organising an attack on the police station.
A meeting of railway workers decided to support the lumpers in every way.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXVI, Issue 7564, 7 May 1919, Page 5
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120FURTHER SERIOUS TROUBLE Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXVI, Issue 7564, 7 May 1919, Page 5
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