CORNERED AT A BOXING MATCH.
SURPRISE FOR SHIRKERS. LONDON, September 5. A sensation was caused in boxing circles at Blockfriars when detectives, < accompanied by soldiers with fixed bayonets, took possession of a building crowded with 3,000 spectators who were watching a boxing contest. The polioe I demanded that every eligible man should , show his papers and explain why he was not in khaki. Inntantly the "dodgers" > and the "shirkers" in the crowd attempted to ...escape Fifty were arrested and escorted in procession through the streets to the police station, amid the loud . applause of wounded soldiers in the vicinity.
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Auckland Star, Volume XLVII, Issue 213, 6 September 1916, Page 6
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