SHOTS FIRED AT CONSTABLE
LAWLESSNESS IN SYDNEY Sydney, Sept. 22. Disturbed in the act of blowing a safe at the Surrey Hills post office last night, two cracksmen fired six shots in response to one from a police constable. All the shots missed. The safebreakers scaled a 7ft wall, ran through a, private home and escaped in a car. Over 300 people were taken into custody last night by special police patrols for drunkenness, brawling arid offensive behaviour. A mobile patrol arrested 10 men who stopped a truck by forming a cordon and assaulted the driver. Thugs attacked a young' man who was walking in'Pi'tt Street in broad daylight with his fiancee. A large crowd gathered in this and another incident at iGranville, where a 60-year-old man was struck down, but nobody intervened in either case; Both victims were seriously injured.
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Bay of Plenty Times, Volume LXXV, Issue 14172, 24 September 1946, Page 3
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