DISTURBANCE ON NAURU ISLAND
REPORT IN SYDNEY NEWSPAPER (Rec. 8.30 p.m.) SYDNEY, July 18. Four Chinese were killed on Nauru Island on June 7 in a clash with Australian members of the Nauru Administration, according to a report in the Sydney “Sunday Sun.” The report claims that fighting occurred when hundreds of Chinese labourers who had* completed two years’ service on the island, refused to board the steamer Helikon for China. Hundreds of coolies armed themselves with spears, clubs and axes. They erected barricades and posted notices warning officials against enterthe barricaded areas. When Australian officials ordered the Chinese to dovfn their arms and board the ehip. they were met with a shower of stones. Shots over the heads of the crowd failed to halt the Chinese, and tne officials then fired into the melee. Two Chinese were killed immediately, and two others died of wounds.
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Press, Volume LXXXIV, Issue 25550, 19 July 1948, Page 3
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