PROTEST IN MELBOURNE
U.S. Consulate Attacked (N.Z. Freit Ann.—Copyright) MELBOURNE, July 6. Police patrolled the United States Consulate in Melbourne today after a windowsmashing attack on the building late yesterday by vandals who later claimed to be members of an Australian “Peoples’ Liberation Army.” Eye-witnesses said a group of .young men hurling ink bottles and stones, and one wielding an -iron bar, smashed 18 quarter-inch plate glass windows at the consulate. Later a man telephoned Melbourne newspapers and radio stations and said that he was one of 13 members of the “Peoples’ Liberation Army” who smashed the windows. He said: “We successfully demonstrated our opposition to United States imperialism and the futility of simple protest and legitimate dissent.” Last Friday night the Consulate was the scene of a clash between police and thousands of demonstrators in a July 4 protest against the Vietnam war.
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Press, Volume CIX, Issue 32034, 8 July 1969, Page 8
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