ARCHBISHOP MANNIX
DEMONSTRATION IN SYDNEY
GOVERNMENT URGED TO TAKE
ACTION.
(UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.—COPTRIOHT.)
MELBOURNE, 20th March,
There were exciting scenes at a publip demonstration against Archbishop Mannix's Sinn Feinism and the display of disloyal emblems at the recent St. Patrick's procession. Among the crowd at the Town Hall the Sinn Fein colouis caused free fights, and the fact that some remakied seated during the playing of the National Anthem created an angry demonstration. The meeting resolved to' urge the Federal Government to take action under the War Precautions Act. Subsequently a visit was paid to the Right Hon. W. M. Hughes, Federal Prime Minister, who promised ,to give the matter immediate consideration.
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Evening Post, Volume XCV, Issue 70, 22 March 1918, Page 8
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