POLICE SUBDUE REDS

Feilding Star, Volume 8, Issue 2450, 20 June 1931, Page 6

POLICE SUBDUE REDS

ANOTHER EVICTION FIGHT SHOWERS OF STONES CONSTABLES USE REVOLVERS A SURERRAN CLASH man Drops dead with EXCITEMENT fAust. and N.Z. Cable) S.> dncy. June 10. Another sensational clash between anli-evicUon-V-s and the police took place at noo-n at Newtown, a suburb. The police on this occasion made greater us* of their revolvers, and fired fifteen shots before raiding it sdii i-detaehod two-stored house. THE INJURED Fourteen aiitii-evietionists and eight police were injured, and a spectator—-a man of about 10 years of age—dropped dead with excitement wliiTe watching tho battle. LEADING REDS Leading Communis s were again associated with the affair. Many of their members addressed the crowd before the police raid and urged J hr» workers to fall in beli’nd thorn and tight the police. SURPRISING SUDDENNESS Idle police regarded the challenge as an open defiance of the law, and with surprising suddenness they arrived in a motor-bus. Tlieir arrival was heralded by shouts and volleys of stones Men on an ups a rs balcony liiaintaine 1 a fusillade of stones, -vlicreup ill an inspector of po.ic-c cornman i 1 bis men to draw tlieir revolver* and fire. THEY DISAPPEARED Immediately there was a suecssion of shouts, and the balcony defenders d’sappeured ins dr. Tlie police battered down the doors and were met by a shower oi stones and hall-bricks- The wonder is that they escaped with tlieir lives. SHORT AND SHARP The battle inside raged for 29 minute'*, everything breakabo be ng reduced to ruins. Huge stones cairn* hurtling downstairs and mi-seU policemen by inches.