“DINKUM AUSSIE”
IMPETUOSITY OVERSTEPS BOUNDS.
CROWD RUSH DUKE’S OAR
BRISBANE, April 7. While the Duke was proceeding on a visit to the returned soldiers’ gathering at a theatre the police and military lost control of the crowd outside the entrance to the theatre. Even the plunging police horses were unable to quell the people’s ardor, the Dice’s car being unable to proceed. The Duke sat there lor ten minutes while efforts were made to clear a path across the footpath, but these were of no avail.
Eventually the car made as though to return to Government Douse, anu proceeded by a circuitous route to the rear entrance to the ball, the Duke being enabled To keep his engagement. A redeeming feature ot the unparalleled episode was that no effort was made actually to mob the car or even to mount the running board.
The police used every device in their power short of batoning the crowd, but were completely powerless. The crowd was composed largely of women and girls, many cf whom fainted. Others had to receive hospital treatment. The Duke left the theatre by the hack entrance and made the retain journey without incident.—U.P.A.
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Gisborne Times, Volume LXV, Issue 10368, 8 April 1927, Page 5
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