FRACAS IN APIA.
POLICE AND NATIVES CLASH. AN UNCONFIRMED REPORT. (UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION—BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH—COPYRIGHTS (AUSTRALIAN PRE/SS ASSOCIATION.) Received 11.50 a.m. to-day. SUVA, June 2. Unconfirmed reports state that there was a fracas at Apia when the military police arrested: a Man adherent. Others of his countrymen attacked the police. The mob, however, was dispersed. One native received a bayonet wound in the stomach, and another had liis teeth, knocked out with a rifle butt and was sent to hospital. All is now quiet.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 2 June 1928, Page 9
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