UNEXAMPLED VIOLENCE
WILD SCENES IN SYDNEY CROWD LOOTS RELIEF DEFOT CITY POLICE FORCE DOUBLED. (United Press Association —By Electric Telegraph Copyright.! Received 11.15 a.in. to-day. SYDNEY, June 20. Yesterday will be remembered in Sydney as a day of unexampled violence. Following the Newtown riot tliere was a wild.! demonstration in Railway Square, where shop windows were broken. Even the “Labour Daily” newspaper office suffered. Altogether 22 arrests were made and six others are in hospital. For the first time since the 1927-23 razor war, the police in the metropolitan, area have been doubled. Disgraceful scenes were witnessed at the Orange relief depot, when a crowd of 500 men and women rushed the, building and helped themselves to a great quantity of food and. clothing, which was intended for distribution among the poor and needy. At the end of the raid there was not an article: left. One woman.,was knocked down .and trampled bn, and pandemonium reigned while the unruly crowd escaped with armfuls of goods.
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Hawera Star, Volume LI, 20 June 1931, Page 5
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165UNEXAMPLED VIOLENCE Hawera Star, Volume LI, 20 June 1931, Page 5
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