WILD STREET FIGHT
RIVAL GANGS OF SAILORS SERIOUS AFFAIR AT GLASGOW. London,. Aug. 16. Revolvers, knives and loaded canes were used in a wild street fight between rival gangs of African and Arab sailors nt the Glasgow docks. The struggle arose over the engagement of an engine-room crew for a Clyde liner. The Africans were o, the opinion that the jobs should oe theirs. They crowded a street outside the union offices, which was in stantly cleared, leaving the coloured men struggling amid the flash of knives and terrifying shouts and groans. Ambulances collected twelve men lying on the pavement, four seriously wounded. Eight of those arrested were also wounded. A witness alleged that he saw an Arab in the act of drawing a revolver shot in the back by rivals, who chased another for several, streets until he collapsed with knife wounds in the forehead and back.—(A. and N.Z.)
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVII, Issue 209, 18 August 1927, Page 6
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