Another Yarra Communist Fight
(Received 11 a.m.) MELBOURNE, This Day. Another Sunday disturbance occurred at a Communist meeting on the Yarra bank yesterday, when stones were thrown at speakers who were addressing about 1500 persons, many of whom had gone in the expectation of similar scenes to those last Sunday, when soldiers, sailors and members of the air force attempted to throw a speaker into the river. One speaker was struck on an eye by a stone, while bystanders were also struck. The meeting was orderly until 20 members of the A.I.F. arrived. They hooted, counted the speakers out and sang “God Save the King.” A brawl between soldiers and Communist sympathisers developed, and the police intervened with batons. After the meeting, two soldiers and several civilians complained that they had been struck by batons. Stones were thrown as the speakers drove away, and another brawl occurred. One man was removed unconscious in an ambulance, and treated in hospital for concussion.
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Northern Advocate, 19 February 1940, Page 8
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