MELBOURNE SCARE
TRAIN SERVICE SUSPENDED TEARS 01- BOMB OUTRAGES THE WATERSIDE STRIKE United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright MELBOURNE, 10th October. The tram service from the city to Port .Melbourne was suspended for nearly two hours late last night owing to reports of a bomb outrage planned against trains carrying tree wharf workers. Police and railway authorities guarded the line carefully, and a thorough search revealed nothing sinister. Theatre patrons and others going homo towards midnight when the trams resumed, travelled with uneasy minds and tense nerves. The line was strongly guarded nil night. While a mass meeting of strikers was in progress this morning, 1900 volunteers were working thirty oversea rnd inter-State ships. Over 35.000 enrolments have Icen made already, including a numoer of unionist workers from Queensland. There are still 26 idle inter-State ships at Melbourne.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXI, 11 October 1928, Page 5
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