MORE RIOTING

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXI, 12 November 1928, Page 7

MORE RIOTING

STRIKE AFTERMATH

1 i OSTI LITI E.S AT WEST MELBOURNE

United Press Association—By Eloctrio Telegraph—Copyright

MELBOURNE, 10th November. As an. aftermath of the waterside trouble, Italians and others resumed hostilities in a West Melbourne street today, bottles, and stones and knives being used as weapons. Two were injured, Roy Johnson, a wharf labourer, having a knife wound in the groin, and iin Italian being hit with a stone. Allother Italian was arrested.

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MELBOURNE, This Day

A street fight between Italians and Australians in West Melbourne yesterday afternoon, resulted in two- men being taken to hospital, one being struck on the head' with a bottle and the other stabbed in the groin.

The trouble is said to have arisen out of a visit of small boys to a shop kept by an Italian. It is alleged that one tried to steal an ice cream and was promptly kicked out. He informed his relatives' and a number of men and women visited the shop and had words with the owner,, but matters seemed to have smoothed over and the crowd was taking the police advice to go away, when a young man rushed past a constable and appeared to strike an Italian, who fell to the ground bleeding from a knife wound. Then the fight was on. The Italian was joined by compatriots, arid stones and 'bottles flew. The Italian shopkeeper was badly wounded in the face by a stone, and rushed inside and secured a revolver, lie Tired a coii]ile of shots at the crowd, but owing to blood filling his eyes his aim was poor. Before, he could fire again he was disarmed by a policeman and was later charged with having carried a pistol without a permit.