JAPANESE CAUSE RIOT.
I i DISORDERS AT BROOME, WHITE MEN MOBILISED. j Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. ; (Reed. 11.5 p.m.) PERTH. Doc. 21. I A Japanese at Broome, claiming racial equality, ran amok, armed with a stick : i and firearms. A general riot followed, in I : which two Japanese were killed and others j wounded. Two white police were injured. ' , Ihe Riot Act was read, and all white ! i inhabitants sworn in as special constables, j j Returned soldiers and Rifle Club men, i j under A.I.F. officers, are patrolling the i i town and disarming the Japanese.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LVII, Issue 17660, 22 December 1920, Page 7
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