FIGHT IN THE STREET.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 18942, 13 February 1925, Page 6

FIGHT IN THE STREET.

AUSTRALIANS AND FILIPINOS. MAN SHOT IN THE ARM. Fists, slingshots, iron bars, stones and bottles were used in a fight between about 30 Filipino seamen and about half that 1 number of Australians at Yarraville, Melbourne, on the night of January 24. The battle, which la: ted for nearly half an hour, was witnessed by a large crowd of people, and for a. time the positim looked dangerous. Stern measures by the police, however, prevented bloodshed. Four Filipinos were arrested. The tight, it is stated, originated in a white man stiiking a Filipino on the jaw after the Filipino had pushed him. This was the signal for a general free fight, and both parties set in with a will, Although the white mea had had a large quantity of liquor, they were able to fight with vim, and tackled their opponents in such a way that the Filipinos resorted to desperate measures. Immediately after the fight Albert Marr, labourer, reported to the police that he had been shot in an arm. He said that while going home ho joined in the fight to help the other civilians against, heavy odds, and that just as be began to fight he heard a report and felt a stinging sensation in an arm. ffe found that an elbow bad been grazed, apparently by a bullet, and that the wound was bleeding.