DANCE HALL RIOT.
FIVE PERSONS KILLED. Five people were killed and 14 wounded fit a fancy dress ball at Udvnrnok, Czechoslovakia, in February, during a riot caused by a number of peasant youths who tried to expel foreign tourists from the dance hall. Knuckledusters, knives and revolvers weie used in a furious scuffle. While men were engaged in hand-to-hand fighting, girls and women trampled on each other in the narrow doorway in a desperate endeavour to escape the bullets which were flying at random about the hall. Many women were taken to hospital Buffering from wounds and shock, while 10 youths with smoking revolvers and bloodstained daggers were arrested.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21153, 9 April 1932, Page 3 (Supplement)
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109DANCE HALL RIOT. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21153, 9 April 1932, Page 3 (Supplement)
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