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NEW GUARDSMEN AND COMMUNISTS WILD STREET BRAWL. (Received 10.30 a.m.) United Press Assn—Bv Electric Telegraph—Copyright. SYDNEY, This Day. There >vere- wild scenes at Bankstown when a detachment of the New Guard clashed with Communists. The trouble started when the New' Guardsmen broke up a meeting ol the- unemployed workers movement a-t-V which revolutionary statements wgjie being made. Hundreds of townspeople joined in the wild melees which soon become too much for local police control. Reinforcements arrived and the fighting was quelled after repeated baton charges. Four arrests were made. ■Many were injured by stones, stakes, flying glass ancl batons.

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Pahiatua Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 11985, 27 February 1932, Page 6

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FREE FOR ALL MELEE Pahiatua Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 11985, 27 February 1932, Page 6

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