CANE KNIVES AND BOTTLES USED IN BRAWL.
iiiUTlSii AND ITALIANS AT (iiilT.y. DISPUTE AUtTNUST CAVE CITTEItS. P/tHu Association —Cupyxitflxt. (Received 9.50 a.m.) BRISBANE, This Day. Cane knives and bottles flourished in a brawl between British and Italian cane-cutters at Cross Roads near lunisfail. Peeling is running i high. The trouble arose over the filling of a vacancy in a mixed gang. The British chief ganger selected a fellow countryman, but the Italians wanted an Italian. They refused to allow the Britisher to sleep at the barracks. A bottle was thrown and a fracas followed.
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Stratford Evening Post, Issue 7, 30 July 1930, Page 5
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