WILD WATERSIDE RIOT
PORT ADELAIDE BATTLE BATONS, GUN AND STONES ADELAIDE, Monday. A crowd of 1.000 waterside workers at Port Adelaide to-day rushed the volunteers who were unloading the Mareeba during the “smoke-oh.” The volunteers scrambled for the. gangway, which broke, and 15 men fell on the wharf. They and others climbed the ropes, crossed over the Mareeba and jumped into ketches on the other side. Stones were thrown at them. One volunteer replied by firing four shots from a revolver. Then 150 mounted police swooped down on the rioter-, who began to move toward the steamer Mannipa, where the volunteers were attacked with stones and boots. The police used their batons freely, and scattered the men in all direction-, many having to be sent to hospital. One volunteer, however, was badly injured. being brutally kicked when he was on the ground.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 562, 15 January 1929, Page 9
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