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Colonist, Volume LXI, Issue 15046, 14 April 1919, Page 2

} A new pha,se of Bolshevism has manifested itself at Sydney, where a police constable attacked a returned soldier and called him opprobrious names. 'Following so closely on the heels ofttke action of the Brisbane police in protecting Russian Bolsheviks in that city, it is a remarkable development, which, has stirred the Sydney "telegraph" to outspoken criticism. It says: "Astonishment is a mild word with which to characterise the public feeling engendered by the evidence given in the Police Court in the case m which Captain Henry Maddrell, a returned officer of the A.T.F was proceeded against by Constable Laycock on a charge of assault. In the course of his evidence Captain Maddrell stated that this constable said to him: "That will do, you uickdaw; Willie, where 1 s your cane?" Witness replied that he was no Willie and that he bad -1J years' service to his credit. He asked the constable to leave his sister's name out of it, and to take him mto custody instead. He was then taken in charge. As the Magistrate alter- hearing further evidence, dismissed the case against Captain Maddrell> it may be inferred that he believed the statement of the military officer to Le more reliable than that of the constable. It can hardly be denied by any unprejudiced person that the words said to have been used by the constable to Captaui Maddiell we*o grossly provocative imci insulting. The decorations whi6h the returned Anzac wears are marks of honour conferred on him by his country tor courage and good -service in the field I hat a constable should sneer at hini tor wearing these decorations is ;n----crodiblo. . . . For a policeman charged with the responsibility of preserving the peace to use insulting language to any citizen calculated to provoke disorder would be intolerable, fout to insult the uniform and the honour decorations of a soldier who had served his country in the war 15 outrageous. Surely the mattor is not going to rest where the Police Court proceedings left it."