HAD GERMAN VOICES.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 144669, 1 May 1915, Page 6

HAD GERMAN VOICES.

.EXCITEMENT ON A STEAMER. , SHOWER OF CURRY AND RICE. SYDNEY, April 16. There was great excitement at a Darling Island'wharf'last night, where the steamer Middlesex had just completed loading prior to sailing for London. ~ . , t Round about midnight a motor-car arrived at tbo wharf, and two men alighted. They asked the wharf watchman where tlio man on duty on the Middlesex was to be found. “At the top of tho gangway,” they were informed, but. to the surprise of the watchman, they clambered up a rope ladder on tho sijje of the vessel. A minute later there was a stampede, and a- sound as if Bedlam had bioken loose. Two men came over the side m a. desperate hurry .covered with , curry and rice, and followed by words which would have 1 made Mr. Henry. V\ dlis s hair stand on end had they been used in Parliament. Mr.- Smithers, b-'L. would have assessed them at about £0 and costs. , 1 ,1 It was learned that the two men had located the firemen’s forecastle, which, contrary to the usual custom on steamers, is at th<* after end of oho Middlesex and asked a couple of men whether a certain man was, on board. A 'fireman considered the voices to bo those of Gormans, and at once decided to attack tho enemy. Anything handy, which happened to include tho remains of a curry raid rice supper, was hm led at the fleeing men. Others joined m the pursuit, with the result that the two men were glad to roach the. Olf thev went .to.sec,lire a coapie ot policemen, desiring to lay a. chai ge of assault, but instead the captain of the Middlesex preferred one of trespassing o^he B m^ m tor..whom the two 'persons, were searching signed 011 as a Dutchman. hut was stated, to, be a Gorman. The authorities are inquiring into the matter.