COMMUNISTS WREAK REVENGE ON LANDLORD
SYDNEY POLICE MAKE RAID ON REDS' HALL. (United Press Assn.—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) SYDNEY, July 28. Following an auction sale of household furniture seized by bailiffs for non-payment of rent in the suburb of Clovelly, a party of Communists, vowing vengeance on the landlord, broke into the evicted people’s cottage, smashed the fittings and windows, wrecked the gas stove, bath, fence, and chalked remarks on the wall 1 !. They then returned to the Communist Hall.
Plain clothes police and detectives to-night raided the Qommunist headquarters, when a fierce clash ensued. The police felled several men with their batons. Finally they arrested eleven men to the accompaniment of jeers, bad language and threats.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 19134, 29 July 1930, Page 1
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