TROUBLE IN SYDNEY.
Batons and Fists Used on Unemployed. (Received October 28, 10.20 a m ) SYDNEY, October 28. \\ ithout preliminary warning a squad of about fifty police, with batons drawn, charged a crowd of 500 outside the Town Hall at Glebe, a suburb of Sydney, last night and in five minutes broke up a meeting which had been called as a protest against the dole questionnaire. A number of men were felled with batons and fists, five men and two women were arrested and three were sent to hospital. Before the charge by the police several constables, wfio were on dutv at the meeting, were attacked by the mob and struck with fists.
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Star (Christchurch), Volume XLIV, Issue 596, 28 October 1932, Page 1
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