SYDNEY STRIKE.
RUMORS OF MARTIAL LAW UNFOUNDED. ORDINARY CONDITIONS PREVAIL. (Per Press Association). CHRISTCHURCH, This day. A local merchant yesterday forwarded a cable message to a leading Sydney merchant inquiring how the strike was progressing and if martial law was in force. The following reply was received:—“Ordinary conditions prevailing. ’ ’ Another Christchurch importer sent a similar message and the following reply is to hand:—“Statement incorrect. No martial law.”
It was reported in some papers that martial law had been proclaimed and that Sydney was in a state of revolt. Hence these messages.
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Waipawa Mail, Volume XXXVII, Issue 7922, 23 August 1917, Page 3
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