DESPERATE FIGHT
EVICTION STRUGGLE POLICE AND UNEMPLOYED ENCOUNTER AT NEWCASTLE By Telegraph- -Press Association—CopyrigMl Received June 14, 10.20 p.m. NEWCASTLE, June 14. Nino police and about 20 unemployed pickets were injured, some fa tally, in a desperate anti-eviction fight at a house at Highlield to-day. The arrests total 30. Tho affray started when a small army of police descended on the house with the intention of evicting the tenant. The unemployed were in possession of the cottago and were armed with all sorts of weapons, chiefly pointed sticks. The police rushed the place brandishing batons, and were met by fierce opposition. Blows were exchanged which feljed one after another. The "fighting was
accompanied by the wildest shouting and cursing and it was not long before a number of combatants were on the ground bleeding and insensible Every minute a blood-bespattered man ran from the house taking refuge in the crowd of onlookers. The police task was unenviable, but they soon had the upper hand. A brick thrown at a policeman missed its mark and felled an on looker.
The battle ended as suddenly as 11 started. Ambulance men worked foi an hour rendering first aid and con veying the injured to the hospital.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 75, Issue 139, 15 June 1932, Page 7
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203DESPERATE FIGHT Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 75, Issue 139, 15 June 1932, Page 7
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