CANE WORKERS FIGHT.
BRITISH AND FOREIGN NATIONALS. SEVERAL COMBATANTS WOUNDED. vL'..ri/:i> i'ai.SS ASSOCIATION—EY EL.KCTBIC ■;Ei.EGaArJi—copyuight.) (Received December Ist, 11 p.m.) BRISBANE, December 1. A .--e-ri'ius elnsh occurred in the vicinity of Fully between British and foreign nationals engaged in the sugar fields. Many were injured. The combatants are. all cane workers. Sticks, stones, lwltles, knives, and pistols were used. George Norris has a wound in tho chest ten inches long; Harry Robertson has a knifo stab in the hack; an Italian hns a bullet wound in a leg: an Italian woman is Buffering from a wound in the head, while five other Italians were treated in hospital for cuts and abrasions. The clash was the outcome of bad feeling, due to tho ever-increasing influx of foreigners.
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Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 20100, 2 December 1930, Page 11
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126CANE WORKERS FIGHT. Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 20100, 2 December 1930, Page 11
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