BROKEN HILL AFFRAY

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2349, 4 January 1915, Page 5

BROKEN HILL AFFRAY

FURTHER MrAILS ;"'■' , * Sydney,, January 2. 'As a sequel to the Broken Hill afri fray, a mob of several thousand persons marched to ;tlie- Gorman. Club in more Street j and set fire..'to'ithe '-buildings, which wore entirety the crowd singing patriqtio airs. The crowd then.'proceeded to the Afghan camel camp. The military,' with fixed bayonets and-loaded rifles,.' appeared during the fire, but were nh-' able to prevent it. The first war'flag' ever'captured in Australia is now. in the custody of the police.: The Killed and Wounded. .•/ Latest details of the outrage conftrifc' the fact that four persons were killes 1 "' and seven wounded. The wounded are:' —Mary. Kavanagh, aged 23, seriously ;V George Stokes, 14, seriously; 'Thomas'. Campbell, 70; Lucy Shaw,. 16; Alma '• Croker, 34; Roso Crabb, SO; and Con-i* stable Mills. The last-named's case is l , not critical. The asailants fired twenty; or thirty shots. •.',■; When tho alarm was telephoned the polioe inspectot dispatched two' motor- jcars, containing a force of armed men,V who followed tho Turks' tracks alongthe western outskirts of-the town.' Arriving at a point near the Cable Hotel two men were seen amongst the rocks-' on the hill.- Not suspecting them . to.'" be the enemy,' tho sergeant'was. aboubf, to make inquiries, when the.Turks sud-j-V denly opened fire, and Mills was struck' by two bullets. Firing then com-; menced on both sides. . Soon there was; a general rush of armed civilians, who'. joined in the fight. The. attacking. . party spread out on the adjoining hills' | and poured a hot fire on the enemy's *; position. The Turks returned the fire at short range, without' effeot; / The battle did not last long. 'At 11.-. o'clock the attackers rushed the Turke'stronghold, and found both were lying -1 on the ground behind a shelter, with "* many wounds. . . • ' . . Policeman's Perilous journey. f During the fight the police ran.shorfi of ammunition, and Sergeant made a perilous journey to the rear or£' the Cable Hotel to obtain fresh supplies./'The police have'established the iden- ' tity of the Turks. The one killed out-i'.,, right was Mulla Abdulla, aged 60, a'; butcher, recently convicted of slaugh- '■' taring sheep on unlicensed-, premises..'. The other was Gool Mahomed, who died ■ en route to the hospital. It is be-, lieved ho was an ice-oream .vendor. Ah-*; dulla carried a Snidef rifle attd ;a 'hotoe- . .> made bandolier, for forty-eight cart-.v ridges,, twenty-six of which were,empty j'\ He also possessed a revolver and, cart- <' ridges, and a new - knife in. a. sheathe N Mahomed's rifle was a Martini-Henry. •i Help from Loyal Indians. When the constable was shot, -.Wal-V~ shama Assouv-a;Puniabi from Peshawar,,'faced the fire, and carried water to the' y wounded'constable. ■ ■Khan'Bahader,,a ' camel owner, contributed 'largely to the i: - Turks' defeat. His. residence is near % , the Cable Hotel. The police used cover, !•■ shooting through the windows: Markj V on the railway carriage suggest (that ex« yj panding bullets :were used. •"'..:?:. - ALL QUIET. _. (WOUNDED MAN IN/CRITICAL *■ - . . STATE, "••.-,;-'■ ( 1 (Rec. January 3, 8.80 p.m.).'. \ "Sydney, January .8.- • .>' . Broken Hill is quiets '' ' I ■•»■*■ \' . All the seven wounded are progress- .. ing -well except Thomas ■■'•Campbell, « .whose* condition is.critical. ; '. iv The inquest was 'opened aridudjoNirn* "'- ed Thursday. , , . .._..._ ,- ... ' An undercurrent of racial feeling exists. \ A. raid on the oamel camp! was ;frus- *■ trated by the police and military;A man climbed the flagßtaff, the only stick remaining on the German Club, and'hoisted: the Australian' flag amid the cheers of the crowd. - --'-^-^ An Italian was arrested for threaten- J-"' ing to shoot a man. The crowd thinking him an enemy subject were' ready . to-lynch him, but the police protected ' him. .';■'. Mr. W. M. Hughes, 'Attorney-Gen->-oral, has asked for'details of Friday's . affray, and says: "If the act of the Turks shows the necessity there will be ; a rigid supervision of all enemy sul-'* : jeots." -' .