DEPARTING TROOPS MAKE TROUBLE
REGRETTABLE DISTURBANCE AT MELBOURNE. ■By Telegraph-Press Association-Copyriglit Melbourne, August 2. A regrettable disturbance preceded the departure of a troopship. Owing to the authorities', refusal to grant leave several soldiers left-tho ship and endeavoured to break 'through the pier guard. In the attempt three wero injured. ' Tho following day the demand for leave was j moro insistent. Senator Pearce. 1 Federal Defence Minister, addressed tho men, stating that if they did not return to duty by the appoints bd time they would not bo allowed to proceed. : Every man mastered, • and tho ship departed.
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Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2530, 3 August 1915, Page 6
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