A RACIAL QUARREL

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 139, 1 March 1918, Page 8

A RACIAL QUARREL

ONE SAILOR STABS ANOTHER,

. A stabbing affray occurred recently on the ship Terpsichore, berthed at the railway pier, Williamstowii, says the Melbourne "Age." The crew, which is of mixed nationalities, including Spaniards," Portuguese, Danes, Norwegians, Brazilians, and some Britishers, were at tea, when a Brazilian named Aristobulo Periera Beniamino, it is alleged, got out of his bunk, and attacked a. Dano named Snren Sorensen, with an iron bar, ahout two feet long, it is said he struck the Dane several times with the bar, ehaso-rl him out of the forecastle, and. drawing a knife from his pocket, opened the blade, seized the Dane round the nock,' and stabbed him in the neck and on the left side, below the ribs. Tho crew went to the assistance* of the injured man, who was removed to the local hospital.

The quarrel is attributed to racial differences. The Brazilian, on Sunday, had drawn in crayon the Brazilian flag on a piece of cardboard, and had left it in liis bunlc. Later it was found tn have several cuts in it, and it is said ho retaliated, before . oommenemp his onslaught on tho Dane, by similarly cutting tho Danish He was arrestqd on a charye of maliciously wounding,- with intent to do grievous bodily harm. He is 20 years of age, and the injured man is 23.