THE PORT DARWIN RIOT
TROUBLE OVER THE PRICE OF BEER. Brisbane, December 20. Detail?, from Port Darwin show tliat a mob 0f.700,-headed by a motor-car carrying -an-effigy of Dr. Gilruth. marched to Government House, and, after listening to Dr. "Gilruth, swarmed over the grounds, broke the windows, and disaviiied the-police-of tliuir rillw. The cflii;y was then burned. Tho cause of the violence was Dr. (lilrulh's refusal to depart by (lift, next stiNimer.—Press Assn. (lice, December 20, 0.25 p.m.) '■ Brisbane, ■ December 20. The trouble-;at Port Darwin was seething for week? over the increased ]>rico of beer. The hotels had been boycotted for tho past fifteen days. During the riot, firearms and bludgeons were freely iir-cd. Dr.-Gilruth managed to escape after a rough handling. Tho town is now quiet.—-Press Ass*.
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Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 74, 21 December 1918, Page 7
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128THE PORT DARWIN RIOT Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 74, 21 December 1918, Page 7
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