ANOTHER CLASH
NEW GUARD AND COMMUNISTS. HUNDREDS JOIN IN. (Australian Press Association.) (Received this day at, 9.2iS a.m) SYDNEY, February 20. I here were wild scenes at Bankstown when a detachment of the New , Guard clashed with Communists. The trouble started when New Guardsmen broke up a meeting of the unemployed workers’ movement, at which revolutionary statements were being made. Hundreds of townspeople joined ?n the wild melees which soon became too much for the local police control. Reinforcemnts arrived and the fighting was' quelled after repeated baton charges.
Four arrests were made, and many were injured by stones, stakes, flying glass, and batons.
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Hokitika Guardian, 27 February 1932, Page 5
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104ANOTHER CLASH Hokitika Guardian, 27 February 1932, Page 5
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