DANCE SENSATION
SHOTS FIRiED INTO THE ROOM. AS REPRISAL FOR EJECTION. (Australian Press Associalion.) MELBOURNE, Sept. 19. While a dance was being held in the Friends of the Soviet Hall, a fusil ad eof rifle bullets was fired. The bullets riddled windows and walls of the 'building, -Hut no one was' Kurt. •'The-attack is believed to have been made- by. a mqb of larrikinsas; a re-' prisM against the ejection of five of their number from the dance earlier in the night. Twenty young men, armed with rifles and pickets, were seen.on the other side of the street. 'Stones and 'pickets were hurled through the windows, and the dancers prevented a rush on the building's by bolting the doors. Three large plate glass windows in a shop below wore pierced with 'bullets.
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Hokitika Guardian, 19 September 1932, Page 6
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132DANCE SENSATION Hokitika Guardian, 19 September 1932, Page 6
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