FIGHT AT WEDDING
**««*-**" •«-- COMMOTTON DURING BREAKFAST
Commercial rivalry led to a wedding feast at Boiilogne-Billancourt, near Paris, becoming »a free fight. M. Kiubski, a Pole, was entertaining a wedding party of thirty in a restaurant when a great commotion arose in the street and a stone crashed through the window.
Outside a crowd of Arab's had gathered. They were regular customers of a rival restaurant owned by an Arab, and it is alleged that they had decided to break up the festival. They forced their way into the ‘restaurant, whereupon two police officers who we-'c among the guests called upon the leaders to surrender. A fight followed, in which fists'and knives were freely used.
A police alarm was sounded, and in a • few mintues a lorry filled with armed (officers arrived. The Arabs silently fled, but three arrests were made by ;^le,tectivos 'attached to the special '.North African section of. the Paris police.
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Hokitika Guardian, 17 February 1933, Page 2
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153FIGHT AT WEDDING Hokitika Guardian, 17 February 1933, Page 2
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