WILD MELEE
(Press Assn.-
SHOT FIRED WHEN COMMUNIST KNOCKED OFF HIS SOAP BOX CITIZENS' GROWING ANGRY
-By Telegraph— Copyright.)
SYDNEY, Wednesday. In three centres public feeling against the Communists was translated into hostile acts. At Drummoyne, Gomrade Thompson was knocked off his "soap box. A mild melee followed and a revolver was fired. Angry townspeople at Uralla gave a Red speaker until morning to leave the district. A Croydon Park a Gommunist speaker .was upset from® his platform and twith two companions was saved from rough handling hy the intervention of the police.
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Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 1, Issue 81, 26 November 1931, Page 5
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