SQUATTERS FIGHT WITH R.A.A.F. GUARDS
Infiltration At Brisbane Station Continues BRISBANEpFeb." 9. Fire hoses, rifle butts, axes and knives were used last night during a battle between squatters and R.A.A.F guards at the Victoria Park Air Force station, Brisbane. At one stage, the squatters captured an Air Force guard and held hira, as a hostage until--R.A.A.F. ofiicers agreed to let them occupy an empty hut in the camp. The battle begah when 12 men tried to move their families into an unoccupied hut. The twp men injured were a squatter and Ronald H. Haas, the district Communist Pai'ty chairman. The squatters claim that guards hit the men and that a guard's bayonet cut Haas' hand. The squatters carried axes and knives. . .When they sent for help, more. than 50 people who had occupied the huts at the camp arrived as rein'forcements, The guards tuxned a. hose on one party. The squatters surrounded the guards and one man slashed the hose with a knif'e. Thc- police were summoned to the scene and afterwards, an R.A.A.F., offieer permitted the occupation of the hut, There, ai'e now more than 450 squatters," comprising* mere than 100 families, in the eanip, ■*
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Rotorua Morning Post, Issue 5324, 10 February 1947, Page 5
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196SQUATTERS FIGHT WITH R.A.A.F. GUARDS Rotorua Morning Post, Issue 5324, 10 February 1947, Page 5
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