HOUSE BLOWN UP IN SOUTH MELBOURNE
BOARDER INJURED—ANOTHER MOVE IN WATERSIDE FEUD Reed. noon. MELBOURNE, To-day. An outrage was perpetrated tliis morning, when several rooms of a boarding-house in South Melbourne were wrecked and a man injured. A terrific roar awakened the boarders. The police are convinced that the outrage is another move in the waterside feuds. Two volunteer stevedores were yesterday attacked in Flinders Street, in the city, by about 20 men. The jaw of one of the stevedores was broken, and the other man suffered facial abrasions. The police arrested the chief assailant. Mr. William Swanton’s house, which was damaged by a bomb yesterday, is a very fine one, with large grounds. He is a prominent shipping man, and a director of William Crosby and Company, Ltd., of Melbourne. He is at present visiting Sydney. The only occupants of the house at the moment of the explosion were women, who were terrified.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 518, 22 November 1928, Page 9
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154HOUSE BLOWN UP IN SOUTH MELBOURNE Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 518, 22 November 1928, Page 9
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