RAT CAUSES RIOT
WOMEN PANIC-STRICKEN Females shrieked and rushed from two frock shops causing bedlam in the Imperial Arcade, Sydney, recently. Bargain hunters descended on the crowd outside, and in a few minutes wild confusion threatened to develop into a free fight. Innocent cause of the trouble was a large rat which had come from behind a box in a frock shop. A woman purchasing stockings screamed, and, followed by a dozen others, she made for the door, only to be beaten by a whisker by the rat, which escaped into the shop next door. Women in this shop also screamed and fled, and order was not restored until a policeman arrived and exercised his “Move on” authority. The rat escaped.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 992, 7 June 1930, Page 21
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121RAT CAUSES RIOT Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 992, 7 June 1930, Page 21
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