FREMANTLE RIOTS.

Taihape Daily Times, 7 May 1919, Page 5

FREMANTLE RIOTS.

FURTHER SERIOUS TROUBLE,

RETURNED SOLDIERS v POLICEMEN.

FREMANTLE, May 6,

Further rioting has occurred on the wharves. When several volunteers were leaving a crowd of strikers and women attacked and severely dealt with them. Later in the day a large force of returned soldiers marched through the streets and requested the shopkeepers not to serve the police with provisions.

Towards evening a policeman was attacked by returned soldiers and badly injured. Other police came to hig assistance and after firing several shots, drove the rioters off. A number of police were injured. Reports were received later that the soldiers were organising an attack on the police station.

A meeting of railway workers decided to support the lumpers in every way. INTERNATIONAL TROUBLE FEARED, SYDNEY, May 6. The secretary of the Transport Workers’ Federation states that unless a settlement of the Fremantle dispute if? arranged that which the Federation

Is most anxious to avoid may be forced upon it. It is feared that if a settlement is not arrived at the trouble will assume an international aspect, as the Federation is in constant communication with the transport workers of Great Britain. IMMEDIATE SETTLEMENT EXPECTED. FREMANTLE, May 6. A s the result of a conference between the men’s representatives and the Government it i s hoped the wharf trouble will be settled immediately, the withdrawal of the police had a calming effect.

A meeting of two sections of returned s,oldicr s ended in fre 0 fights one section siding with the lumpers and the other with law and order.