DISORDER IN VICTORIA
RIOTING BY FIVE HUNDRED FRUIT PICKERS SHOTS FIRED BY POLICE. FIRE HOSES DISPERSE MOB. 3y Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. (Received This Day. 12.40 p.m.) MELBOURNE, This Day. Shots were fired by the police and fire hoses were used in. an attempt to subdue five hundred rioting fruit pickers in Redcliffs. For more than two hours policemen, townspeople and block-holders struggled with the pickers. It is believed a brawl among several pickers led to a riot and a gen? eral fight began. At one stage two thousand peprsons were struggling in the streets. The firing of shots and heavy streams of water from the hoses dispersed the mob. _______
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 13 March 1939, Page 6
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108DISORDER IN VICTORIA Wairarapa Times-Age, 13 March 1939, Page 6
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