DISORDER IN BRISBANE
EARLY CLOSING OF HOTELS UNPOPULAR. SOLDIERS ON LEAVE CLASH WITH POLICE. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) BRISBANE. October 27. The enforced closing of hotel bars at 8 p.m. instead of 11 p.m. led Io a disturbance in Brisbane on Saturday night when soldiers on leave and also former A.I.F. men clashed x with the uniformed and military police. A thousand civilians participated in a raid on one hotel, from which they secured a barrel of beer, resulting in a melee during which fists were used freely.
Reinforcements of military police arrived and the chief offenders were escorted from the scene. The police dispersed the civilians.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 28 October 1940, Page 6
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106DISORDER IN BRISBANE Wairarapa Times-Age, 28 October 1940, Page 6
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