Berlin's May Day Revels With Machine Guns Shoot on Sight Berlin in State of Siege Rioting Continues Police Use Machine Guns LONDON
The Newcastle Sun · Saturday 4 May 1929 · page 1
A message from Berlin says that intermittent fighting continues in Communist haunts. Demonstrators stoned the police from windows and dropped things on policemen's heads. The police machine-gunned the windows, and two women…
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Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 6 May 1929 · page 3
At Singleton Police Court, Leslie Athol Clegg (alias Smith), aged 18, John Trevane, aged 25: and Reginald John Thomas Hancock (alias James Mitchell), aged 26,…
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Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 6 May 1929 · page 5
Sensational developments have occurred in connection with the death of Miss Olive Branson, a cousin of Sir George Branson, a judge of the King's Bench Division,…
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The Newcastle Sun · Monday 6 May 1929 · page 4
Lam Chee, a barman on the steamer St. Albans, was fined £250. and sentenced to 12 months' gaol by Mr. Gates, S.M., at the Central Police…
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Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 6 May 1929 · page 5
The King will leave Craigwell House, Bognor, for Windsor Castle, on May 17. The journey will be made by motor car, during the morning, Windsor being…
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The Newcastle Sun · Monday 6 May 1929 · page 6
"I was warned against having anything to do with you, but foolishly did not believe it, and I suffered for it. You made me the…
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The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 7 May 1929 · page 5
John Smith, 23. slaughterman, was charged before Mr. Gibson, S.M., at Newcastle Police Court to-day, with having at Newcastle on May 4,…
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Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 7 May 1929 · page 4
Convicted of robbery under arms, John Johnson, aged 28, was sentenced to five years' gaol by Acting-Judge Sheridan, at the Darlinghurst Sessions yesterday. The…
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Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 7 May 1929 · page 4
Hound "Guilty" at the Darlinghurst Sessions in Sydney yesterday, on a charge of having caused bodily harm to Lesie Williams, May Miller, aged 25, was…
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Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 7 May 1929 · page 4
Two young man, Cecil Killingsworth, aged 23, and Philip O'Shea, appeared at the North Sydney Police Court yesterday on a charge of having assaulted a girl of…
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Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 7 May 1929 · page 4
His Honor the Chief Justice of Queensland (Hon. J. W. Blair), who is well-known for his after-dinner witticisms, told a good story at the University…
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Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 7 May 1929 · page 6
A detective is clearing up the mystery of the death of Miss Olive Branson, a cousin of an English High Court Judge, whose body was found in the water in a…
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Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 7 May 1929 · page 4
The State Cabinet to-day gave consideration to the continued assaults on volunteer timber-workers. Mr. Buttonshaw, the Acting-Premier subsequently…
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Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 7 May 1929 · page 4
Arising out of the affray at Newtown on Saturday morning, when a volunteer timber worker was assaulted and a constable knocked out, John Cable, aged 27,…
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Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 7 May 1929 · page 5
The shooting and r[?]oting in Berlin has ceased, but the casualty list has increased. The dead number 23, and the wounded…
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The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 7 May 1929 · page 5
When a large number of miners applied at Cessnock police station this morning for relief orders, they were told by the officer in charge (Sergeant…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →German Police Blamed for Death of N. Z. Journalist Whose Bullet? Shooting of N.Z. Journalist Police Blamed Sequel to May Day Riots LONDON
The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 7 May 1929 · page 1
A message from Berlin states that it now appears that Charles E. McKay, formerly of Wanganui, New Zealand, who was killed during the recent Communist riots on May Day, while he was carrying out his duties as a journalist, was shot by the…
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The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 7 May 1929 · page 5
When Seth Jones. 25. laborer, was charged, at Newcastle Police Court to-day, with having, by wanton driving, collided with a motor…
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Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 8 May 1929 · page 8
Mr. M. C. Nott, P. M., presided at the Cessnock Police Court yesterday. William Sanderson and F. Morrison were produce against for having…
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Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 8 May 1929 · page 7
Arising out of the attack on three motor cars containing official and volunteers employed at Bell and Frazer's timber yards, at Leichhardt, on Thursday last…
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