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...pangs of hunger but a will to have nice things prompted 10,000 New Zealanders to stage a demonstration which became a series of bloody riots in Auckland last week. Time after time the mob swept down Queen Street, smashing the windows of smart shops right & left, seized $350,000 worth of nice things...
...Never in all New Zealand has such a thing happened before!" puffed the Mayor of Auckland after 48 hours of civic chaos. "If things go on like this I shall positively be obliged to read the Riot...
Young women of the most brazen sort, Auckland reporters agreed, were ringleaders in turning an orderly procession of jobless men down Queen Street into a wild scramble of pillage. One of the hussies wore a sweater?the reporters were sure. Beyond that they only knew that the young women placed themselves unexpectedly at the head of the procession and began throwing stones into the window of a jewelry store. Four hussies were seen to escape with skirtsful of jewelry down a side street. By that time their feminine example had spurred the men to some really heavy looting. Auckland police...
When a British ship brought news of the "outrage" to Auckland, shocked New Zealand editors roasted the French as a race of coldblooded, unfeeling frogs...
...Geddes, son of Rt. Hon. Sir Auckland Geddes, onetime British Ambassador to the U. S. (1920-24), was discovered incognito working in an oil refinery at Martinez, Calif...