"We were on leave in Melbourne. We would have been in civil dress, we wouldn't have been obviously soldiers and I suppose we were doing what you might call a pub crawl walking up Collins Streets from one hotel to another and a friend of mine who was with us, a big robust chap often voiced his views on the subject of people selling communist newspapers in the street. He walked up to a chap who was selling the Tribune and just simply snatched his bundle of newspapers, threw them in the gutter, gave him a backhander and we strolled on as if nothing had happened. I suppose the communist who was selling the newspapers was accustomed to that sort of treatment."

SERGEANT JACK GALLAWAY