== 9 September 1911 ==
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'''A POPULAR OUTCRY''' When the news of this dreadful encounter reached Melbourne there at once arose a tremendous popular outcry for the adoption of most strenous measures to bring the outlaws into subjection and to avenge the men who had been slain. But the police force was found very indifferently equipped for organised warfare upon a force of even four hostile men. They had no firearms, to speak of. The revolvers then used by the police were of obsolete pattern. A few rifles were got from the military authorities but these also were obsolete and old fashioned. Finally the Government invested in shot guns, and armed the police with these. Then began one of the greatest man hunts known in the history of the world.