Police arresting one of the demonstrators. August 3,1972.Roderick John MacRae
Commonwealth police use bolt cutters to release an anti-conscription demonstrator from the chains which shackled him to colleagues in a protest march yesterday.
Seven men and a girl were chained together with a 100ft one-eighth-inch chain from Sydney University,where the march started,up Broadway to the corner of George and Liverpool Streets.
They were followed by 14 demonstrators,holding an anti-conscription banner and handing out leaflets.
Police used a key to unlock one demonstrator from the chain,and arrested him while the rest gave clenched-fist salutes and chanted slogans.
About 25 police were waiting at the Town Hall,but the demonstration was orderly although some demonstrators demanded to be arrested.
One of the five arrested,who was wanted on a warrant for failure to attend a National Service medical,was released on $500 bail.
The four others were released on $200 bail. All five will appear in Central Court of Petty Sessions today.
Among those arrested was Robert Wilton,son of the recently retired chairman of the Chiefs of Staff committee,General Sir John Wilton.