SOURCE: Wikipedia
Posted on 12/14/2025 3:24:28 PM PST by naturalman1975
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1 January 1915 was a holiday for the mining community of Broken Hill. It was the height of the southern summer and about 1,200 men, women and children were looking forward to a picnic organised by the Manchester Unity Order of Oddfellows. They were to take a train the 15 or so miles from Broken Hill towards Silverton. Unbeknown to the miners and their families, two men had, for varying reasons, prepared an ambush.
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Ambush
As the train, comprising forty open carriages, pulled up a hill two miles outside Broken Hill, it came into sight of the two men at 10.10 am. Gool Mohammed and Mullah Abdullah opened fire. The occupants were badly exposed as the carriages were simply flat bottomed, open wagons with benches for the passengers to sit on.
Gool Mohammed and Mullah Abdullah discharged only half their ammunition rounds (they were wearing homemade bandoliers containing 48 cartridges) into the picnic train. Despite being within easy range, only ten passengers were hit, three of whom were killed, including a seventeen year old girl who had joined the trip with her boyfriend. As the train slowly pulled out of range, a couple of passengers jumped from the train and started back into Broken Hill to raise the alarm.
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That was interesting.
Mohamadians being like Mohamed?
Who knew?
SOURCE: Wikipedia
What’s impressive is the way a posse quickly formed up that outnumbered the gendarmerie. Today’s Australia, where civilians are mostly disarmed, and about to get more so, thanks to the latest incident, would have difficulty deputizing any civilians for backup firepower, let alone be able to outnumber the cops as they did a century ago. Today’s Aussies are Eloi compared to the Morlocks of the Great War.
If it happened in a capital city in Australia, I’d agree.
In somewhere like Broken Hill, there’d still be a lot of people around who owned guns.
mooselimbs doing what mooselimbs do! Kill innocent people.
[If it happened in a capital city in Australia, I’d agree.
In somewhere like Broken Hill, there’d still be a lot of people around who owned guns.]
Keywords would have told us that this was in Australia..
Thanks for posting this...
I use topics - DOWNUNDER being the relevant one here.
I also included the word Australia in the title.
Hmm - now I see the topics I used - and I did use them - aren’t there.
Not sure why that happened, but I did use them. That’s been my normal practice here for over 20 years.
But the reference in the title is definitely still there. I’m going to try and readd the topics.
Seeing the word Australia in the title automatically triggered the story of the beach shooting there this week - didn’t connect it with 110 years ago - you’re right, that was in reference to that long ago...
Here is my article on the same event. Different pictures.
https://www.ammoland.com/2019/07/muslim-attack-on-australian-picnic-train-1915-at-broken-hill/
The two Muslim men heeded the call to war of the Sheikh-ul-Islam,of the Ottoman Empire.
If you want to use “downunder“, make it a keyword, not a topic. Keywords are open form, but topics must be selected from a fixed list.
Yes, and Downunder was on that list for decades. It may not be now, but I got used to using it.
Winston Churchill wrote this in 1899:
How dreadful are the curses which Mohammedanism lays on its votaries! Besides the fanatical frenzy, which is as dangerous in a man as hydrophobia in a dog, there is this fearful fatalistic apathy. The effects are apparent in many countries. Improvident habits, slovenly systems of agriculture, sluggish methods of commerce, and insecurity of property exist wherever the followers of the Prophet rule or live. A degraded sensualism deprives this life of its grace and refinement; the next of its dignity and sanctity. The fact that in Mohammedan law every woman must belong to some man as his absolute property, either as a child, a wife, or a concubine, must delay the final extinction of slavery until the faith of Islam has ceased to be a great power among men.
Individual Moslems may show splendid qualities thousands have become brave and loyal soldiers of the queen: all know how to die: but the influence of the religion paralyses the social development of those who follow it. No stronger retrograde force exists in the world. Far from being moribund, Mohammedanism is a militant and proselytizing faith. It has already spread throughout Central Africa, raising fearless warriors at every step; were it not that Christianity is sheltered in the strong arms of science - the science against which it had vainly struggled - the civilization of modern Europe might fall, as fell the civilization of ancient Rome.
In somewhere like Broken Hill, there’d still be a lot of people around who owned guns.
The same can be said of any big city in the U.S. compared to rural areas.
> Yes, and Downunder was on that list for decades. It may not be now, but I got used to using it.
It’s a topic in the News forum. You posted this in the Chat forum. Different set of available topics.
The battle lasted almost two hours. Towards the end very little shooting came from the rocky outcrop and most of it was off target. At about one o'clock in the early afternoon, "a rush took place to the Turk's stronghold", and they were both found lying on the ground behind the rocks. Both had many wounds; the older man, Abdullah, was dead and Mahomed was severely wounded. Mahomed had been shot in the chest, the right forearm, the left thigh, his left-hand fingers were lacerated, and a bullet had grazed his neck. He was conveyed to the hospital but died shortly afterwards from shock.
Unfortunately, their remains were not fed to pigs and dogs.
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