THE ARGENTINE.

Press, Volume LV, Issue 16421, 15 January 1919, Page 7

THE ARGENTINE.

SERIOUS STRIKE DISORDERS. PITCHED BATTLES RAGING. (By Cable.—Presa Association.—Copyright.) (Renter's Telegrams.) (Received January 14th, 7.20 p.m.) BUENO AYRESj January 10. The strike is spreading. Battles betweeu tae strikers and tuo Government forces are raging in all pai-ts of the city. Cavalry has occupied the meat markets to assure the distribution of food and prevent starvation. The Government has mobilised an additional 10,000 White which have been ordered to quell violence at any cost. There have already been two hundred casualties. The 6tiike has been engineered by foreign Bolshevists and agitators. BOLSHEVISTS RESPONSIBLE. (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.) (Received January 14th, 8.20 p.m.) BUENOS Ai'KiiS, January 13. General Dellepane, who has assumed the dictatorshix» in connexion with the strikes, gave tlie reason of his appointment as the Government's inability to copo with the strikers. Women and chiidrani were warned off the streets of Buenos Ayres because tho Government was unable to protect them. Newspapers were burnt in the streets by mobs which would not permit any to circulate except a semi-Socialist publication. Russians are responsible for the Btrike. In some instances the soldiers refused to strike. Serious disorders followed tho public funeral of five victims of the strike. Rioters burned a passenger train and tore up the tracks, thus paralysing traffic on the Pacific railway. They burned the Catholic Church and an adjoining school. ,