Greek Farmers Riot For Day
(N.Z. Press Association —Copyright)
SALONIKA (Greece), July 11.
About 5000 farmers, discontented about the price of Government-sub-sidised wheat, turned a rally into a bloody riot yesterday. More than 300 persons were injured in the day-long melee, United Press International reported.
Police used bullets and tear-gas to break up the riot, which began when the farmers defied local restrictions and proceeded on tractors from the outskirts of this port city into the centre of town.
The farmers, using fists, throwing rocks and other debris, overwhelmed the police at one point and the
Army was called in to assume strategic posts in the city. Soldiers did not have to intervene in the fighting.
More than 125 of the injured required admission to hospital. Fifty-nine of those admitted were policemen, and another six were civilians wounded by bullets fired by police in efforts to make the mobs disperse. Two of the six were in serious condition.
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Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31109, 12 July 1966, Page 17
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