CLASHES IN ITALY
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Allied Soldiers Involved NUMBER OF CASUALTIES
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Received Monday, 10.20 a.m. ROME, Aug. 25. At least three, including a British Tommy and an American negto soldier, were killed and dozens wounded in street fights in Leghorn and VehiceSj a suburb of Mestre. Both incidents started after arguments over "women. The Mestre riot began, says the newspaper II Messagero, when Italians stripped an Italian girl, who was sitting in a cafe with an Allied escort. It was quelled after British armoured patr'ol intervened. The driver and a woman bystander were killed when one of the armoured cars crashed into a church. Guns were used in' the Leghorn incident when a negro soldier was killed and three soldiers dnd four Italians injured. Several were also wounded during a Venice festival in a free flght between Italians, Allied troops and Spanish sailors.
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Chronicle (Levin), 26 August 1946, Page 5
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