DISORDERS IN ITALY

Chronicle (Levin), 17 November 1947, Page 5

DISORDERS IN ITALY

(N.Z.P.A.—

- Reuter ;

CQmmunists Cause Bloodshed and Deaths

Comright)

Received Sunday, 7,45; p.m. LONDON,. Nqw 15, Many were kjlled ox wounded in rifle and grenade ciashes; in Cerignola, reports Reuter 'g Rome correspondent. The whele area around uncontrolled ferment and tiie polic.e have mgently appealed fosr reinforcements. The Assistant Chief ef Police in Cerignola was . grayeiy wounded and four policemen slightly wounded. Crowds wrecked the offices of all the Right Wing parties in Cerignola as well as that of the Christian ' Democrats. The disturhances are spreading- throughout; the whole area, including I'oogia, " Lucera and San Severo. The Assoeiated Press correspondent :n Rome says political violence had spread to Rome when Communist synxpathisers attacked members at a meeting of the Anti- Communist Associatiou of War Prisoners returned from Russia. Leveral were injured before the police stopped the iightirig. After a bomb was • thrown at the Communist headquarters at- Perugia today the -Communists attacked the heajL quarters of the Right Wing Common Alan Alovement and the offices of the newspapers which, they said, had Fascist leanings. The Communist-eontrolled Chamber of Labour ordered a general transpart strike in Rome and by midday virtually no public convevances were moving. The Italian Alinistry of the Interior reported that 10 people were injured at Verona where about 5000 demonstrators wreckfed the Common Alan Party headquarters. Other demonstrators wrecked the Common Man headquarters in Cremona, injured the party 's provincial secretary and also damaged the offfces of two. provincial newspapers, Four truckloads of soldiers were brought into Padua and gunlire and teargas bombs were needed to prevent demonstrators storiiiing the police headquarters, says the Assoeiated' Press' A7'enice correspondent. Pemonstrators wrecked the headquarters of the Common Man Alovement. The British United Press' Rome correspondent says two are reported killed and 11 injured in the Cerignola riots in whieh 5000 participated. Order was restored by police reinforcements.