RIOT IN TRIESTE

Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 120, 14 February 1921, Page 5

RIOT IN TRIESTE

NATIONALISTS MAKE ASSAULT ON SOCIALIST STRONGHOLD VIOLENT CONFLICT ENDS IN SURRENDER By Telegraph—Press Association-Copyright. (Rcc. February 13, 5.5 p.m.) Rome. February 11. A young carabinier at Trieste was shot through the heart while singing patriotic songs with his fiancee. Nationalists thereupon assaulted the palace in which the Socialist newspaper “Il Lavoratore was published, but were twice repulsed, the building having been transformed into a fortress, in which ammunition was accumulated. A Red Guard corps doubled the strength of the staff and in hurling bombs until a fire broke out. Six people were- killed in the square by falling debris. The police summoned the besieged t surrender, and the editor threw out the keys. The police then entered and arrested 69, including cd ? tor . and tors who were manacled hand and foot, under the persuasion of the butts o “Meanwhile captors and captives were in danger of being roasted alive, for the besiegers- had poured benzine over all parts of the 'building, which burned like_ a furnace. All, however, escaped. the hie was raging for sixteen hours.—Aus.-N. A Cable Assn.