Hysterical Scenes
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(Received 30, 10.30 a.m.) BELGRADE, July 29. Police with fixed hayonets -are clearing the streets, where rioti&g broke out after the funerad of M. Varnava. There wero hysterical scenes aB memhers of the youth movement dragged the hearee hearing a glass coffin through kneeliug crowds, fifty xhishope arrayed in gold-embroidered vestments following, but the Govermuent or Catholic Church were not represented. Men and women fainted, A crowd) shouting "Down with .the Government and the police, attempted to penetrate the centre of the city, An unauthorised dglegation tried to join the procession, starting a fight. The police charged with batonsv and thousands of spectators fled wildly. There were sixmlar scehes at Slavia, where many were injured. The xoads leading to Saint Sava Church were guarded by artillery and cavalry, Serajevo messagea state that over, 100 were injured in rioting after church memorial services for M. Varnava. ;
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 165, 30 July 1937, Page 5
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