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Hokitika Guardian, 2 March 1921, Page 3

VARIOUS CABLED ITEMS

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BY TELEGRAPH —PRESS ASSN., COPYRIGH' • ’ FLORENCE RIOTS. (Received This Day at 9.45 a.in.) ROME, March 1. The Florence outbreak has bee quelled. Nationalists marched to th workers quarters and found the Com nmnists strongly entrenched with barri cades from behind which they fired ma ciiine guns rifles and revolvers. Th military surrounded the whole quarter and succeeded after fierce fighting ii ► which eight deaths occurred in destroy ing the barricades. They arrested on< hundred, persons and restored calm. Th e Nationalists marched in processior through the streets. The popula everywhere acclaimed the military whosi behaviour was exemplary. Th e newspapers point out that the outbreaks were local, not general, but there is reawakened everywhere the national spirjj: against communism. ITALIAN REPORT ON RUSSIA. (Received This Day at 9.45 a.m ) ROME, March 1. The Italian Socialists mission to Russia have reported there is forty-five per cent reduction in the Russian worker production capacity and twenty per cent r e duction in the total production, which convincingly proves the country’s grievous economic condition. The mission believes the revolution Will possibly .eventually triumph and the country will be delivered from the Soviet regime through the trade unions. A COMPROMISE. (Received This Day at 9.45 a.m.) PARIS, March 1. The League of Nations in reply to the American protest regarding mandates, is conciliatory. It foreshadows a solution, by leaving Yap under Japanese mandate and giving America control over the international cable.