STRIKE RIOTS IN ROME.
A STATE OF CIVIL WAR.
[By Eleotbio TBiißOßAPH—Copybiqhi] iUnited Pbbm Association.l (Received 9.25 a.m.) Rome, June 10. The strike has spread to the principal cities. Cavalry dispersed a Socialists' meeting and 170 armed rioters were arrested. The railway was torn up outside Angona. Twenty-five soldiers and policemen were injured at Turin, and one rioter was killed at Florence. The Premier in the Chamber stated that the policemen'at Angona were guilty of firing on demonstrators who weret arrested amid showers of stones. They fired only after some were badly hurt. . '
FURTHER BRUSHES.
(Received 1.45 p.m.) Rome, June 10. The strikers burned the railway station at Imola Fabriano. A mob of strikers to-day at Florence fired upon the troops with revolvers. The soldiers replied, killing a man and wounding others. Tho troops in Rome charged the strikers. Shots were exchanged, and three strikers were wounded and eight soldiers.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIX, Issue 41, 11 June 1914, Page 6
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150STRIKE RIOTS IN ROME. Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIX, Issue 41, 11 June 1914, Page 6
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