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BUENOS AIRES STRiICC. RUSSIANS JiEGEQNSIBijE. THE DICTATOR EXPLAINS fflS EOSmOML WOMEN itNTD CBJLDREif WARNED OCT SIiIEETS. Received Jm. 14, 8.30 p.m. Buenos Aires, Jan. 13. General who has asanmed the dictatorship in connretion with the strikes, gavo as a reason for his appointment the Government's inability to cope with the strikers.
Women and children are being warned off the streets of Buenos Aires because the Government is unable to protect them. Newspapers are burned in the streets by mobs which would not permit any to circulate with the exception of the Lavanautdia, a semi-Socialist publication.
Russian j are responsible for the strike. In some instances the soldiers refused to strike.
Serious disorders followed the public funeral of live victims of the strike. The' rioters burned a passenger train and tore up the vracks and thus paralysed the traffic on the Pacific Railway. They buried a Catholic church, also the adjoining school.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assoc. STRIKE SPREADING. BATTLES BETWEEN STRIKERS AND TROOPS, Received Jan. 14, 7.20 pjn, Buenos Aires, Jan. 10. | The strike is spreading. Battles botween the strikers and the Government forces arc Taking in all parts of the city. The cavalry has occupied the meat *»o,rkets to assure the distribution of food and prevent starvation. The Government has mobilised an additional 10,t»00 White Guards, which have been ordered to quell th 9 violence. There have already been 200 casualties.
The strike has been engineered by foreign Bolshevik agitators.—Aus.-NZ. Cable .assoc.
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Taranaki Daily News, 15 January 1919, Page 5
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