DISORDER IN ITALY.

Taranaki Daily News, 14 February 1921, Page 5

DISORDER IN ITALY.

TRIESTE NEWSPAPER IN TROUBLE STAFF ARRESTED; OFFICE BURNED By Telegraph.—Press Assn. —Copyright. Received Feb. 13, 5.5 p.m. Rome, Feb. 11. A young carabinior at Trieste was shot through the heart while singing patriotic songs with his fiancee, and Nationalists thereupon assaulted the I alace, in which the Socialist newspaper Illaverator is published, but were twice repulsed. _ , . The building is being transformed into a fortress, in which ammunition has been accumulated. The Red Guard corps doubled the newspaper stall and assisted hurling Bombs until a fire broke out, and six people were killed in the square by falling debris. The police summoned the besieged to surrender. The editor threw out the keys and the police entered and arrested sixty-nine, including the editor and directors, who were manacled hand and foot under the persuasion of butts of rifles. Meanwhile captors and captives were in danger of being roasted alive. me besiegers had emptied benzine stores over all parts of the building, which I burned like a furnace. All, however, escaped, but the fire was ragn'.g for six- ’ tgeu hours. —Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.