COST OF LIVING RIOTS.
:. LONDON, July 6. I The "Daily Chronicle's" Milan correspondent states that the Governrilent is trying to cope with a violent popular rebellion against dear living, particularly in Tuscany, Romagna and the Marches by .establishing State control. Hitherto the joint profits of producers and middlemen have been anything up to 400 per cent. The authorities at. Rome enforced a reduction to 50 per cent on foodstuffs and 25 per cent on clothing. The State proposes to distribute food over the country through .a, committee, limiting trades.men's profits to 10 per cent. . There was wholesale pillage at Flqrence, Leghorn and Bologna. A hundred rioters were wounded at Florence, several were killed, and a thousand were arrested.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume XXXIX, Issue 9652, 8 July 1919, Page 8
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