FIGHTING IN FLORENCE
..... ♦- OUTBREAK QUELLED. Australian and N.i£. Cable Association Hoc. March 2, 9.20 a.in. Rome, March I, The Florence outbreak lias been quelled. The Nationalists' marched to the workers' quarters and found the Communists strongly entrenched with barricades, from behind which they fired machine guns, rifles and revolvers. The military surrounded the whole outer area, and succeeded, after fierce fighting, in which eight deaths occurred, in destroying the barricades. They arrested a hundred persons and restored calm. The Nationalists marched in procession through the streets. The populace everywhere, acclaimed the military, whose behaviour was exemplary. The newspapers point out that the outbreaks were local, and not general, bat have re-awakened everywhere the national spirit against communism.
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Bay of Plenty Times, Volume 49, Issue 7634, 2 March 1921, Page 3
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