VENICE CANALS.
MOTOR-BOATS APPEAR.
GONDOLIERS IN PROTEST. (BY CABLE-PRESS ASSOCIATIOX COPYRIGHT J (AUSTRALIA* ASD U.S. CABLE ASSOCIATIOX.) (Received June 23rJ, 5.5 p.m.) ROME, Juno 22. Gondoliers in Venice made an angry demonstration against the authorities for allowing motor-launches to ply on the canals. The gondoliers surrounded the motor stations, preventing tho boats moving. They also wrecked tho landing stage. Subsequently 300 gondoliers went in a procession up tho Grand Canal to tho Town Hall, where an t-normous crowd shouted, "Down with the motor-boats t*'
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Press, Volume LX, Issue 18107, 24 June 1924, Page 7
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