ISIRIAN COMIN FORM SUPPORTERS

Press, Volume LXXXV, Issue 25924, 3 October 1949, Page 7

ISIRIAN COMIN FORM SUPPORTERS

CAMPAIGN BY JUGOSLAV POLICE REPORTED 'Rec. 11.30 p.m.) LONDON, October 2. Marshal Tito’s police have launched a full-scale drive against Cominform Communists in Istria. says the Trieste correspondent of the London “ObAccording to local reports, the police have arrested, among others, two leaders in the Cominform opposition in Jugoslav territory. Sergio Seggi and Rcmigio Polli. It is possible that the secretary of the Trieste Communist Party, Vittorio Vidali, who is now conducting an open campaign against Marshal Tito, will be tried in his absence as part of a demonstration aimed at a show-down between Marshal Tito and Moscow Communists. There are many signs of intensified t persecutions Italian Communists 'and others in Istria. including an unI confirmed report of the massacre of :50 refugees with tommy-guns and ; hand grenades as they tried to leave [Jugoslavia for Italy, near Gorizia. Seven Killed in U.S. Fire.—Seven of > the 15 occupant? of a Kansas City ' convalescent home, mostly old age pensioners, died when flames swept through the two-storey wooden structure. Five were suffocated, two burned to death, and four others were admitted to hospital with burns. New ; York, September 30.