PRECAUTIONS IN ROME
British Embassy Guarded
(Rec. 12.10 aun.) ROME, November 6. Thousands of university and high fchool students left their classes today and marched into the centre of Rome shouting anti-British and anti-Tito slogans.
They carried placards demanding the return of the Trieste State to Italy. One placard said: “The blood spilt for Trieste is sacred.” Big forces of steel-helmeted armed riot police, riding in scarlet jeeps and supported by men with fire hoses, guarded the British and American Embassies.
Similar police precautions against students’ reprisals for the killing of two Italians by police in Trieste yesterday were taken around the British end American Consulates in Milan, Venice. Genoa, and Naples. Crowds of Italian students broke the of a British-American hotel in Rome and tried to break into the British Council building. ( Italian riot police halted them. Last March several neo-Fascist students broke into this building and set fire to the library bdokshelves during “Trieste for Italy” demonstrations. Those arrested were later acquitted for lack of evidence.
About 13,000 took part in the demonstration today, police said.
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Press, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 27191, 7 November 1953, Page 7
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