RIOTS IN FLORENCE

Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 134, 2 March 1921, Page 5

RIOTS IN FLORENCE

SANGUINARY FIGHTING BETWEEN NATIONALISTS AND SOCIALISTS. (Rec. March 1, 10.30 p.m.) Milan, March 1. There has been an aggravated. renewal of the disturbances in Florence. _ Tho Socialists erected barricades, resulting in conflicts with the troops, who stormed the barricades, using machine-guns. They have now posted field-guns in the streets. There was sanguinary fighting between the Nationalists and Communist factions on Sunday in many towns, especially in Florence where a bomb was thrown amidst carabinieri during a patriotic procession. Twenty-six were wounded. 'I he carabinieri slew the driver of n train for refusing to remove his cap as the wounded were passing. This was the signal for savage excesses, the Nationalists looting, wrecking, and igniting Socialists’ buildings, and murdering the secretary of the Railwaymen’s Union. The electrical workers plunged the city in darkness. Hotels, restaurants, and places of amusement were closed. Chvalry andi armoured cars patrol tho streets. Students at Palermo, from the roofs of tho university, mined tiles on the heads of the troops. The latter ascended a church steeple, and fusilladed the students, killing six—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.