STREET FIGHTING

Dominion, Volume 26, Issue 124, 18 February 1933, Page 11

STREET FIGHTING

Red Menace in Rumania TROOPS FIRE VOLLET Armed Strikers Dispersed (By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyrlgm . (Received Feb. 17, 8.30 p.m.) London, Feb. 17. The situation in Rumania is apparently highly inflammable. It is stated there is a considerable Communist movement throughout the country which King Carol is determined to suppress. Fighting at Bucharest resulted in the death of seven people, and scores were wounded. Seven hundred and fifty strikers will be court-martialled. The most dramatic incident was when a strike leader, brandishing a blazing torch, was trying to encourage

his comrades, who were armed witli steel rods, revolvers, and other weapons, to face advancing troops, who fired a volley. The leader fell dead. The trouble arose through 4000 railway strikers barricading themselves in the railway workshops as a protest against the Government’s refusal to abolish martial law. The railwaymen also demanded the release of over a thousand Communists arrested earlier in the day in a round-up following King Carol’s decree declaring all Communist organisations illegal. All the Rumanian garrisons are now mobilised on a war footing. The Government’s position hourly is becoming more difficult. The Royal Rumanian train has arrived from Belgrade with King Carol’s mother, Queen Marie. CLASHES IN GREECE Seven Killed; Many Wounded (Received Feb. 17, 11.30 p.m.) Athens, Feb. 17. Clashes between the police and Communists occurred at Salonica. Seven were killed and 100 wounded. The worst clash occurred when the police raided a Communist club. The police were compelled to use revolvers, causing a rush to the staircase, which collapsed.