PALERMO TRAGEDY
Italian Troops Fire On Rioters (Received October 20, 7.30 p.m.) LONDON, October 20. Reuter’s Rome correspondent reports that 10 persons were killed and 104 wounded during rioting yesterday at Palermo, the main city of Sicily, when Italian troops fired on a crowd of workers demanding better living conditions.
The Italian Government issued a statement declaring that the rioting was instigated by seditious elements (probably meaning Sicilian separatists), who egged on the demonstrators. Shots were tired at army detachments, which compelled the return of tire. Reuter’s Rome correspondent points out that for some time the Sicilian separatist movement has been exploiting the island’s growing Economic difficulties in order to assist the agitation for its complete detachment from Italy.
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Dominion, Volume 38, Issue 23, 21 October 1944, Page 7
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