CLASH AT CORINTH
RIOT OVER RELIEF FUND i SEVERAL CASUALTIES | "Times" Cables. LONDON, 13th December. "Tho Times" Athens correspondent reports eleven casualties at Corinth! during a collision between rioters and troops and police arising from earthquake public subscriptions for sufferers, from which was realised the sum of £150,000. Tho rioters demanded an immediate distribution. The Govern- i ment claim that temporary housing and other relief to all sufferers had been provided. It was therefore retaining the relief fund as tho nucleus ] for a rebuilding fund. Tho agitators provoked a disturbance. A crowd of sufferers stoned the residences of the' relief committee, and refused to disperse. Troops were summoned. The police fired, and five rioters, four soldiers, a military officer, and the police chief were wounded. Tho ringleaders were arrested and order has been restored.
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Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 132, 15 December 1928, Page 9
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134CLASH AT CORINTH Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 132, 15 December 1928, Page 9
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