PITCHED BATTLE

Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 40, 17 February 1933, Page 8

PITCHED BATTLE

SOLDIERS AND STRBKERS

BLOODSHED IN RUMANIA}

(Received February 17, a' p.m.) BUCHAREST, February 16Four were killed ana thiiftjr-one.in* jured in a battle between sdlfliers ancl railway strikers at the xail^fay work* shops, where four thousand - strikers had barricaded themselves w;as a protest against the Government's refusal to abolish martial law. Tj.e railwaymen also demanded the '/release ofl over a thousand Communitits arrested, earlier in the day in a riound^up following King Carol's dee? cc declaring all Communist organisations illegal. The strikers surrendered and -were arrested. :

Owing to the decline .'in trafSc, tb.% * morning trips on the Hr'itaitai bus m** j vice will be discontinued at the end of | this month. ;