BATTLE IN MILAN
STRIKERS AND-MILITIA LONDON, March 7. Fierce fighting, between strikers aided by partisans and tfie Fascist militia, has raged in Milan in the last 24 hours, says the "Daily Express" correspondent on tile Italian frontier. The battle began in a working-class district when Fascists tried to arrest strikers. Many were killed on both sides. The authorities tried to get the trams running through the paralysed city. Strikers overturned the trams. /The German commander in northern Italy arrived in Milan in an attempt to restore order, and proclaimed a state of siege. Workers in the Breda Pirelli plants barricaded themselves in the factories. Saboteurs are being paraded through the streets before being shot without trial. The situation in Turin is reported to be nearly as bad. The strike is spreading to many other towns.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXVII, Issue 58, 9 March 1944, Page 5
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