MAFIA BLAMED FOR MAY DAY MASSACRE NEAR PALERMO
(Rec. II a.aj.) LONDON, May X. Labour organisations in Jca.enno blame •‘Maim," tne secret society winch Mussolini claimed he had, stamped out, for the massacre yesterday, at a village near Palermo, ot people going to May Day meetings, says ReutOf s Palermo correspondent. Hue casualty list is eight killed and 29 wounded through machine-gun fire from an ambush. The police cordoned off the area audi detained 3U persons. . A .general strike is likely to be proclaimed in'Sicily as a protest against the massacre, in Rome to-day Communist and Right Wing Deputies fought each other in a 15-minute melee after the Communists called Right Wing deputies _ assassins and accused- them of organising the Sicily May Day massacre.
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Evening Star, Issue 26091, 3 May 1947, Page 7
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124MAFIA BLAMED FOR MAY DAY MASSACRE NEAR PALERMO Evening Star, Issue 26091, 3 May 1947, Page 7
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