ITALIANS AND SERBS

Greymouth Evening Star, 30 May 1928, Page 5

ITALIANS AND SERBS

RIOTS AT BELGRADE APOLOGY RESENTED (Austraiiau Press Association.) (By Cable—Press Assn.—Copyright.) (Received May 30, midday.) BELGRADE, May 29. In addition to a hundred and fifty arrests, the police, using swords and rifle butts, severely injured fifty students in anti-Italian demonstrations late last night. Italy’s demand for an apology provoked the crowd to an attempt to storm the Ministry of the. Interior. The police and military were soon involved in a, general melee. Some demonstrators built barricades from which they were ejected early this morning" There were many sore heads before the streets were cleared. Almost simultaneously with the Vienna report that Premier Mussolini had demanded from Belgrade immediate satisfaction and reparation, came a. report .from the same source that the Foreign Minister (M. Marinkovitch) had sent a senior official to the Italian Embassy to express Yugoslavia’s regret and promise later an official written apology. * Belgrade students sought to prevent the police entering the Corps house. Constables, supported by mounted Gendarmerie, stormed the high steps. Several gendarmes and four students were seriously injured, and twenty-six slightly injured. in bloody hand-to-hand fighting.