“MAFIA” BLAMED FOR MASSACRE
(10 a.m.) LONDON. May 2. Labour organisations in Palermo blame the “Mafia” secret society, which Mussolini claimed he had stamped out, for the massacre yesterday at a village near Palermo of people going to May Day meetings, says Reuter’s correspondent in Palermo. The revised casualty list is eight killed and 29 wounded through! the machine-gun fire from ambush. The police cordoned off the area and detained 30 persons. A general strike is likely to be proclaimed in Sicily as' a protest against the massacre. In Rome today Communist and Right-Wing deputies fought each other in a 15minute melee after the Communists called the RightWing deputies assassins and accused them of organising the Sicilian May Day massacre.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22320, 3 May 1947, Page 5
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