Astonishing Affray.
IN ITALIAN CHAMBER. A PITCHED BATTLE. CATHOLICS "SOCIALISTS. [By Cable.—Preu Anoclation.—Copyright.| Rome, Feb. 5. Au astonishing affray took place in the Italian Chamber. Two bands each of about 60 strong, rushed each other, exchanging kicks, fisticuffs, and hurling inkstands and breaking tables. The fight lasted fifteen minutes.
The President finally suspended the sitting. The affray commenced by a Socialist calling a Catholic Deputy a buffoon, and the Catholic Parcj strike-breakers in the recent strike. The Catholic Party retorted, charging the Socialists .with accepting a bribe of half a million from a Turin manufacturer. The exchange of insults led to a conflict between two Deputies, which led to 'a general fight.—(A. and N.Z.) [The Catholic Party came into being as a recognised party a few months ago when the Vatican raised the ban nitherto existing against Catholics taking part in. politics. The Italian official Socialist Part£ is described as a purely Bolshevist organisation, following a doctrine ol purest Leninism. Their .success in the elections was attributed to apathy on the part of the great body of moderate electors, a supposition strengthened by the fact that the party claims only 60,000 adherents out of a population ot 40,000,000.] _
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume X, Issue 46, 6 February 1920, Page 5
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