ITALY.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLI, Issue XLI, 14 February 1921, Page 5

ITALY.

SERIOUS DISORDERS

VIOLENT SCENES.

8Y CABLE—PRESS ASBOf!IATinN-COPYEIGHT (Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.)

ROME, Feb. 11

A .young carabinier at, Trieste was shot through the heart while singing patriotic songs ; with his fiancee, and Nationalists thereupon assaulted the Palace, in which the Socialist newspaper Dlayerator is published, but were twice "repulsed.

The building is .being transformed into a fortress, in wbich ammunition has been accumulated. The Red Guard •corps doubled the newspaper staff and ■assisted in -hurling bombs. A fire' broke out, an<j six people were killed in the square by falling debris. The police the besieged to surrender. The editor threw out the keys and the police entered and arrested sixtyrnine, including the editor and directors, who were manacled hand and foot under the persuasion of butts of rifles. ."''"'

Meanwhile captors and captives wete in danger of being roasted alive. The besiegers had emptiea benzine stores over all parts of the "building, which "burned like a; furnace. AH, however, escaped, but the fire was raging for 16 hours. ' /