SECOND EDITION CLOSING IN ON FIUME.
TRYING TO AVOID BLOODSHED. (Bv Electric Telegraph.—Copyright) Received December-29, 2.15 p.m. . LONDON Doc. 27. , Tlio Royalists %vß cldsing.in 'on;.' Flume:; Some reports from Rome state-that the regulars already occupy the town. There lioa been considerable bloodshed; most'.v around the.barricades of barbed wire and fortified houses, where i the insurgents made determined stands, whiic the Royal-' ists, hamperedj|py Signof'Giolitti's request, to avoid unneSssary bloodshed, were com-' peUed to storo the machine-guns at the point of the bayonet. Had they. been.allowed to use artijj|ery, they vyould hays, taken the' town lew fur tUoy had -overwhelming numbers.—(United Service.) ,: " ■ <*, . .
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIII, Issue 225, 29 December 1920, Page 6
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