STERNLY QUELLED.
THE FLORENCE OUTBREAK COMMUNISTS BEATEN (Received 10.35 a.m.) ROME, March 1. The Florence outbreak has been, quelled. Nationalists marched to the workers' quarters and found the Comfunists strongly entrenched with bai'ricadesfi from behind which they fired machine-guns, rifles and revolv-. ers. The military surrounded the whole quarter and succeeded, after fierce fighting in which eight deaths occurred in destroying the barricades. They arrested 100 per-ons and restored calm. The Natonalistg marched in procession through the street'". The populace everywhere acclaimed the military, whose behaviour was exemplary. Newspaper s point out that the outbreaks were local, not general, but re-awakened everywhere the national spirit against the Communists.—
A. and N.Z
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Northern Advocate, 2 March 1921, Page 5
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