FIERCE AFFRAY
SOCIALISTS AND' FASCISTS
NUMEROUS CASUALTIES,
(Australian Press Association.) (Received 8.32 a.m.) VIENNA, August 19.
Several persons were killed and from 30 to 40 wounded in a fierce clash between Fascists and Socialists at Marein.
The Socialists obtained a permit to demonstrate. The Fascists, known as the ‘ ‘ Helmvvehr. ’ ’ broke their own promise to confine their counter demonstration .to a neighbouring village and poured into Marein in order to break up the 'Socialist meeting. They were stoned by the Socialists and retaliated by the use of rifles and, machine guns.
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Northern Advocate, 20 August 1929, Page 5
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