TRAGIC CONFLICT
FOLLOWS CHURCH FESTIVAL
..(B» Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) (Aaotralian and N.Z. Gable Association.) LONDON, June 16. The Daily Express Belgrade correspondent reports that a church festival in that city developed into a most tragic conflict. A crowd was dancing outside the church, when an enraged peasant fatally stabbed nn onlooker on the grounds that he was showing improper attentions to his wife. Instantly sides were taken and a tierce fight began, in which tho murderer's friends, armed with revolvers and knives, prevented pursuit. The police found twenty persons killed and fifty seriously injured.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LVI, 18 June 1924, Page 2
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93TRAGIC CONFLICT Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LVI, 18 June 1924, Page 2
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