BRAWLS IN ITALY
MANY CASUALTIES REPORTED DISPUTES OVER WOMEN ROME, Aug. 25. At least three, including a British Tommy and an American negro soldier, were killed and dozens wounded in street fights in Leghorn and in Venice’s suburb of Mestre. Both incidents started after arguments over women.
The Mestre riot began, says the newspaper II Messagero, when Italians tripped an Italian girl who was sitting in a cafe with an Allied soldier. It wfis quelled after a British armoured / patrol intervened. The driver and a
woman bystander were killed when one of the armoured cars crashed into a church.
Guns were used in the Leghorn incident, when a negro soldier was killed. Three soldiers and four Italians were injured. Several were also wounded during a Venice festival in a free fight between Italians, Allied troops, and Spanish sailors.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 26241, 27 August 1946, Page 6
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