FIFTEEN PERSONS KILLED
WARSAW RIOTING FIGHT DURING FUNERAL WARSAW, April IG. Pi I'teen persons were killed and at least 100 injured in a riot during a funeral procession in Lwow to-day. The bloody light occurred between police and mourners for an unemployed man who was killed in a demonstration last Tuesday. Previously, the police had designated the route which the funeral was to follow to the cemetery, but, without informing authorities, the dead man’s friends decided to bury the, body oi their comrade in another .cemetery. Accordingly, the funeral procession suddenly changed its route and the police interposed. The crowd refused to obey the police commands to change the direction of march, and the police, outnumbered, produced weapons. The crowd became furious at the sight of the firearms and a pitched battle resulted.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19023, 25 May 1936, Page 10
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