RIOTS IN ITALY.

Sun (Christchurch), Volume I, Issue 107, 11 June 1914, Page 7

RIOTS IN ITALY.

CAVALRY CALLED OUT.

SOLDIERS AND POLICE INJURED. RAILWAYS TORN UP. WHOLESALE ARRESTS OF RIOTERS. By Cable. — Press Association. — Copyright. • (Received June 11, 9.25 a.m.) ROME, June 10. The strike has spread to the principal cities, and the cavalry have everywhere dispersed Socialist meetings. Some 170 -armed rioters have been arrested. The railway has been torn up outside Angona. Twenty-five soldiers and a policeman have been injured at Turin, and one rioter was killed at Florence. The Premier in the Chamber stated • that a policeman at Ancona had been guilty of firing on the demonstrators and had been arrested. The police were subjected to showers of stones and the man fired only after some of his comrades had been badly hurt. f A cable message yesterday stated: — ■ An Anarchist and-Socialist demonstra : , tion at Ancona, as a protest .against the prohibition of anti : militarist meetings, . was suppressed by the police, of *whom . seventeen were injured by: stones, several seriously. The police fired oh the . mob, killing , A general strike in Rome followed as a protest. Traffic is • paralysed, and the newspapers have ceased publication.]