STREET FIGHTING

Taranaki Daily News, 18 February 1933, Page 7

STREET FIGHTING

ROUMANIA IN A TURMOIL

ANTI-COMMUNIST DECREE

GOVERNMENT’S DIWIOUM'Y

VIOLENCE OF STRIKERS

ALL GARRISONS MOBILISED

By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright. Ree. 10 p.m. London, Feb. 17. The situation in Roumania is apparently highly inflammable. It is stated there is a considerable Communist movement throughout the country which King Carol is determined to suppress. Fighting at Bucharest resulted in seven deaths and scores of injuries. A total of 750 strikers will be court-martialled. The most dramatic incident was a strike leader brandishing a blazing torch and trying to encourage his comrades, who were armed with steel rods, revolvers and other weapons, to face advancing troops, who fired a volley. The leader fell dead. All Roumanian garrisons are now mobilised on a war footing. The Government’s position is hourly .becoming more difficult. The police repulsed a Communist "t--tack on the Royal Roumanian train when it arrived with King Carol’s. mother, Queen Marie, from Belgrade. Fifty arrests were made. OUTBREAK AT SALONIKA. POLICE-COMMUNIST FIGHT. Rec. 10 p.m. Athens, Feb. 17. Police and Communists dashes occurred at Salonica to-day. Seven were killed and 100 wounded. The worst trouble occurred when the police raided a Communist club. The police were compelled to use revolvers, causing a rush to tbe staircase, which collapsed. Four were killed and 31 injured in a battle between soldiers and railway strikers at the railway workshops, where 4000 strikers had barricaded themselves as a protest against the Government’s refusal to abolish martial law. They also demand the release of over 1000 Communists who were arrested earlier in. the day in a round-up following King Carol’s decree declaring all Communist organisations illegal. The strikers surrendered and were arrested.