ITALY.

Timaru Herald, Issue 170295, 13 August 1920, Page 7

ITALY.

CAMPAIGN OF INCENDIARISM,

BLOWING UP MUNITIONS,

By Electrio Telegraph—Copyright. AUMrnnan aud. TV/,. «JaUi« jiaiu -Uecaived 8.30 p.m., August 12. Th . LONIJN, August 11. lhe , Daily Chronicle's" i.iiian correspondent reports that an incendiary eainpaigu on an unprecedented scale is proceeding jii jill parts of Italy, c, . iU 'K c military powder magazine in oiui (jervwlio was blown up snaKine- the C 1^ 0f - F !? rellce - Some bodies f e ll » lled «• wJe. The death roll is not, jet ascertainable. Orel- a hundred were sent to hospital. Many were uounaeci by falling bombs. Many per- ®°"~\ " + j !° vrei ' & fire in the streets fir j lemsc l ve ® b 7 immersion in the public fountains. flttem P fc to blow up a magazine at Mugnano, Tuscany, by setting lire to adjacent woods failed. Armed bands assailed the magazines at Piacenza, Catania, The miEtarv employed machine guns in. a night-lono-engagement, driving off the attacked at daylight. • Four nres which occurred at Genoa, Parma, Tiiesto and Sail .Antonio caused a, quarter of a. million sterling damage including much storesT ' Other serious incendiary damage in and south of Italy is reported, including outbreaks in eight neio-h-" bourmg Tillages, all of which were visible simultaneously.