ANTI-COMMUNIST RIOT
Istanbul Incident (7.30 p.m.) ISTANBUL. Dec. 4. A mob of 20.000 persons in a sudden, violent. anti-Communist demonstration wrecked two newspaper plants and at least two book stores. Soldiers and hundreds of police patrolled the city, early this afternoon, because the throng, composed mostly of University and High School students, had not dispersed. The students, after wrecking newspaper plants and a Russian bookstall, traversed the main streets shouting: “Kill the Communists,” “Down with Communism.” Passing the American consulate they cried: “Long live America.’’ They saluted outside the British Embassy'. Police and rhilitary blocked the approach to the Russian Embassy.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CLVIII, Issue 23376, 6 December 1945, Page 5
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101ANTI-COMMUNIST RIOT Timaru Herald, Volume CLVIII, Issue 23376, 6 December 1945, Page 5
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