SOCIALISTS CALL GENERAL STRIKE.
MILITARY PREPARED FOR
ACTION
Received December 7, 5.5 p.m
ROME, December 4
Despite a general strike having been proclaimed by the Socialists, all public services are working normally. Elaborate military preparations have been made to maintain order, including machine-guns in the streets. Cavalry and armoured cars are patrolling the principal thoroughfares. There have been frequent collisions between the strikers and police in Rome, Milan and Turin, six having been .killed and many wounded.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXIV, Issue 17735, 8 December 1919, Page 5
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77SOCIALISTS CALL GENERAL STRIKE. Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXIV, Issue 17735, 8 December 1919, Page 5
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