FOOD RIOTS IN ITALY
BUILDINGS WRECKED ROME CROWDS RAID BLACK MARKET
Recd. 9 p.m. London, Jan. 9. Reporting fresh outbreaks of violence yesterday throughout southern Italy, from Rome to Sicily, the "Daily Telegraph’s” Rome correspondent says the worst occurred at Catanzaoro, where a mob of unemployed, including ex-servicemen, demanding "bread and work ” besieged the prefecture, which, with other buildings, they afterwards wrecked, tossing furniture and documents into the street. Other outbreaks occurred at Spezzno and Cosenza; also at Palermo, where armed bandits attacked three police barracks. In Rome crowds of workless raided the black 'market, chased the dealers away and seized food.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 90, Issue 8, 10 January 1946, Page 5
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