COMMUNIST OUTBREAK

Waihi Daily Telegraph, Volume XVIII, Issue 6158, 2 March 1921, Page 2

COMMUNIST OUTBREAK

QUELLED BY MILITARY AFTER FIERCE FIGHTING.. EIGHT PERSONS'KILLED,

(United Service’ Telegrams.) (Received 9.30 a.m.)- ' ROME, March I. The Florence outbreak has been quitted. The Nationalists marched to the workers’ quarters, where they, found the Communists strongly entrenched with barricades, from her hind which they fired with machine guns,'rifles and revolvers. The military surrounded the whole quailteil and succeeded after fierce fighting, in which eight deaths occurred, in. destroying the barricades. '.They arrested 100 persons, and restored calm. The Nationalists marched in procession through the streets, and the, populace everywhere acclaimed the military, whose behaviour was exemplary. ■The newspapers pojint ;oub thajt the outbreaks were local and not general, and had reawakened everywhere a national spirit, against Communism.