FLORENCE CALM
THE OUTBREAK QUELLED. MILITARY ACCLAIMED. REVIVAL OF NATIONALISM (Australian and N.Z. Cable Assn.) Received March 2, 9.30 a.m. ROME, March 1. The Florence outbreak has been quelled. The Nationalists marched on the workers’ quarters and found the Communists strongly entrenched with barricades, from behind which they fired machine guns, rifles and revolvers. The military'surrounded the whole quarter and succeeded, after fierce fighting, in which eight deaths occurred, in destroy,ing the barricades. They arrested 100 persons and restored calm. The Nationalists then marched in procession through the streets and the populace everywhere acclaimed the whose behaviour was exemplary. The newspapers point out that ithe outbreaks were local, not general, but had re-awakened everywhere the national spirit against Communism.
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Waikato Times, Volume 94, Issue 14603, 2 March 1921, Page 5
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119FLORENCE CALM Waikato Times, Volume 94, Issue 14603, 2 March 1921, Page 5
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