Evening star., 1946-07-01
|Yanks Halt Mob
Attacking Red
|0fficein Trieste
Rioting Continues
For Second Day;
200, 900 on Strike
BY the Sssccioted Press

w
bines broke up tonight mob
attacking Communist party
headquarters as rioting ragged
through this disputed Adriatic
port city for the second success
sive day. There was no sign that
the violence was subsiding.
At least five American soldiers had
been wounded in disturbances yes
terday.
Six men and woman were shot
today in riots between pro-Slav and
anti-Slav groups in this city, claimed
both by Italy and Yugoslavia. Two
of the wounded were hurt seriously.
All were members of labor organiza-
tlons which struck in protest to what
they claimed were Rightist attacks
on Communist, labor and Slav estab-
lishments yesterday. Some 100000
workers were reported out.
Mood Grows Uglier.
The tight strike continued in Tri-
este and the mood of the Italian and
Yugoslav sympathizers appeared to
be growing uglier
The Americans were called out
along with their British allies to
help the hard-pressed civil police
of Venezia- -Giulia. They fired sew
eral volleys into the air before the
attackers, fiinging stones and bot
ties. were dispersed from the Com
munist headquarters.
One man in the mob was shot and
wounded when he stoned an Ameri-
can jeep loaded with military police.
Comrades carried him away.
1t was not Immediately clear who
fired the first shots causing the
seven other casualties. The civil
police of Venezia- -Giulia denied they
had fired upon the crowd.
The incident occurred In the
Piazza Goldoni when a group OF
Italian youths attacked an Office of
the Communist newspaper II La
voratore. Newspapers We're hurled
from trucks.
Aid Newspapermen.
A crowd of striking laborers re-
sponded, charging to the defense of
the newspaper Shots were fired
during the melee
One person was run over by q
jeep, driven by a Venezia Giulia
civil policeman.
Throughout the day. italian
youths attacked stands and trucks
carrying the Communist newspaper
which was published with this head
line:
After one year. of Allied admin
istration, Fascist terror reopens In
Trieste
The general strike, tying up
traffic and closing public establish
ments, extended beyond the city and
into provincial areas.
Crowds congregated In many places
in Trieste, and although no grave
incidents were reported, authorities
expressed fear that trouble might
break out at any time.
During the night bands of youths
armed with iron bars invaded %
homes inhabited by Slavs in the
central part of the city and destroyed
furniture.
One Man Killed.
A lone fatality occurred, police
said, when an italian dock worker
was stabbed to death by band of
armed youths.
A communique issued by Allied au-
thorities said the four Allied officers
and soldiers were seriously injured
when hand grenade exploded un-
derneath their jeep. Two of the
men were Americans and two Brit
ons. Their names were withheld for
the time being.
Two other American officers and
three American soldiers were less
seriously hurt during the rioting.
The communique said the jeep
was blown up when a unit of Allied
troops answered a call to disperse a
crowd which had gathered in the
street. A grenade, thrown from the
window of a nearby building, rolled
under the jeep and exploded.
Groups on Strike
Organizations participating in the
Strike call included the Communist
party, the Italian General Labor
Confederation, the United Syndi-
Gates and the Italo-Slav anti
Fascist youth organization. Most OF
them have both Italian and Yugo-
slav members.
Yesterdays rioting broke out. po-
lice said, when group of "Slav
Communists" attacked so partici-
pants in the aronnd-Italy bicycle
race. Many Trieste Italians had
assembled to welcome the cyclists
and police said the i5lavs, evidently
believing that the demonstration
might have political implications
attached the riders with sticks and
stones to prevent the welcome
Trieste, claimed by both Yugo-
slavia and Italy, is one of the key
issues now confronting the Big -Four
foreign ministers in Paris, where
the city's future was to be discussed
again today.
Twenty persons were injured, one
man possibly fatally, and at least
Is Offices and stores were wrecked
before British and American troops
were summoned to help police quell
the rioting.
Three officers and two enlisted
men of the 1st battalion, 349th Regi-
ment, 88th Division, were injured
when the grenade exploded neal
their jeep as they sought to break
up a crowd in midtown Trieste.
Transit Strike Ties Up
San Francisco Area