Evening star., 1960-07-07
ROME

OOHtInue0 from rlrSL rage
fist fights in Parliament's
Chamber of Deputies.
The rioting produced another
turbulent parliamentary ses-
sion today, in the Senate, as
Socialists and Com m unists
howled protests against police
intervention in the Red-led
demonstrations. Charges by In
terror Minister Giuseppe Spa
taro that the Communist Party
had planned and provoked the
disorders brought a rising
angry clamor from the leftist
Senators.
The street fighting flared in
Rome when police tried to break
up an estimated 10000 World
War II partisans and their
supporters who massed in de-
flance of a police ban. A Com
muniSt-led partisan organiza-
tion called the rally to protest
plans of the italian Social
Movement (MSD, Italy's Fascist
Party, to hold a national con-
greSS.
MuSSOlini's Killer Hurt
Mr.. Spataro said that among
those injured in the street riot
ing last night was Communist
Deputy Walter Audisio, who
killed Benito Mussolini after
his capture by partiSans while
trying to fee into Switzerland.
Fighting ragged along a mile
long southern district between
the Gate of st. Paul and the
Tiber River. Wearing helmets
and carrying machineguns, the
police charged with clubs and
fire hoses and finally used tear
gas. Mounted police brandish-
ing swords and long rubber
clubs rushed the mob of rioters,
who fought back with stones
and fence posts ripped from a
children's park.
Tourists Run for Cover
Foreign tourists caught in
the melee ran for cover in a
post Office and the Protestant
cemetery where the poets Keats
and Shelley are buried. Order
finally was restored after three
hours in the area at the foot
of the historic Aventine Hill.
At least $50 rioters were ar
rested, police said.
When news of the rioting
reached Parliament, Commu-
mist and Socialist deputies
squared off against Christian
Democrat supporters of the
Tambroni government Scuf-
fling went on until after mid
night. BriefcaseS, papers and
inkwellS flew along with fists
amid the din of riot sirens
summoning more ushers to
restore order. Four deputies
required medical attention and
six ushers were injured, two
seriously.
The wave of rioting-the
worst in Italy in years-began
last week when Communicated
demonstrators blocked Fascist
attempts to convene in Genoa
RiOting in Other Cities
Other riots broke out in
Milan, Turin and Reggie Emf
liza. About 500 persons have
been hurt in the street clashes.
Interior Minister spataro
charged the Communists delib-
erately fomented the riots, US
ing the Fascist congress as an
excuse, in an attempt to take
over power in Italy.
Some observers in Rome think
Moscow, encouraged by the sue
cess of the recent riots in Ja-
pan, ordered the Italian Com
muniSt Party to return to the
same tactics of street fighting
that it tried unSuccessfully in
Italy in 1947 and 1948.
A series of labor agitations,
although not directly linked to
the Communist-Fascist strife, |
could be part of an overall |
Communist strategy.
Gas workers in all major
Italian cities are now striking.
communicated railway workers
have called a 24-hour strike for
July 20.
Earlier this week two persons
were killed and many injured
IN a general strike in Licata,
Sicily. Last month many were
hurt in riots during another
general strike in Palermo. The
Sicilian strikes were called by
Communist and non-Commu-
mist unions to protest hard
times and unemployment on
the Mediterranean island.