The Archive · 1927

Republicans Forming Guards

Thousands of persons are visieing! the seenes of the fighting, particularly the ruins of the Palace of Justice, which a one-time splendid building is now a deplorable spectadle of desolation. Practically on the foundations remain. The window-frames were burned in the riots and only the bare ironwork of the right cupola is standing. All the artistic ironwork in Renaissance style is twisted, while within nuthing remains but blackened and broken walls and heaps of plaster and rubble, Nothing of the furniture was salvaged, while remnants the valuable judicial records are strewn everywhere, Armed police are gui the devastated Palace of Justice as well '05 the Town Hall, the Houses of Parliament, the Foreign Office and other public buildings.

'A special defence force of armed Republicans has been formed and it has sworn its allegiance before the Burgomaster.

Many foreign tourists left the Tyrol hurriedly in motorcars, International trains between Italy and Germany vid Brenner Pass have been" running: uninterruptedly throughout the disorders with Ttalian military protect

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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