The Archive · 1940

Yugoslav Workers Denounce Germans

Demonstrations Break Out — Against Export of Foods, High Cost of Living

Belgrade, Sept. 9.

Shouting "Why do Germans cat Yugoslav food and we starve," hundreds of workers ct all classes toda participated in a demonstration Threshnavitz, the northern suburb of Zagreb, in Croatia.

The crowd demolished windows of butcher-shops, groceries and bakeries and strewed the contents of the shops about the streets, but there was no plundering.

There were casualties among the Gemonstrators and the police, including a few fatalities.

The demonstrations were entirely due to the increasing price of foodstuffs arising from "suicidal" exports to Germany last year.—Reuter.

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