Zurich, Sept. 26.
"Rome is well aware that Spain is unable to give the Axis Powers practical military assistance owing to the after-effects of the civil war," writes the Rome correspondent of the newspaper "Bund."
"Italians," he adds. "realize that Spain, who is obliged to import cereals from America, is dependent upon British goodwill, which is expressed in the recent Anglo-Spanish agreement, whereby Britain undertook not to hinder, and even to guarantee financially the continuation of these imports."—Reuter. j Early Attack The first incident took place at about 6 am. A route No. 10 tram was attacked by several strikers at the intersection of Avenue Dubafl and Rue Lafayette. The strikers boarded the tram and started to attack a conductor when the policemen, detailed for protection to every vehicle, dispersed them and arrested the ringleader.
Fifteen minutes later another tram in Avenue Dubail was stopped by a crowd of thirty strikers, the majority of whom were armed lh iron rods and stones. The strikers forced the tram to stop near Rue Pere Froe and commenced to assault the personnel and the policemen in the vehicle, as well as to.smash all the windows. could not aer the attackers, but The three[ policemen in the tram
a police patról-called out to the scene, finally arrested the strikers and took them to Poste Central in Rue Stanislas Chevalier. Béfote arresting the strikers, a veritable battle took place in which a Chinese constable sustained a slight wound when he was hit with an iron rod by one of the strikers.
Confronted with a determined batch of discontented employees, the French police patrol was forced to fire into the air. One of the shots hit a striker and he had to be taken to a hospital with wound in the hip. The rest of the crowd was arrested.
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