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The Gazette
Cleveland, Cuyahoga County, Ohio
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In Italy, 200 troops were shot after a regiment mutinied and refused to embark for Spain; engineers at Castel-Maggiore also refused service. Anti-intervention demonstrations erupted, with arrests in Genoa and posters in Milan denouncing Mussolini and Fascism.
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Troopers Mutiny—Refuse To Embark For Spain—"Down With Mussolini"!
Paris, France, May 18.—Two hundred Italian troops were shot in Italy when an entire regiment mutinied and refused to embark for Spain, the Leftist newspaper L'Oeuvre reported today. A corps of engineers at Castel-Maggiore also refused to serve in the Spanish Rebel armies, the paper declared. L'Oeuvre asserted that violent demonstrations against continuance of intervention in Spain were breaking out throughout Italy. More than 200 persons were arrested at Genoa, it said, after posters were found pasted on walls reading: "Down with Fascism" "Down with Mussolini". The newspaper reported that when lights were restored, after electricity was cut off in Milan for twenty-five minutes recently, walls were found covered with thousands of posters denouncing intervention and proclaiming: "The hour of liberty for oppressed Italy will soon be sounded".—New York News.
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Italy
Event Date
May 18
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200 italian troops shot; more than 200 persons arrested at genoa
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An entire regiment of Italian troops mutinied and refused to embark for Spain, leading to 200 being shot. A corps of engineers at Castel-Maggiore refused to serve in the Spanish Rebel armies. Violent demonstrations against intervention in Spain broke out throughout Italy, with posters reading 'Down with Fascism' and 'Down with Mussolini' in Genoa, leading to over 200 arrests. In Milan, after a 25-minute electricity cutoff, walls were covered with thousands of posters denouncing intervention and proclaiming the coming liberty for Italy.