[TI] Peasants Killed. Gendarmes Try to Eject Them from Government Land

[Larie Tedesco]

  Sicilian Peasants Killed
Peasants Killed. Gendarmes Try to Eject Them from Government Land

    Rome, Jan. 21, - A serious conflict occured at Termini, a seaport town in Sicily, between gendarmes and peasants.   About 600 peasants, men and women proceeded deliberately to seize and equat upon lands belonging to the commune, claiming the soil as their own.
    The authorities ordered the intruders to depart, but the latter paid no attention to the notice.   Then the gendarmes were called upon to eject the squatters.     The peasants resisted and a fierce struggle ensued.   The gendarmes fired on the peasants, killing eight of them and wounding 20.   A number of the peasants were taken prisoner and the others fled to the interior swearing vengenance upon the gendarmes and the authorities.

Morning Olympian
Washington
Janurary 22, 1893


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Peasants Killed
Bisody Battle with Soldiers in a Sicilian Town

    Rome, Jan 23. - A terrible battle between 600 peasants and a body of gendarmes occurred at Termini, a seaport town in Sicily.   Eight of the peasants were killed and twenty s severly wounded.   A large number of women were among the rebellious peasants, but it is not known that any of them are numbered among the dead or wounded.   The fight was caused by the refusal of the peasants to vacate a tract of land, the ownership of which is claimed by the commune.   Recently peasants began to squat on the tract and in a short time 600 or more had extablished there.   The attention of the authorities and called to the fact.   Formal notice was sent to the squatters, ordering them to vacate.   They paid no attention to the order, and when spoken to about it replied that the soil was their own and they would not leave.   Upon learning that the peasants had refused to obey the notice the authorities sent a body of gendarmes, with orders to eject the
 squatters by force if necessary.   The peasants resisted and a fierce struggle ensued.     The gendarmes fired upon the peasants, killing eight of them and wounding twenty.   A number of the peasants were taken prisoners and others fled to the interior, swearing vengence upon the gendarmes and the authorities.

Grand Forks Daily Herald
North Dakota
January 24, 1893