Word: clashed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Hyde Park occurred a clash between British Fascisti and Communists, involving some 2,000 persons, resulting in scores of more or less seriously damaged people and the wreckage of several private automobiles. The trouble started when the Fascisti, seeing a red flag, lost control of themselves and seized the insulting emblem, tearing it to pieces. They said they were pledged to tear down every red flag hoisted in London. The Evening News, antiCommunist, nevertheless scored the Fascisti, who are far from popular in London. Seeing a grave menace to the freedom of speech, the newspapers said...
Meantime, anti-foreign feeling continued to run high in most of the eastern Provinces. Strikers remained out and a bloody clash took place between two Chinese factions at Canton. In the same place terrorists frightened the sexton of the foreign cemetery to flight by threatening to dig up the dead. In divers places stories of shots fired at foreign transports were reported and lost nothing in being recounted. Despite many difficulties, indications were that Chinese unrest was slowly ebbing...
...Yale teams will invade Soldiers Field tomorrow morning at 10.45 o'clock to open the 1925 series of baseball games between the Crimson and the Blue. The 1928 team comes to play the University first year men, while the Second teams of the two Universities will clash at the same time...
...Yale comes in behind the University golfers this afternoon, when the two teams clash on the neutral greens of the Rhode Island Country Club at Nayatt, it will be the twentieth consecutive victory for what can be safely said to be the University's most successful sport...
...gruelling contest is promised for this afternoon when the tennis racquets of the University and Princeton clash on the Divinity courts at 2.30 o'clock. The Tigers bring a strong combination to Cambridge, which has only been defeated by Yale...