Word: santamaria
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Dates: during 1923-1923
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...Fascist headquarters and at the home of a local Fascist leader. At Campoligure, near Genoa. Thirty persons were wounded in a fight between the Fascisti and opposing forces. The trouble arose because the anti-Fascisti objected to and interfered with the funeral of a local hero, Paolo Santamaria, whose body had been brought back from the former Italian battle front. This is said to have provoked the attack by the Fascisti. At Pontelagoscuro, near Ferrara. In the dead of a pitch black night a band of unknown persons tried to storm a fort containing thousands of tons of explosives. Rifle...