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Show FOOD RIOTS STIR ITALIAHMEENTEH Mobs at Forli Loot Stores and Carry Away Every-th Every-th ing Portable. FORLT, Italy, July '2. (By the As-suciat As-suciat o. ProsH. ) A ft it a tfreat moet-in' moet-in' hen vest rnlny in whuh a vast rrowcl protest I'd against t im Iiili cosl of living, tho iM-ople, excited by inflatn-mntory inflatn-mntory speeches, attaeUct!, Hacked, and destroyed many shops whit'h rrfufed to .sell comiiU)lil ies at lower prices. The fury of Die mob matte nu flint inc-tion inc-tion and had no limits. All ttio iirin-f.ipal iirin-f.ipal shops were plundered, and the mobs controlled thu entire eil. They took possession of ionics and t rans-ported rans-ported all kinds of tfood.f and food supplies sup-plies from t lie pillaged simps to the chamber of labor. On the walls of this (Miamber they wrote: ''These j-joods are at the disposal of the people." The .situation jiew worse during the day, assuming a revohi t ionury char-act char-act ei , and t lie mob cont inued to loot and dest roy all kinds of property. Tho food riots Jiere, liowever, differ dif-fer ftimliuneulally from thrive at Sjezia early in June. At Speia the rbders lonterl for their own advantage, while at Knrli most, of what was taken from the slio;ts was t ra nsf erred in the care of the munifi pal i t y or the chamber ot' labor to be distributed to the people or sold at low prices. " |