UNREST IN ITALY.

Press, Volume LV, Issue 16700, 8 December 1919, Page 9

UNREST IN ITALY.

MILITARY PRECAUTIONS

SEVERAL FATAL RIOTS

| (B r —Fr*>»« A wK-i.itior—Oopvrieht.) | (Australian ar-tl N.Z. Cabb Association.' ! i Received Docombc:- 7tli. ">.o p.in.l I ROMK. IV vmlvr :i. Drspite a general strike having boor ! proclaimed i»v the Socialis-t s, all ih»i public services are working normally. Klaborate niiliiarv reparations have boon niado to maintain order, including machine guns in tlio streets. Cavalry and armoured oars aro patrolling tlio principal thoroughfaros. Tli cro linvc boon frequent collisions between the stridors and tlio police in Homo, Milan and lurin, six porsons having boon killed mid many wounded. Mobs of strikers tried to prevent tho depart tiro of tlie trains. A policeman and a civilian were killed in tho disturbances, and mnnv were wounded. Four persons including a gendarme. wore killed in Milan, and a Royalist colonel was stubbed to death in Turin. TiTF, STRIKE SPREAD IXC ("Tlio (Received December 7th, 5.5 p.m.) HOME, December H. Tlio strike has spread to Genoa, A lessandria, Bologna and Pint a Vopchia, but generally the position is less acute. Tho newspapers are republishing. SOCIALISTS PROTEST. (Received December 7th. 11.5 p.m.) ROME. December A. When the Chamber resumed its sittings after tho strike proclamation, the Socialists protested against tho lion tings they had received during tho street, demonstrations. Tlio city walk aro placarded with manifestoes eulogising Bolshevism, and imploring tho workers to act without delay in supporting their "Russian brethren." \\ lion tho President of tho Chamber invited the Socialist* to tnkp tho oath, they conformed individually, but with reservations as, for instance, "I swear, but falsely — Signor Xitti, replying to tho Socialiste' complaints, deplored tho biatings they had received in tho streets, but urged tlipm to moderato their language if they did not wish to provoke disorders.