ANTI-VATICAN TROUBLES.

Press, Volume LXVII, Issue 20250, 30 May 1931, Page 15

ANTI-VATICAN TROUBLES.

DISTURBANCES IN ROME. TROOPS PARADE STREETS. (T3HIT*B PRESS 4mocutio>-» XLxeuub TBIOiOB4rH—OOPJBIBHT.) (Received May 28th, 7.16 p.m.) ROME; May 28. As tta result of Fascist students breaking the window* of the Catholic Action Party's offices as a protest against tho distribution of tract® dealing with martyrdom, troops paraded the city all night long. Feeling ran high, but there was no incident. The recent clashes hare caused the newspaper, "Populadi Roma," to publish a bitter comment, blaming'tho Actionists for tension and Baying thai, tljgy have become definitely political and against the .Fascist Party. The paper denies that Fascists insulted tha Pope or the priests, and suggests.thai Cardinal Pacelli, the Papal secretary, resigned because he disagreed with fho Actionists' policy. . The Vatican authorities are rigorously enquiring into an incident at the Papal Chancery; situated in the cfentre of Rome, where a group of ' student* allegedly tried to force an entrance, shouting, "Down with the. -Pope and death to the Papacy!" It :is considered that the, demonstration, ;if it occurred, is a clear, violation of th» Lateran Treaty, which stipulated that the Pope's person should be sacred. Anti-Vatican demonstrators attacked a kiosk in the centre of. Rora« and burned copies of the newspaper, "Oteservatore Romano." > ' ; '