DISORDER IN ITALY
GRAVE POSITION AT RAVENNA.
FASCIST! IN CONTROL.
Press Association—®y Telegraph—Copyright
ROME, July 29,
(Received July 31, at 8.45 a.ni.) ’ The situation at Ravenna is still grave. A general strike continues. Ferment among the Republicans and Socialists is (rowing. ■■The fascist!, who are masters of Riven na. have blown up the famous Byron Palace, the headquarters of Labor, where the poet lived.—‘Times.’ [Ravenna is forty-three miles east of ESlogna, and is five miles from the Adriatic, with which it is connected- by the C-orrim Canal. It is enclosed by a wall three miles long, with five gates. Ravenna was the refuge of the Emperor Hononus (402), and was. the capital of Italy for the next 500 years. Since then it has had a chequered history. In the early part of the thirteenth century it was a republic.: Dante died at Ravenna, and is buried there, and Byron resided in the city from June, 1819, to October, 1821.]
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Evening Star, Issue 18034, 31 July 1922, Page 9
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