ITALY’S TRADE

Greymouth Evening Star, 9 September 1927, Page 5

ITALY’S TRADE

GENERAL DISCONTENT. 'Australian and N.Z. ('aide Association.' LONDON, September 7. The “Daily News” Paris correspondent states: “If you enforce the threat to close the factories, we shall deport you to Lipari Salina,” said Signor Mussolini in reply to some leading industrialists who specially went to Rome to endeavour to dissuade him against bourgeois policy by making the threat of a cessation of their operations. Considerable tension prevails in Italy, as the big business men are annoyed because the Government does not consult them regarding the industrial reorganisation. The axe which Signor Mussolini wields on the ; badly managed mushroom factories is also irritating. Stagnation is widespread, and the exports are stationary, while contracts are few and carried out at a loss, and bankruptcies of small business men are alike an avalanche, while the workers are morose and the unemployed number half a million.

COMMUNISTS ARRESTED. ROME, September 8. Fascisti Militia police from Rome arrested over 50 communists at Civita Vecchia, allegedly associated in a new conspiracy with vast ramifications Several hundred other arrests are reported, chiefly in the regions of Venice and Bologna.