UNREST IN TYROL
anti-italian rumours. (by CABLE—PBES3 ASSN. —COPYEIGHT.] VIENNA, April 23. According to unconfirmed reports, guerilla warfare, news of which the Italian Government suppressed, is being waged between police and Gormanspeaking inhabitants in the region ceded to Italy after the war. The Italian authorities are considering the placing of some of the districts under martial law. , Germany’s success in the Saar has increased anti-italian propaganda in the region, and this is believed to be responsible for the action of South Tyroleans in violently resisting attempts to convert them to Italians by proscribing German, and allowing only Italian in schools. There are also rumours of bomb outrages, on railwav bridges, and on electricity works, ami of attempts on the lives of prominent people. The police are alleged to bo making mass arrests, the courts severely punishing offenders. A terrorist organisation was discovered at Brixen. Those arrested were not ringleaders, but students and sons tof business men, who said they had received the explosives from an unjkuown source under the promise of beAug given payment for successful outrtigcs. ITALIAN DENIAL. LONDON, April 24. The Italian Embassy describes as unbounded the reports as to Tyrolean giaerilla warfare.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 26 April 1935, Page 7
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