Italy.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume IX, Issue 173, 8 July 1919, Page 5

Italy.

DISTURBANCES IN NORTHERN CENTRES.

(Received 8, 12.30 p.m.) London, July; 4. Extensive disturbances tinged ' with anarchv are reported from j Northern Italy. These are especially i violent at Bologna and Florence, f Thev are due to excess 1 ve prices. The Government is seizing stocks * and fixing prices. Every food shop >in Florence has been looted. % „ TROUBLE AT FIUME. THREAT TO SINK A TRANSPORT. London. July G. According to a Milan newspaper’s iFiume correspondent. General Gra,;z:o!i appealed to the French to nre- * vent the Jugo-Slavs landing at MarJtinschizza. in the rear of the Italians i holding the armistice line. On hear«ing that instructions must be awaited from Desperev. who was at Constantinople, Grazioli took independent action. Accordingly when a huge transport requisitioned by the ‘French appeared in Martinschizza i Bay crammed with Serbian and Jugc. . Slav soldiers an Italian destroyer ' ordered her to return to her port of I denarture. otherwise she would be ; sunk. This order was obeyed. | HIGH COST OF LIVING, j R ADICAL REMEDY DEMANDED. I London. July 6.

The ‘ Daily Chronicle’s” Milar correspondent reports that the local authorities and Labour in Milan sent an ultimatum to the Government to the effect that a radical remedy must lie found bv Monday or a general strike would be declared. They demanding fifty to seventy per cent abatement in prices of al! tne prime necessaries of life.

Agitation in Genoa and elsewhere has been lulled by forced .-.air-, of eoods at half price. Tne correspondent states that the Government is trying to cope with t*u violent popular rrbfllien against dear living, particularlv in Tuscany and Roniagua. by establishing Bt<it.e i o’itrol. Hitherto the joint profits of the producers and middlemen have been anything up to tour hundred per cent. The authorities at Rome enforced a reduction of fifty per cent on foodstuffs and Uventj-five on clothing. The State proposes to distribute food oxer tl’c ( ounirv through < ommittee.-. limiting tradesmen’s profits to ten per cent. The authorit es at Rome enforced a reduction to fiftv r-er nmt. on *<iodsiuffs and twentv-five on clothing. Tie S'.it- propos. s t-> •L-tr.bute food over the (oentn t’ooagh c.>rn’int r ei's, Kn.it.ng tt.idr«n on - p.o.'its t-m ptr cent. There >■ ho’e--a’e p.llage at Fiorem e. I. g.mrn and Bologna. A humin d ’•lot.v <re wounded at I iorence. sei era) killed .ltd a t.w»i-and nrre.-ud