THE BREAD RIOTS IN ITALY.
MILITARY CONTROL OF RAIL-, '."WAYS. ' " ".. ' ■', Tress Association—By. Telegraph—Copyright. Rome, May 12. (Received May 13, at 9.15 a.m.) Consequent on the disaffection amongst ;he railway employes, the Italian Governnent have placed the whole of the railway lystsm under military control. Military Officers now superintend the traffic. An army of reservists are now serving on ;he railways. They -will resume their iniformß. A number of Socialist newspaper editors lave been arrested for inciting the people to revolt. < Many Italians in Switzerland are returning to their own country, and are assembling at Ohiasso, a Swiss -village near Como, for the purpose of considering their attitude in regard to the revolutionary outbreak. Owing to a strike of the employees in the gasworks, Milan is in darkness. Cycling in the city is prohibited. Serious riots have occurred at Como and Hbvara. London, May 12. ; (Received May 13, at 9.15 a.m.) Referring to th<s revolution, The Time 3 j states, upon the authority of a diplomatist intimately acquainted with the by-ways of the clerical policy, that the recognised aim j of the Vatican is to collaborate with the | Socialist and Republican parties, with a j view to securing the overthrow of the House j of Savoy, in the hope that the establishment j of a Federal Republic in Italy will pave the way for the re-establishment of the temporal power of the Pope. " ,'
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 11113, 14 May 1898, Page 6
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