ITALIAN SOCIALISTS
GREAT REVOLUTIONARY PLOT.
GOVERNMENT’S ULTIMATUM DEFIED.
Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. ROME, January 31. (Received Feb. 1, at 8.30 p.m.) The Florence Nationalists claim to have discovered a Socialists’ plot. A great revolutionary outbreak has been planned throughout the -whole of Italy, being timed for February 3. A circular which was secured contained a strategic plan of Florence, indicating the precise position for the insurgents to seize at the outset. The Nationalists also discovered numerous confidential documents stolen from the district military containing secret instructions for subordinate officers in the event, of a sudden rising. The Bologna, Modena, and Ferrara provinces are defying the Government’s ultimatum for the delivery of arms. The total delivery at the expiry of the allotted time consisted of 70 old pistols and a number of rusty knives, whereas it is known, that 500,000 persons are armed.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 18159, 2 February 1921, Page 5
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