FEUD AGAINST ITALIANS

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 548, 28 December 1928, Page 9

FEUD AGAINST ITALIANS

ROME PAPER BITTERLY ATTACKS BRITISH “ANGLO-SAXON HYPOCRISY” Times Cable. LONDON, Wednesday. The Milan correspondent of “The Times’' says the “Popolo d'ltalia” makes a bitter attack on Britain and Australia, in connection with the reported. decision of the Port Adelaide authorities to debar workers who do not know the English language from employment. The newspaper speaks of “AngloSaxon hypocrisy, brutal insults, and open violation of those principles of enlightened Liberalism and intelligent democracy of which English society is so proud. “The decision of the port authorities,” it says, “may seem to be dictated by practical considerations, but really it aims at protecting the British workman against immigrants of any other nationality. “In the history of the struggles among races no measure so hateful, anti-social and inhuman has ever before been taken. “Italian workmen are the first to suffer, but those same Italian workmen were first in Australia, Africa, and America to open up unknown lands, and to lay down the fertile germs of Mediterranean civilisation.” Ira conclusion “11 Popolo” says it fears that this English or Australian crusade against Southern European workmen may be the beginning of a dispute which will reach vast proportions. “INSULT TO ITALY” COAT-OF-ARMS REMOVED FROM CONSULATE MUCH RESENTMENT BRISBANE, Thursday. Much resentment prevails among the Italians at Innisfail, because of the removal of the coat-of-arms from the front of the Italian Consulate during the holidays. The Vice-Consul for Italy, Signor Luciano, in a statement to-day describes it as “an insult to the Italian nation, which arouses a feeling similar to that which would be experienced by Britons if someone tore down a Union Jack and threw it in the grutter.” The Vice-Consul says it is time that such occurrences ended, and that he looked to the proper authorities to trace the guilty person. NO OFFICIAL REPORT A PROTEST POSSIBLE (Australian and N.Z. Press Association] Reed. 12.51 p.m. ROME, Thursday. Special inquiries reveal that thus far there is no official report about the Queensland coat of arms incident. A representative of the Italian Foreign Office in a statement said the Government would certainly protest if an official report from its representative shows that there are grounds for such a protest.