ITALY.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 16611, 8 December 1919, Page 3

ITALY.

GENERAL STRIKE DECLARED. BUT PROVES INEFFECTIVE.

Bv Telegrapo—Press Assn.—Copyright ROME. Doc. 3.

Despite a general strike having been proclaimed by the Socialists, all the public services aro working normally. Elaborate military preparations have been made to maintain order, including machine puns in tho streets. Cavalry and armoured cars aro patrolling tho principal thoroughfares. _ ' There have been frequent collisions between strikers and tho police in Romo, Milan and Turin, six having been killed and qjany wounded. TJio strike has spread to Genoa, Alessandria, Bologna and Civita Vecclu.i, but generally the position is loss acute. The newspapers have starlet publishing again. Mobs tried to prevent the departure of trains. A policeman and a civilian were killed in the disturbances, and manv wore wounded.

Four persons, including a gendarme, were killed at Milan.

A Royalist colonel wbs stabbed to death at Turin.When tho Chamber resumed its sitting after the proclamation of ill© strike, tho Socialists protested" against the boatings they received during tho street demonstration?. The city nails were placarded with manifestoes eulogising Bolshevism, and imploring the workers to act without delay in supporting their Russian brethren. The President invited tho Socialists to take the oath. They conformed individually with a reservation as, for instance,’ l; l swear, but falsely.” Signor Nitti, replying to the Socinlists’ complaints, deplored tho beatings they received in the streets, and urged them to moderate language if they did not wish to provoke disorders.—Reuter Service.