SITUATION AT GENOA

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume XXIII, 7 August 1922, Page 5

SITUATION AT GENOA

COMMUNISTS ATTACK FASCISTI GRAVE DISTURBANCES FEARED Per Press Association —Copyright. • Rome, August 6. Five thousand fascisti attacked the San Giorgio Palace, where the Genoa Conference was held. They overcame the guards and made the municipal officials prisoners. The defending guards used machine guns and killed three and wounded a large number of Fascisti. The military then took over the policing of Genoa and restored order. Fifty Fascisti, while motoring to Muggia, were attacked by Communists, who threw a dozen bombs, killing four Fascisti and wounding twenty-seven. The survivors returned to Muggia and attacked the Communist headquarters, while all the Fascists in the Trieste district have been mobilised. Grave disturbances are feared. NEWSPAPER ATTACKED. BY FASCISTI. Rome, August 6. The Fascisti raided the Socialist newspaper “Avant? at Milan, and wrecked the editorial department and set fire to the newsprint store. One Bersaglieri and two Fascisti wej-e killed in the ensuing fight.

D’ANNUNZIO’S SPEECH

, ROME, August 4. D Annunzio’s speech followed disturbances in Milan in which 50 were injured and the Fascisti arrested 200 people.

The disturbances ended by the Fascisti storming the municipal buildings and turning out the socialist town council.

D’Annunzio then addressed a vast crowd at the Piazza, from the balcony. In an impassioned poetic speech, he said that it was the first time he had spoken in public since the anguish, grief, shame and glory of Fiume, but the genius of Italy had again taken possession of the people to-day.