SITUATION IN ITALY
_ « GENERAL STRIKE PROCLAIMED. FATAL COLLISIONS WITH POLICE. PUBLIC SERVICES ALL WORKING (Australian and N.Z. Cable Asan.) ROME, December 3. Despite a general strike having been proclaimed by the Socialists, all the public services arc working normally. i'j a borate military preparations have been made to maintain order, including machine-guns in the streets and cavalry and armoured cars patrolling the principal thoroughfares. There have been frequent collisions between tho strikers and police in Rome, Milan and Turin, six having been killed and many wounded. MOBS INTERFERE WITH TRAINS. ROME, December 3. Mobs tried to prevent the departure of trains. A policeman and a civilian weiM killed in the disturbances, and many were wounded. Four, including •o. gendarme, were killed in Milan, and n r-.v.i'ist colonel'was stabbed to death in Turin.
POSSTiON LESS ACUTE
ROME, December 5
T| le strike has spread to Genoa, Ales sandria, Bologna and Civita Vecchia lint generally the position is fcss acnte. The newspapers arc re-publishing.
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Waikato Times, Volume 91, Issue 14235, 9 December 1919, Page 6
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