UNREST IN ITALY

Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 162, 5 April 1920, Page 5

UNREST IN ITALY

♦— — SEIZURE OF WORKS BY EXTREMISTS GOVERNMENT'S POSITION ' UNSTABLE (By Telegraph-Press Association-Copyright (Eec. April t, 5.5. p.m.) Rpme, April 3. Tho extremists continue to, erect a siege works, placing them under Workers' Councils. Efforts at Turin, Genoa, Naples, and Brescia were recently unsuccessful, largely owing to tho antiBolsheviks organising a, so-called "Royal Guard," which goes round the country taking effective action against revolution-' ary movements and strikes. Tho Eoyal Guard is composed of ex-soldiers, who are well paid nnd.u ell armed. Socialist deputies angrily demand their suppression. Theever rising nrices encourage the workers' unrest- Tf'.e Government's nosition is vory unstable.—Aus.-N.Z. Caltfo Assn. ' THE PREMIER'S POLICY RESTORATION OF \ EUROPE AN EQUILIBRIUM. (Eec. April i, 5.5 p.m.) , Rome, April) 2. . Signor Nitti .(Premier) in the Senate urged tho desirableness' of rehabilitating Germany and Russia, enabling (hem to produce, thereby restoring the European equilibrium. The Gorman peopled he said, had already paid heavily for their crime. In reference to Turkey, he said that Italy only desired to. develon Asia, Minor and nrolect the Straits. Italy did not desire hostility to Jugo-Slavia. Ho recognised that it wa« impossible to demand tho Pact of London as well ns Fiume, nnd advocated a- dignified compromise. The Senate almost unanimously passed a vote of confidence in Signov Nitti.—AusN.Z. Cablo Assn. ' FOOD FOR FIUHB--D'ANNUNZTO'S MOTOE-BOATS CAPTURE A STEAMER. (Eec. April i, 5.5 p.m.) . . v . Rome, April: 2. D'Anntinzio's motor-boats captured a steamer from Trieste, and exported her to Fiume, where,, the cargo of foodstuffs was discharged. The. steamer was then allowed to proceed.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. ... ..