ITALY’S MANIA FOR WASTE AND LUXURY.
ROME, Aui. 25. Signor Nitti’s circular ‘to prefects sounds a note of alarm and urges prompt action to prevent irreparable disaster. It says strikes are a weapon oi. destruction in the country, which is purchasing’ fifteen milliards lire worth of food abroad. All classes, instead of working alld producing, seem seized with 3. mania. for waste and luxury, which will be paid with money almost begged from foreign countries. The spirit of revolt is such that whole provinces refuse to eat foods which they habitually ate before the War. Revolutionaries are Bnernies of th country. Disorders mean starvation of half the nation. N) less than 1,250,000 acres of land have gone out of civilisation. It is absurd to reduc.>. prices whilc- r_)rodu~,n'cl is scant. ,
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Taihape Daily Times, 27 August 1919, Page 6
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