THE ITALIAN CRISIS.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3357, 9 December 1919, Page 3

THE ITALIAN CRISIS.

SOCEALISTS CA.’I.L 'GE.\"EI{A'L STRIKE-.i MILITARY PREPARED FOR ‘ACTION. ROME, December 4. Despite EL 'gg'llcl'al zstrike having been proclaimed by the Socialists, all public services are working normally. lllaborate military preparations have been m';1(le to maintain ordeij, including machine guns in the streets. Coiv-i airy and arnioured cars are patrolling the pi'il)ci.pal thoroughfares. There have been frequent collisions between the strikers and the police in Rome, Milan and Turin, six ll.u.villg been killed and 111';-Ixiy wounded. Mobs tried to prevent the departure of trains. A policeman and 3. civilian were killed in the distant»anccs. Many were wounded. Four, including a geudarmc, were

‘killed in Milan. A Royalist colonel ‘WEls_Stal’)bOd ~fo death in Turin.‘ ‘ The strike has spread to Genoa, l|Alexandl'ia,, B'ologna. and Ci\'i’2:l\7ees ,ehia, but generally the position is less acute. Newspapers are republishing. ATHENS, December 4. ;Food riots led to bloody conflicts at Phillippopolis, many being killed and lwounded. There were also riots at K Plevna. T "'" T SOC'I_fi.S.LISTS’ ‘OATHS. , .' ‘ ‘\ .B‘~o".\J'li‘», December‘ 3. When the Chmnber resumed sittings after the strike proclamation, ‘the iSCcinlists pv~Qteste<l against the beat-lin-gs tlley I'o(‘.eive(l during street demonstrations. The city walls are plaLsarcled with gnanifelsffos eulogisiirg Bolshevism, and imploring the work ers to act without delay in supporting their Russian l3ret.llroll. The President invited the Socialists to take the oath, They qo11:fo.rn1e(l individluallly, fwiith the reservation, “I swear, but falsely.” j Nitti, replying to the Socialists’ ldeplored the beatings they received in the streets. He urged them to mod» erate their language if they did no wish to provoke disorders. .