ITALY.

Taranaki Daily News, 8 December 1919, Page VI

ITALY.

A GENERAL STRIKE, MILITARY KEEPEKfG ORDER, gj Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright, Received Dec. 7, 5.5 p.m. Rome, Dec. 3. Despite a general strike having been proclaimed by the Socialists, all the public services are working normally. Elaborate military preparations have been made to maintain order, including machine guns in the streets. Cavalry and armoured cars are patrolling the principal thoroughfares. There have been frequent collisions between strikers and the police in Rome, Milan and Turin, six having been killed and many wounded.—Aus.-N.Z. Cablo Assn. The strike has spread to Genoa, Alessandria, Bologna and Civitavecchia, but generally the position is less acute. The newspapers have started publising again. —Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.

DISTURBANCES IN THE CITIES. A ROYALIST STABBED TO DEATH. Received Dec. 7, 5.5 p.m. Rome, Dec. 3. Mobs tried to prevent the departure of trains. A policeman and a civilian were killed in the disturbances, and many were wounded. Pour persons, including a gendarme, were killed in Milan. A Royalist colonel was stabbed to death in Turin.—Reuter Service. ATTITUDE OF THE SOCIALISTS. SUPPORT FOR RUSSIAN BOLSHEVISM.

Received Dec. 7,11.5 p.m. Rome, Dec. 3. When the Chamber resumed its sittings after the strike proclamation, the Socialists protested against the beatings they received during the street demonstrations. . The city walls were placarded with manifestoes eulogising Bolshevism, and imploring the workers to act without delay in supporting their Russian brethren. The President invited the Socialists to take the oath. They conformed individually with a reservation as, for instance, "I swear, but falsely." Signor Nitti, replying to the Socialists' complaints, deplored the. beatings they received in the streets, and urged them to moderate language if they did not wish to provoke disorders.—Reuter Service. PREVENTING ADVANCE ON SPALATO. London, Dec. 2. According to a telegram from Belgrade, Italy informed the South Slav Government that, in accordance with instructions from the Peace Conference, she will prevent D'Annunzio's forces advancing on Spalato.