ITALIAN STRIKE SMASHED.

Taranaki Daily News, 7 August 1922, Page 5

ITALIAN STRIKE SMASHED.

JUBILATION OF FASCIST!. By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. Rome, August 4. Sections of the Fascisti are elated at the smashing of the strike. They are apparently determined to oust their adversaries from all authority. The Fascisti took possession of the Milan Palace, after replacing the Mayor by a commissioner. Speakers, including D’Annunzio, addressed large crowds. All the buildings occupied by Communists in Ancona have been destroyed. Four were killed in the fighting at Genoa, which proceeded all night long. The Daily Telegraph’s Rome correspondent states that the end of the strike was declared by the mysterious triumvirate of j the Labor Alliance. What specific object.' was achieved by this uncalled for disturbance of the entire nation by a coterie of fanatical Labor leaders remains unexplained. As the result of the incidental riots ten to fifteen Communists and Fascisti were killed and forty injured. Received Aug. 5, 5.5 p.m. Rome, August 4. D’Annunzio’s speech followed disturbances at Milan, in which 50 were injured and the Fascisti arrested 200 people. The disturbances ended by the Fascisti storming the Municipal Buildings and turning out the Socialist Town Council. D’Annunzio then addressed a vast crowd on the Piazza from the balcony, and in an. impassioned and poetic speech, he said it was the first time he had spoken in public since the anguish, grief, shame and glory of Fiume, but the genius of Italy had again taken possession of the people to-day.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.