The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-03-07
IMMINENT DANGER IN ITALY.
THE WHOLE COUNTRY ON THE
VERGE OF ANARCHY.

King Humbert Announces That He
Would Rather Abdicate Than
Abandoned the Italian Colony of
Erythrea in AbyssinIa-A Motion
for Abandonment TO He introduced
in the Chamber-RiOtOus MObs in
Conflict With the Police All over
the Country.
Rome, March 6.-At Pisa yesterday the
students. believing that several batteries
of artillery, which were leaving the place,
were to start for Africa, marched in a
body to the railway station, shouting:
Down with Crispi'' Give us back our
soldiers" etc. On their way they burned
copies of the Tribuna and Nazion, gov
ernment organs.
A mob at Milan marched to the railway
station last evening. and smashed the
windows of that building, which they took
possession of in order to prevent the de-
parture of troops, which it had been re-
ported were about to start for Africa. The
report turned out to be unfounded, but
that did not have the effect of quieting the
mob, who continued to occupy the sta
ton. The troops finally made an assault
upon the building and drove the students
out. After the station had been cleared
the disturbances were renewed in the
streets, and kept up until o'clock in the
morning. In the many scuffles which oc-
Cured, several soldiers, policemen and
civilians were injured. A large number of
arrests were made. The Prefect of Milan
this morning issued proclamation for
bidding the people to gather in crowds or
to march in procession.
a mob gathered in Parma last evening,
which the police tried to disperse. The
mob attacked the police with stones,
whereupon the police fired a volley over
the crowd. The mob scattered in great
haste.
A group of members of the right have
given notice of their intention to move
in the Chamber of Deputies, a resolution
the Italian colony of Erythrea, in Abys-
sinia.
There was renewal tonight of the
riotous demonstrations here against the
government. The mob smashed the win
dows of several buildings and stoned the
police. During the melee revolvers were
fired and thirteen soldiers and policemen
and two rioters were wounded.
At Pavia, mob tore up the railway, pre-
venting the departure of trains. They
also cut a number of telegraph wires The
rioters then proceeded to the prefecture
of police and, smashed all the windows in
the building. The police fired into the
mob and it is reported that many were
The greatest excitement prevails every
where, and reports of disorders come in
from all directions. Excited radicals So
cialistS and epublican-socialist members
of the Chamber of Deputies were seen in
Rome this evening, amid crowds of peo-
pie. CRYING, Long live Menelik." Long
The socialist deputies have issued a man
ifeSto urging the people to insist upon
the governments recalling the troops from
A az neGfx tn flne
persons imprisoned for taking part in the
recent socialist riots in Sicily.
The popular demonstration against the
government, which il was proposed to hold
tonight at the capital turned out to be
complete fiZZle. Only a small number
of people gathered in the Plaza Colona,
the place of the assembly. Later they
marched to the capitol but the police were
present in force and would not allow
them to enter. A number of radical depu-
ties harangued the crowd, eliciting howls
of disapproval against the governments
policy, but before any overt act was COM
mitted the police intervened, broke up the
gathering and dispersed the crowd.
London, March GA dispatch from
Rome to the Central News asserts that
King Humbert has declared that he would
sooner abdicate the throne of Italy than
to abandon the Italian provinces of Fry
threa, in Africa.
The Daily News will tomorrow publish
a dispatch from Rome saying that 1000
Italian troops who escaped from the re-
cent slaughter upon the field at the hands
of the army in Abyssinia, took refuge in
Adigrat, which place is now besieged by
the Abyssinians The position of the
Italians is desperate. There is in the
town a supply of provisions sufficient for
only three days.
San Diego, Cal, March 6.-The italian
cruiser Cristofore Colombo arrived here
to-day. She has received orders to return
at once to Italy.