Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1920-01-09
Ally CRUSHES
Red REVOLTIN
SHORT ORDER
Soldiers Spring Up Like Magic
When Trouble Begins
to Pop.
ROME QUIET RESTORED

ONE, Jan. 9.--Field- grey infantry in
b hats are banked against the ministry
Nof war idly watching the streams of
stranie drift up and down the sunny Via
Ventt Settembre Through the great
doorway lorries can be seen massed in
the courtyard ready for instant use A
long haired gentleman wearing a red tie
scowIed at them just now as he lum-
bered past in his ancient cab, and the
soldiers smiled at him pleasantly.
Their attitude seemed to typify the
general feeling of Rome during this
somewhat critical week a few pro-
cnnaions-some following the red nag
yS6thers behind the national coiors-were
the only outburst of sentiment mark
ing the days of the general strike. Even
the twenty minute collision before the
DiocIetian baths the other night left no
impression on the city. l have seen far
more emotion in Trafalgar square on
Sunday afternoon
When striking workmen sought to
gather in the little squares of old Rome,
carabinieri and civil guards sprouted as
though by magic from buildings and
quietly set them moving once more. A
socialist orator haranguing the passersby
from the, steps of the Piazza st. Claudia
yielded Immediately to the gesture of
authority,
Tourists, guide hook in hand, stroll
among the sights" OF Rome as freely
as in pre-war days. Importunate guides
and hawkers of cheap antiques infest
the piazza of St. Peters; the tourist
offices are full of inquiring travellers.
MILITARY STRENGTH
IN ROME IMPRESSIVE.
One is impressed by the evident
strength OF the military force in Rome.
THE barracks are full In addition to
be ordinary line infantry and cavalry
here are generous supplies of civil
tuards, carabinieri and ordinary police
1t hand. Public buildings and the ap-
proaches to parliament have exhibited
their encircling cordons, but otherwise
the mailed fist, though ever poised, has
been adroitly concealed
The soldiers, no less than the cara
binieri and civil guards, are weary
enough Of the business. They want to
be demobilized and sent home. The
carabinieri, who have borne the brunt
OF the work in recent clashes, excite
general admiration by their even temper
and patience in handling unruly social
lists A London policeman could not be
RNsQre restrained
Whenever the troops appear, chang
ing quarters or being relieved. futter
of interest is perceptible in the streets.
They look war worn and travel stained
in their old uniforms, but very fit. They
come swinging rapidly down the Via
sistine or Via Nazionale-wiry little
men swathed in thick blanket rolls, step
ping Ike veterans. Differed by smart
young men who sport many colored rib
bons on Their tight tunics.
They cleave a passage through the maze
of vehicles and the crowd halts. San
daled Capuchins, Dominicans in white.
youthful cleries with the insignia Of
college on their cassocks, and an occa-
slonai aged prelate peering from under
his scarlet coIored hat pause at the curb
to see the column so by.
SIGNIFICANCE IN
SHOUTS FOR KING.
1t is a picturesque, ver-shifting crowd.
One might almost call 1t stolid crowd
as well, for all the emotion 1t shows.
few staccato cries of appreciation per
hans. but usually silence-though
friendly silence-marks the passage of
~ wen in gray. A Roman crowd is not
~ 10 cheering That is why the
butts for King Victor, as he drove to
hamemt last Monday morning We're
more significant than they would
i've been in another capital,
~ Rome is crowded. Rich refugees and
homeless Italians who can not procure
HHkS though OHeTlng ludL kllNe VI d pa
ace. fill the great hotels Mysterious in
dividuals, apparently millionaires ana
wholly cosmopolitan, frequent the public
rooms and American bars. You can hear
Greek and an Egyptian talking good
English over their Scotch and soda;
wealthy Hungarians rub shoulders with
very conversational Poles Russian noble
men discourse on the horrors of bolshe-
vism. and all the tangled politics Of cen
trail Eurore and the near east are talked
over at interminable length in these cara
yansaries. A tinge of British khaki still
pervades the scene, but 1t Is diminishing
steadily.
The foreign colony is large and grow
ing larger Passport formalities have
been cut to a minimum. hotel porter
collects the registration papers and
permits de sejour comes back automati-
cally from the prefecture. Prices are
soaring dizzlly, yet money is sPent free
IL. and much Of 1t IS about Some arti-
cies cost seven times what they did in
pre-war days. Nevertheless, foreigners
who know Italy profess confidence In her
ability to emerge safely from the crisis