New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1922-08-06
Cabinet Takes
Hand i'm Italy's
fractional w ar
Premier Facta Writes an
Appeal to the Country to
Join i'm ana Effort to Put
Down Feudist Disorders
Reds and Fascist Defiant
Quiet Restored i'm Three
Cities, but Rome Fears
Calm Is Only Temporary

ROME, Aug. s {By The Associated
Press).--Premier Facta's new Cabinet
took a hand in the battle between
the Fascisti and Communists to-day
when it was decided to address an
appeal to the country urging the ces-
satfon of factional strife. The general
situation was the subject of discussion
ut two long sessions of the new
Cabinet.
The appeal, written by the Premier
himself, called attention to injuries
coming to italy through frequent dis
orders, and said the harm thus ere
ated was not limited to the interior,
but that its effect would be felt abroad
where Italian credit and prestige would
be lowered.
Premier Facta, in his appeal, de-
ciared he trusted that the sense Of
responsibility among the leaders, the
sense of fraternity among the masses
and the generosity and goodness of the
Italian people would prevent recur-
renee Of such evils. He said the task
of the government was to harmonic
the various political tendencies In the
country without taking sides with one
faction or the other.
Premier Hits Factionalism
The government, he declared, must
be above factions, and it could not
allow itself to be controlled by any
of them, or allow the removal from
the government of those powers which,
II handed over to irresponsible peo-
pie, would result in blind violence,
even Ii employed for patriotic pur-
poses. The power of the state must
be respected at all costs, said the ap-
peal, and law must be enforced above
everything else. The spirit of tolerance
must inspire the relations between
parties in the interests of the safety
of the nation, said the Premier.
Another appeal, in the form of
signor Tosi, newly appointed Arch
bishop of Milan, which he addressed
to the People and clergy of the
diocese" Monsignor Tosi warmly ap-
pealed for peace and concord. irrespec-
tive Of religion, "for the good of the
city, the country and society"
The government announced this af-
ternoon that order had been restored
in Milan, Genoa and Ancona, after des-
perate fighting had ragged in all three
places for more than twentyfour
iOQISs Dub fSpOIto IiOIIl OtIlST pdTtS OI
the country showed that hostilities
were far from over.
Both Factions Defiant
Reports from the country, however,
indicated that both factions were main
tanning a defiant attitude, and it is i'm
possible to p sdict whether the appar-
emit let-up in hostilities means only a
temporary lull or whether there is
ground for hoping fer q real settlement
of the difficulty. 9e
The abyss separating the extreme
parties has undoubtedly been widened
as result of the shortlived general
strike proclaimed early in the week
agains. reprisals that had been carried
out by the Fascist against their Com
munist adversaries. The situation thus
created, it Is believed, will make the
governments efforts at pacifcation
even more difficult.
The "Epocha," reporting an interview
with an unnamed Socialist Deputy who
arrived here to-day from Ancona,
quoted him as limiting that the Fas-
cisti were planning to march on Rome.
Almost all the railway stations be-
tween Ancona and the capital are said
to be guarded by Fascist, so that
such march would be easy if, as the
deputy was quoted as saying, "the au-
thorities continue to sleep"
Reds Intrenched at Parma
The restoration of communication
to-day with Parma revealed that the
Communists intrenched themselves
yesterday in the poorer quarter of the
city, challenging the Fascist authori-
ties,
The Socialists of Parma did not
obey the order for cessation of the
strike. which fact further irritated the