The New York herald., 1922-08-08
ITALY ORDERS ARMY
TO STOP CIVIL WAR
Drastic Instructions Pro-
hibit Holding DemOnstra-
tiOns of All Kinds.
MORE BUILDINGS BURN
Arsenal at SpeZia Is Blown
Up With Million Lire
Damage.
FRESH RIOTS STIR CITIES
Martial Rule Is Extended to,
Brescia in Anticipation
/; of Disorders.
FRESH RIOTS STIR CITIES

ROME, Aug. (Associated Press).
-Burnings and bloodshed continue in
Italy. Drastic instructions have been
issued to the military authorities from
the Ministry Of the Interior to put
down civil war at all costs and to
prohibit absolutely demonstrations Of
all kinds. Martial law was proclaimed
In the provinces OF Genoa, Milan,
Parma, Ancona and Leghorn yester-
lay.
Martial law was EXTENDED tonight to
the province Of Brescia. where dis
orders are expected to break out. The
Government is gratified at the results
obtained in the other provinces now
under martial law and feels that 1t has
the situation in hand.
100000 lire damage was caused by
the explosion of the arsenal at Spezia
in connection with the civil strife.
Fascist devastated the headquarters of
the seamen at this place and burned
down the Federation of Labor's Club.
At Naples, the Fascist occupied the
headquarters of the Federation of Sea-
men and substituted for 1t a Fascist!
Seamen's organization. The Fascist
official organ, Popolo DItalia. in a
statement tonight declares that the
monks said to have been killed by Fas-
cisti at Ancona on Saturday, were not
Monks but Communists disguised.
The Socialist party's executive COM
raittee published a manifesto to the
country tonight. protesting against
reaction and added: Socialism will not
bend undsr the blows of reaction; Soc
ialism cannot be destroyed"
20 Wounded mt Genoa.
At Genoa twenty-eight persons were
wounded in the last twenty-four hours.
A band OF 200 Fascist, armed with axes
and picks. forced an entrance into the
office of the Socialist publication
Lavoro ana burned the building. They
outwitted the police, who had taken
extraordinary measures 20 protect the
newspaper plant. A small number OF
Fascist made an attack on the front
door. where the military forces concen-
trated, but larger band succeeded in
beating down the back door, saturated
the building with gasoline and igni.ed It..
Many linotype machines and printing
presses were destroyed
Senator Nino Romeo. president of the
naTDOr cOnSOTtluH, induced tne dsClsll
TO leave the San Giorgio palace by
promising perfect freedom of work to all
men, irrespective of their party affilia-
uons. The Fascist published a mani
festo announcing the terms and pro-
claiming the banishment from the city
of several railroad workers who ham,
pered the work OF the Fascist during
the recent railroad strike.
The Fascist later succeeded in oc-
cupying~ the headquarters of the Fed
Grafton of Labor. which was heavily
guarded by the military, by dropping
themselves by ropes from hill over
looking the building to the roof of the
structure. They Immediately hoisted the
national flag. The authorities promised
that the building would not be returned
TO it's Socialist owners but to the Fas-
cisti organization. called he Italian Fed
Grafton of Labor. and the Fascist evacu-
ated 1t.
To ProseIytixe Among seamen.
An important agreement was reached
between Commander Rizzo. president OF
the Federation of Seamen. who distin-
guished himself during the war by sink
ing an Austrian battleship almost single
hanf d in the harbor of Pola, and the
Fascist, which recognizes the Fascistis'