The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-04-16
? \ R I ' WARP ARE MAY PLUNGE II TALy
 |NTO REVOLUTION
MussoIini Serves Notice to His Followers to Stand
 Ready For Battle

ROME. April 15,-Threatened with a cabinet crisis that may destroy
 his authority over Italy, Premier
 Benito Mussolini called on all fas- cisti Sunday to be ready for an other and greater revolution.
 The destruction of his government
 by the populist party and the fail-
 ure of the vatican to come to his
 support must reawaken the dormant
 fighting spirit of the fascist, he de- clared to an assembly of blackshirts in Milan.
 Keep your legion full of moral and material efficiency. ready mo-
 mentarly to e1Awer my call for an inexorable coreSnuation of the fas- cisti revoiution," he said. Minister Bianchi went even fur l ther. Asked what effect the oppo- sition of the four populist mem
 bers of the cabinet would have aft party at Turin. Bianchi said:
 The march on Rome was only the beginning of the fascist government which must be completed. What we did not do then we shall not hesi- tate to do today. not for the pleas ure of remaining in power but be- cause a victorious anti-fascisti movement would plunge the country i into chaos and ruin.
 Demand Electoral Reform. Only another extreme anti-par- 1 tliamentary party could succeed the fascisti-namely the communist 1 party.
 Electoral reform must be accom- plished. even by royal decree, if necessary.
 If the populist members of the l cabinet resign. the crisis will be 1 solved in one hour, Any parliamen- lowed by disbandment of the cham ] Der"
 Premier Mussolini set out boldly
 to meet the populist drift to the left
 declaring open tactics were all that could break up the slowly forming
 bloc" that threatened his regime ! He therefore served notice on the | four populist cabinet members to
 meet him here Tuesday when he would serve notice they must either embrace the fascist cause or resign 1 Developments Sunday, however, in- 1 troduced new complications which
 may make this action unfeasible. The 1 Natican's approval of the decisions
 of the Turin congress was an un-
 look ed-for blow. as Mussolini had
 counted on Catholic support in re-
 turn for fascist friendship and the
 restoration of the crucifix in the schools.
 Socialist Body Meets.
 Another menace lay In the meet ing of the socialist congress at Mi Ian Sunday. the chief agenda of which was discussion of possible fu- . sino with the communists. In case the union is made. a workable ar engagement could easily be effected with the populists whereby the rule of Mussolini might be overthrown.
 In view of these developments the premier may be forced to abandon his ultimatum to the populist cabi- : net members. Minister Bianchi hint 1 ed that Mussolini was considering l compromise measures to allow the 1 populists to remain the cabinet with
 out extreme danger to the ruling I party.
 Mussolini has become as great q i figure of national interest as Lloyd
 George in England preceding his
 downfall. At Forli, his home town i where the premier stopped late Sun 1 day on his way to Bologna the en- tire population turned out to wei { come their native son. Fascist troops
 marched in review before him. the
 mayor draped him with national banners. and long lines of peasants
 crowded to shake hands with him A committee handed Mussolini a deed to the small house where he was born. while friends placed wreaths i on his mothers grave in the little 1 rural cemetery.