The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-12-07

chief of staff Of the army, nad started an inspection of military bases and the military establishment generally in Sardinia. Demonstra- tions wer eheld at Turin, Florence and Naples as well as other cities. At Naples hundreds of students marched through main streets sing ing fascist anthems and shouting: Long live Italian Tunis!" In the principal square of Naples, the stu dents joined 1000 eXcursionists of the German Nazi labor front and marched with them to the German consulate where they cheered Pre- mier Benito Mussolini and Fuehrer Adolf Hitler.
 Hitler Is Cheered
 At Turin 5000 students paraded to the German consulate and cheer ed Hitler. A consular official ap- peared on balcony to acknowledge the cheers. Then the students marched in silence past the French consulate, restraining their hostile cries until they had passed it.
 Students and fascistS demonstrat- ed at Florence.
 Reports received here said that all demonstra tions were orderly.
 There was no indication whether Gen. Pariani's visit to Sardinia CO., incided only by chance with mount ing anti-French feeling. In any event Sardinia is of great military importance and it is separated by only the 10 miles of the strait of Bonifacio from French Corsica.
 Newspapers published conspic- ucusly reports of student demon strations against France yesterday in Rome, Milan, Turin and Genoa, with their shouts for acquisition of Corsica and French Tunis.
 Bitter Against France
 Feeling against France was stirred further by a Tunis dispatch in the the newspaper Popolo Di Roma to- day, charging serious anti-Italian outbreaks.
 It was alleged that anti-Italian demonstrators tried to force Italian laborers to lower the Italian flag which had been hoisted over the newly completed Italian hospital, but failed.
 Fifty Italians were attacked and injured in isolated incidents, includ- ing a physician of the Italian hoSpi- tai and his wife and daughter, the newspaper charged.
 It was asserted that 10 Italians had been arrested, even though they were victims of aggression, while Frenchmen and Jews asserted dur ing weekend anti-Italian demor- strations had been released.
 Popolo Di Roma said that French newspapers of Tunis demanded severe measures against the Italian newspaper Unione, and melted Jew ish students to exact reprisals against it.
 Resignations in Order
 The newspaper said also that the French president of the Italo-French league in France had resigned in protest against Italy's attitude and that in retaliation Italian members of French Ritary clubs decided to resign en nasse.
 Semi-official fascist sources de- scribed yesterdays anti-French demonstrations in Italian cities as spontaneous protests against off, cially organized anti-Italian riots in Tunis and Corsica.
 An official of the French embassy said that no protest was planned against the demonstrations because none of those involved reached the embassy building or damaged French property.
 Foreign diplomats, while admit ting that the anti-French demon strations threw an ugly light on Italian French relations, said they did not believe that the situation was likely to become more serious. They interpreted the demonstra- tions as a reprisal against anti Italian demonstrations in Tunis and Corsica.