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THE CHINA MAIL, TUESDAY, MARCH 18, 1945.

ITALIAN ELECTION: CAMPAIGN SPECULATION

No Real Clue Yet To Outcome

Rome, Mar. 14.

A high percentage of voters at the polls on April 18 will mean victory for Signor de Gasperi and the other Moderate parties in the general elections, political observers 'here belleve. No one, however, is sure how the middle class-- generally estimated at about 10 million, out of Italy's 45 million inhabitants-will vote. Generally speaking. Signor on the front page of the Vatican de Gasperi's radionl social pol- | organ Osservatore Romano. ley, Revere taxation and die.

Attacks On Reds flationary

measures have hit

the miditle class most heavily. Only time will show what Apart from this, quite a sub was the extent of the alleged Яtantial section of Italy's, mid-"falsificntions. and awindles" die class in trongly anti- which the statement in Os. clerical, is its policles and dis- | servatore, Romano gave as the Jikes the present predominance reason for banning from holy of Signor do Gampert's Chrisorders the churchman who had tian Democrats.

held a confidential post in the

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In Iceland.

Reykjavik, Mar. 14. With her crow lashed to the rigging, the 158-ton Hull, trawler Epine was to- night still stranded on rock off the west coast of Iceland, battered by a' gale and swept by heavy seas,

The ship struck the sub- merged rock late last night. Une man had been swept ashore, Efforts were still being made tonight to re- cue the crew with rocket lines from the shore, but it was feared that the only hope would be if the ship withstood the battering on the rock until the gate dies. -Reuter.

On the other hand, the mid-| Vatican's archives. The news Annam

dle class is also the most in- was n gift to the anti-clericain.. fluenced by the events in Cze- Signor de Gasperi has made choslovakia as well as by the some lively, attacks on the practical reporta of the Communists in his speeches. tremendous help given and still being given to Italy today the United States,

result in its These may throwing its weight into the balance in favour of the Moderates.

Leaders And

"Unless Italy votes for demo Bao Dai

Weapon For Left

At a recent gathering Communist lenders and

by

their political associates, a general estimate of about 11.000.000 votes for the population is re- ported to have been areupted ns probable.

There are in over 27,000,000

all something: voters on the

lists, although finál returns

may show a somewhat higher} figure.

The Centre Right will there- fore have to work hard to put a decisive majority over the Communist-dominated Popular Front If the latter's hopes are

realised.

Paris, Mar. 14.

Gasperi's Attack

On Reds

Rome, Mar. 14.

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Premier Alcide de "TREVEAN” Gasperi bitterly de- nounced Communism to- day and warned Italians to beware of losing their freedom to a "dictator- [ship of men from

other country.

an-

Speaking in the Southern province of Catanzaro, the Christian Democratic Premier charged that the Communists are planning illegal, agitation" in Italy.

His speech was one of more than a score made by the leaders of various political par ties throughout 'the Peninsula. Italy's 27,000,000:"yüters will elect their first Republican Par tion will give an indication liament on April 18, The, olec-

whether Italians look West to the United States or Eastward to Russia.

Interna-

cracy on April 18, that will bol the last election for a long! time? was one of his trenchant The Anna Administrative Coup, phrases,

¦çil today adopted a motion demand- ing the return of ex-Emperor Baa Signor Togliatti, Italy's Com-Dai to the throne. munist leader, retorted: "It The Council claimed, according to is necessary, at any time and an Agence France Prese despatch De Gasperi said it "I im- at any cost, to get power into from Saigon, that Ban Dal should possible to collaborate with the the hands of the popular masses "resume his rights and prerogatives Italian Communist Party Inso in order to prevent it coming ** Emperor In constitutional for it is part of an into the hands of those mono- monarchy. polists, capitalists and specula wish

The motion added it was their tional movement."

the abdication

Ho told tors who have already caused March, 1945, was enforced."-Reu-You have already once lost his countrymen. two world wars."-Reuter.

freedom through an Italian dictatorship. Take care you do not tomorrow again lose it, and this time not by an Italian dic- tatorship but a dictatorship of men from another_country,”— Associated Press

ter.

because

In

Yemen Capital Now

Under

Siege

Cairo, Mar. 14.

Thirty-foot high mediaeval walls, buttressed by 150 watch-towers, which surround- Sanaa, capital of The Yemen, are the only barriers left to its defences against the forces loyal to Emir Self El Islam Ahmed, the claimant to the throne, according to the latest despatches reaching here today.

Fate, no far, Is not being kind to Signor de Gasperì. The Mogadishu riots, with over 50 Italians killed, gave the Left a weapon for violent anti-British: propaganda accompanied by the suggestion that Signor de Garper was too pro-British toj Armed tribesmen supporting be able to get any satisfaction. Emir Ahmed, eldest son of the Recently there has been the Inte juler, Iman Yahya, were of Monsignor Cippico, anid to be besieging the capital affair unfrocked in ዝ

unusually and hammering the four cast strong denunciation published iron gates leading Into the city. where Abdullah EI Wazir, established as ruler after tho assassination of the 85-year- old Iman Yahya nearly a month ago, was holding out.

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Nokrashy Pasha, the Egyp tian Premier, who has been fol- the situation lowing

in The recovered. Authorities here said that rescue Yeman clonley, said the only

may,

never

parties would be up against great reliable news so far was that wide in trying to reach the scene, Sanaa was being besieged.

which is on a glacier on the 16,204. inst mountain.

The airliner, a DC+ Skymaster of Northwest Airlines, we found yeu rerday after being missing on Hight from Shanghai in St. Paul,

Minnesota. Associated Press.

*

The Egyptian Premier zotë two Egyptian planes sant to Sanaa yesterday to evacuate Egyptian citizens were unable to land in or near the capital owing to the fighting in pro-

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London, Mar, 14, The Italian armed police arrested two people when they raided ag arms store in Savone, containing six heavy

other machine guns, 6$ automatic sempatia, 400 hend and, about 25,000 rounds munition. Rome Kadio report

of

gress there, and had returned ed today, to Jeddah.

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