OCR Text |
Show oo MILITARY ESCORT I FOR A CARNIVAL: Rome. Sept 29 The unusual spec tacle of a military escort for a church dignitary was seen In the suburbs oi Marino yesterday when Cardinal AgM ardl was driven through the strets with fifty mounted carabineers and some detectives on bicycles alongside his carriage. The precaution were taken be-caus antl-clerlcals opposed to the holding, of the annual cabinet convention at Marino threatened to make trouble i Cardinal Agllardi presided at the con cni ion When ho learned of the ar rangemcut for an 'scort he told his secretary that he feared nothing. "I am SO years old and at my age it is the 8am thing whether I die In a carriage or in bed," he said. The prelate met with no untoward incident, inci-dent, but later In the day there wr.a a street row lint ween the anti-cleric als and Catholics in which nearly two score persons were wounded and morf than a hundred arrests were made |