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Show ALARMING REPORT1 FROMJTRIESTE; Italian Residents Arrested for Anti-war Demonstrations Schools Transformed Into Jails. SHOPS ARE CLOSED Situation Aggravated by Storing Stor-ing Supplies at Pola in Preparation for Siege. Rome, April 23, 8:25 p. m., via Paris, April 24. 4:25 a. m. Alarming reports from Trieste still are being received. Most of the male residents of the city are serving in the army and the majority ma-jority of those remaining are said to have been arrested for participating in antl war demonstrations So many were taken In custody that all of them could not be lodged in the prison pris-on and the police chief asked per mission from the municipality to transform a large school building into a jail. The shops of the city have been closed for fear of pillage The mayor attempted to quell the disorders by announcing that sufficient suffi-cient bread would be baked to supply the needs of the people and that potatoes po-tatoes would be sold for five cents a kilo (2.20 pounds) The situation ha3 been aggraated by the belief that large quantities have been stored at Pola in preparation for a possible siege. oo |