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Show IMYMAYHAVE INDIISJIMAR Rome. April 25 via Paris. A faction fac-tion of the Socialists which is vigorously vigor-ously opposed to participation by Italy It-aly in the -war. is planning to bring about in case mobilization of the army ar-my Ifl ordered, a general strike throughout Ttaly. The great majority major-ity of he Socialists, however, are not in sympathy t ith such a plan and 6ay it could but fall. Paris. April 2 Mariel Cachim. a Paris deputy, telegraphs from northern north-ern Italy the following: ' The hour of Italy's intervention in the war is about to Bound There in no Italian who doe6 not say he feels ihis. There is nothing but war talk in the streets, hotels and trains. There ore a thousand indication of war at every hand, and in the last few days events have stumbled over one another anoth-er with such startling rapidity that the explosion may occur at any moment- "Four hundred thousand Italian troops are massed on tbe Austrian frontier and every train to northern Italy is filled with soldiers. All have nmis. horses and ammunition The concentration has been silently but methodically carried out during the last few weeks and Italy now has 1.-(00.000 1.-(00.000 men ready to fight and already al-ready quartered on the future battle-lield. battle-lield. "The whole country is preparing hospitals and ambulanres. The municipality mu-nicipality of Milan is building rails between the rail and tram ways for tbe rapid transportation of the wounded. wound-ed. There are twenty-four military hospitals in Milan alone. "The state has requisitioned ships in all the ports and i6 suspending commercial navigation." |