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Show ITALY RESENTS CHARGE THAT NEWS 'DOCTORED7 NEW YORK, May 27. Premier Nittl of Italy, In a despatch to Italian authorities hero says there- exists in various European capitals a slanderous slander-ous plan whereby news without. foundation found-ation or entirely distorted. Is given out for transmission to America for purely speculative purposes. The Italian headquai'ters statement answers specifically a despatch from London on May 21 which said that news reports recoived from the Italian capital were considerably mutilated. This dispatch also said that Italy's political situation was causing anxiety among the entente powers, which was onhanced by the Inability to get reliable re-liable news as to what was happening In that country. Italian authorities hero cabled tho dispatches to Premier Nittl who, In reply, re-ply, condomned these London reports as "absolutely false," and a result of a campaign launched to tho detriment of Italy. "In reality." said the premier, "the work of demobilization Is progressing regularly and .gradually, in full compliance com-pliance with orders issued by the Ital-an Ital-an army and everywhere respected, strikes havo practically ceased and Internal conditions are normal." |