Show to h y lay tva TV 1 LI 01 tt e 0 ol toa oe x fan I 1 aring i 0 pr events I 1 t g red y n nit na v W whinton lun pon on dac to aff D I 1 J 1 1 1 aln I 1 CENTER OF SOCIAL earthquake ZONE milan chief city or of the L abardy piedmont region of italy winkers seized factories fa tories several months ago unil fitere eliere much enuch unrest has boen ben manifested since ha lias frankly frankey conid L red ered itsek its ek for long beirs tile hie capital the ca morale mor alel ot of the country f in the hie recent troubles rac ire reported to lo lime liae lieen been seized lv by or kinen in pratt leilly till all aarts or of italy klut but it jsn as in lombardy and hie file teril tortal divi division loI li ing farthest north lind farthest fiut liest in ill the lie pell peninsula the seats si ails of tile alie hili italian it allan metal industries that the seizures were nvere most numerous li rous in those reg regions icons in turn the hie movement was most in lind and about turin the principal city or of the Il edmont and the detroit or oc italy and in milan metropolis of the north and italis full iziver philadelphia and schenectady rolled into one lombardy and the Il edmont comprise the plains of the upper reaches ot of the great ro po valley the alpine foothills and the southern ern and eastern slopes of a large part of the hie alps them helves milan on a fertile plain near the southern edds of sonic some of the most anost important ant of the alpine passes voas as a town of considerable importance ean n tire dim historic days of B C ithen it was ioas captured by the itoman it I 1 t vas mas then as it Is today second city iu ill pol point int of population in ill italy alllan early earned carried a position of leadership alli among cong bur roundIng cities a Jeader leadership ship homeer ho weer which lid did not go unchallenged the city has been destroyed many times time once by a league of neighboring towns and at other times limes by allen alien conquerors after each I 1 destruction e ly it has sprung up on a seemingly t n g inner fernier foundation to achieve greater ter popularity and a more tar far reaching influence apart from any reputation milan ilia may y have gained as oil an index to lii ili Su lu unrest it Is a leador leader among italian tal lati cities in other respects in leed the milanese insist that their lity ity their ca morale is the tery heart and head of 0 italis mod rn life and aati first in ili industry first in municipal a I 1 pro progress ress first in n political importance tile the industrial plants of modern man have fairly burst the confines rf of the old city and many are to lie found in ill numerous populous po suburbs that have sprung up especially since 1895 1805 the population now numbers close to to three quarters of a million it Is exceeded only slightly it i at all by that of if naples kaples and is considered in excess of that of rome |