The Daily Worker

FACTION STRIFE RAGES IN ITALY;
FASCISTI SPLIT
Farinacci Leads Army Against Mussolini

(Special to The Daily Worker)

BERLIN, April 27.-Reports from the Swiss-Italian frontier, claimed to be absolutely reliable, tell of severe factional strife in the fascist ranks in the provinces of Venice, Trent and Udine. The report says that Signor Farinacci, recently resigned as secretary of the fascist party has led an army against other fascist divisions supporting Mussolini.

LONDON, April 27.-The correspondent of the London Daily Herald, stationed at Chiazzo, Switzerland, claims to be able authoritatively to report that the Italian war office is making extensive preparations for a June mobilization of the army. He reports particularly intense activity among the army divisions on the Adriatic coast.

Internal Trouble,

The same correspondent has, during the past several weeks, sent various dispatches to his paper telling of severe internal conflicts within the fascist party. It is known that Mussolini has been very much discredited. Signor Farinacci's resignation as secretary of the fascist party was closely bound up with Mussolini's unpopularity preceding his trip to Tripoli.

The Nationalists.

The resignation of Farinacci and the whole party cabinet with him was taken as a protest against the growing influence of Federzoni, minister of the interior and leader of the nationalists. Farinacci is the head of the "pure" fascisti. These resent the growth of the nationalists and broke with Mussolini when he attempted to smooth out the quarrels between the two while at the same time preserving his own power and standing.

The Chiazzo correspondent has been predicting open fighting in the fascist ranks when these contestants in the party are no longer able to restrain themselves for the sake of "party unity" as they have been doing so far.

Tyrol Still Problem.

BASEL, Switzerland, April 27-The problem of the Southern Tyrol, habitation of a large German minority under Italian rule, remains a very delicate political problem to test Mussolini's patience. The German residents, resisting the efforts of the fascisti to completely Italianize them by refusing German to be taught in the schools, are very resentful of Italian rule. The population of 150,000 Germans in Upper Adige, which they themselves call Southern Tyrol, really dominate the region.