Rome, Feb. 25.
Three thousand Italians residing in France are returning to Italy today in connection with Italy's repatria tion policy, authoritative "Il Messaggero" announced. additional Italians residing in Corsica made it known that they were shortly embarking to return to Italy permanently, the journal said.
The "Popolo di Roma," in reprinting excerpts from the Paris newspaper "L'Ordre," attacked the French journal.
"L'Ordre" claimed there are over 1,000,000 Italians in France. It also charged they constitute a serious problem because, owing to Italian Fascism, they can not be absorbed by France as wes possible before Fascism. The paper also demanded the adoption of severe measures for the control of Italians in France as soon as possible to-prevent the number increasing.
The "Popolo di Roma" in its attack said, "these Italians, therefore, constitute, according to this Bolshevik lying newspaper, a great danger for France."—United Press.
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