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Finance Minister Signor Alberto de Stefani announced to the Italian Bankers' Association that there will be no deficit in the forthcoming budget, due to great reduction in the public debt during the present financial year.

On the Rome Stock Exchange Italian consols rose over par. Cataclysmic excitement : "Viva Italia!" "Viva Mussolini!" "Viva 'de Stefani!" and numerous other vivas were shouted, cried and sobbed.

Too many Italians may not come to the U. S., so they are going to France. More than 100,000 were reported to have moved across the frontier to the South of France since Jan. 1. The French, short of labor, were pleased. It was rumored that Benito was silently encouraging the emigration of Italians to the districts of former Italian Savoy and Nice, wrested from Italy during the days of Napoleon III, in order to prepare the way for any plebiscite that might take place in the future.

The body of Signora Eleanora Duse, famed Italian tragedienne, was laid in its final resting place under the shade of the cypress trees in the little cemetery at Asola. It was there that the actress wished to be buried.

Alexis Ivanovitch Rykov, President of the Council of Commissars of Sovietland, spent several weeks in Rome, seeking a cure for bronchitis, announced the Russian Embassy of that city. He took the precaution of preserving strictest incognito for fear of assassination.

Professor Caselli, famed Italian seismologist (earthquake scientist), claimed to have perfected a device for detecting earthquakes 15 minutes before they begin to quake the earth. The invention, he said, will minimize the loss of life.