If you imagine that the postal and telegraphic services in the Upper Adige are in Italian hands, you are much mistaken. The Deutscher Verband has control of all the communications and disposes of them at its pleasure. Although 24th April was a holiday, the Pangermans and the heads of the movement at Innsbruck were kept informed all along of the development of events at Bolzano, while all communications with the civil and military authorities were cut and the town completely isolated from Trento and the rest of Italy for twenty-four hours. This is the situation. _What the Fascisti ask as regards the Upper Adige._ Gentlemen of the Government, as regards the Upper Adige, we ask you for these immediate measures: 1. The abolition of everything which reminds us of the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy, even in outward form. Because I wish to say to the House that it is useless to make compacts to prevent the return of the Hapsburgs with the Austrian heirs, who are more Austrian than Austria, when we leave a great part of Austria intact within our own boundaries. 2. The dissolution of the Deutscher Verband. 3. The immediate dismissal of the two Italian governors. 4. The formation of a united province of Trento with the administration at Trento, and the strictest observance of the use of the two languages in every act of public administration. I do not know what measures will be adopted by the Government in these cases, but I hereby declare, and I do so before the four German deputies that they may repeat it and make it known beyond the Brenner, that there we are and there we mean to stay at all costs. (Applause.) _Giolitti_ (Prime Minister and Minister of the Interior). Upon this we are all agreed. (Applause.) _Mussolini._ I note with pleasure the explicit declaration the Prime Minister has just made. THE QUESTION OF MONTENEGRO’S INDEPENDENCE Same speech delivered in the Chamber, 21st June 1921. _Hon. Mussolini._ What is going to be our line of policy in view of the vast field for disagreement which has been left by the peace treaty, or rather peace treaties, all over the world? I shall not touch upon the quarrel between Greece and Turkey, although inconceivable complications may result if it is true, as is said, that Lenin is an ally of Kemal Pasha and has already despatched the advance guard of the Red army to Asia Minor. Neither shall I speak of Upper Silesia, as I have not yet succeeded in defining the attitude of the Government on this question. Egypt, again, I shall leave untouched. But I cannot hold my peace about the fate prepared for Montenegro.