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CONDITIONS IN ITALY.
SHOCKING TORTURES ALLEGED. ANTI-FASCISTS IN PRTSON. (United Press Association—Copyright.) (Received This Day, 8 f 55 a.m.) LONDON, December I. The general situation in Italy is rr-oing from bad to worse, . declares Signer Rosselli, who is visiting Lon°The best proof that the Fascist regime has not got the country s support is that Signor Mussolini cannot govern without the terrible and exceptional laws passed in 1926. Signor Roselli asserts that the prisons throughout Italy, especially in the south, are full of people whose only crime is that they are not in sympathy with the regime. They are subjected to the most shocking tortures, the latest being to tie the prisoner to a chair, strike him heavily and repeatedly over the heart with a rubber-covered hammer. Reprisals against the families of anti-Fascists have become part of Italy's legal system. Thousands ol Italian homes have been ransacked the furniture being destroyed ill front of helpless! women.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 50, Issue 47, 5 December 1929, Page 5
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