SHOT WRONG WAY.

Auckland Star, Volume LVI, Issue 125, 29 May 1925, Page 7

SHOT WRONG WAY.

ANTI-BANDIT WEAPON. INVENTOR'S FATE. ' SAN FRANCISCO, May 16. Oration Moreau, aged 62, patented many time-savers for housewives, but has been himself killed by his latest invention. he had perfecte/1 a device consisting of a brass cylinder and a plung»r, which fitted in the coat sleeve in such a manner that when a citizen raised hie arms in response to a burglar's demand, "Hands up!" the weapon would be discharged ani kill or disable the bandit standing in front of his intended victim. Moreau died as the result of an accident which occurred while testing the device. INTOLERANCE OF FASCISM. ITALIAN DEPUTY'S ATTACK. LONDON, May 14 Signor Slurzo, leader of the Popular party in the Italian Parliament, writing in the ■•Westminfter Gazette," says all nine Italian Parties oppose Kasciam, which has two ,= rra!l gTotips of Biipporters. The reason for opposition is the systematic violation of civil and political libfrtips by Sijmor Mussolini's Government on the ground that necessity knows no law, but there are no circumstances which justify suspending the operation of the Constitution. Thf: principal charge against the Government is incapacity to prevent political crimes and the fact, that the extreme Fascisti demand the introduction of exile, internment and death as penalties for political offences directed against one section of the citizen?. The- kidnapping and murder of Signor Matteotti, the deputy, means for Italy what the Dreyfus case meant for France, but there will be no revolution since the constitutional institutions of other countries have survived more difficult tests. The "Westminster Gazette,' , in a leading article, accuses Signor Mussolini of megalomania and quotes a story of the repression and outrage connected with the confiscation of the "Corriere Delia Sera,' , an important evening journal in Home. Such methods, it says, cannot continue. Signor Mussolini cannot turn back. He must rely on the. extremists, but he should limit his excesses before the Constitution goes down to ruin.