FEROCIOUS FASCISMO.

Auckland Star, Volume LVI, Issue 232, 1 October 1925, Page 7

FEROCIOUS FASCISMO.

ENGLISHMAN'S DISCLOSURES. MTJSSOtLINI THE TERRORIST. HORRORS OF REFORM." jfßy Cabl<v— rrcss Association.—Copyrlght-l '"Received .10.30 a.m.' LONDON. September 30. Mr. Hugh Redwood, in his third article. « ays a visitor to Italy sees i little of Fascist terrorism and much of I Fascist efficiency. Trains travel quicker. | property'is safer, trade is expanding, but l terror is* there. Fear is omnipresent. j Non-Fascists are often afraid of their lives", and are continually on the alert , owing to repeated raids and lootings. Many nvvyors. deputies and Labour leaders bave been driven away, and steal bade at night-time to visit their families.

Fascism has gagged the Press, made the el-ectiins a farce, forced the workers and peasants into its trade unions by the violence of economic pressure, burned I .abour exchanges to prevent non-Fascii-ts from securing work, dismissed non-Fascist magistrates, and is now seeking to dismiss non-Fascist Civil servants. It has created dictatorships in the municipali ties, and has also appointed provincial chieftain, who are of*en criminals, with authority over the police and the 5 lagistracv.

The imrrder of Matteotti. the Socialist M.P.. wa; followed by a series of outrages against the Fascists' most distinguished opponents.

Fascist; . actios under orders, twice assaulted! Count Sforza. ex-Foreign Minister. They tired revolver shots at hi? wife, and imprisoned his brother, because i c bad a Mass said in memory of Signor Matteotti.

They n lso assaulted Sienor Orlando. ex-Premii r. wrecked and looted the house of Sisnor Nitti. ex-Premier, and twice attacked Sisnor Amendola. exMinister of the Colonies.

t- 7 havt-." writes Mr. Redwood, "seen a letter Mussolini wrote and sifmed. ordering :a provincial prefect to make a well-knowti litterateurs life impossible. Peroni. a Fascist militiaman, gave evidence thn t he attacked Amendola on the t.orders of Mussolini, and General Debono, ! General of Police. After this lan attemjit was made to poison Peroni: also attempts to murder Deputies Forni land Misiirl, who seceded from Fascism. 1 ("Sun."') 1