PLOT IN ITALY.

Auckland Star, Volume LVIII, Issue 276, 22 November 1927, Page 7

PLOT IN ITALY.

AIMED AT PREMIER.

Fascists Tiring Of Mussolini Regime.

ENEMIES SPEEDILY BANISHED.

(By Cable.—Press Association.—Copyright.)

LONDON, November 21.

The Paris correspondent of the "Daily Chronicle" says messages from the Italian frontier, "which escaped the Fascist censorship, disclose a great plot aimed at the Prime Minister, Signor Massolini.

Six leading Italians, including General Bencivenga, Lave been arrested. The general was the Deputy-Chief of the General Staff in the war. With him were arrested a member of Parliament, Ponzio, the holder of the golden medal and a famous war hero.

This suggests that the great associations of ex-service men, who once were Fascists to a man, are growing impatient of the Fascist regime. This belief is strengthened by the fact that Signor Bergman, the first president of the National Association of ex-Soldiers, has been arrested in Milan.

Five of the six arrests were made in Northern Italy, which is a Fascist stronghold. A special tribunal has already condemned 323 of Mussolini's political enemies, apart from sentences on hundreds of others, who have been banished to unhealthy islands off the coast of Sicily. " v