REVOLUTION.

Auckland Star, Volume LXI, Issue 123, 27 May 1930, Page 7

REVOLUTION.

• MEANING OF FASCISM. Mussolini "Head and Creator Of Insurrection." SPEECH AT MILAN. (United P.A.-Blectric Telegraph-Copyright) HOME, May 26. Scenes similar to those -which marked the reception given to the Prime Minister, Signor Mussolini, at Florence, were repeated at Milan during the celebration of the 15th anniversary of Italy's intervention in the Great War. It is estimated that 200,000 people were present when Signor Mussolini mounted a rostrum on the piazza outside . Milan Cathedral. The streets, windows and roofs were black with spectators and even the gargoyles on the Cathedral were 'festooned with humanity.

The Prime Minister said his hearers would not expect him to supplement his Florence speech upon which he had meditated for a long time before it was delivered. He had made that speech for the purpose of not allowing the Italian people to be "lulled to sleep by the bleating of sheep which really are wolves." To those who accused him of not behaving in Ministerial style Signor Mussolini retorted that Fascism was revolution. "I am the head and creator of the insurrection," he declared. OLD ROMAN EMPIRE. "Italy Has Cast Hungriest Eyes On Malta." MINISTER'S AVOWAL. (Received 2 p.m.) LONDON, May 20. "Speaking with full responsibility, I say that there is not a shadow of doubt that Italy has cast the hungriest eyes on Malta. If the oft-mentioned scheme of the revival of the old Boman Empire means anything, Malta is designed to be the pivot," said Sir Augustus Bartolo, the Maltese Minister of Education and also Lord Strickland's deputy, when he was interviewed in London. He added that the present difficulties were political, not religious, but ecclesiastical authorities were undoubtedly helping the Nationalists. "We only claim to take our religion from Borne and our politics from ourselves."