DUCE PAYS A BRIBE
Alleged Confession Of Murder By Exiled Italian ANTI-FASCIST DONE TO DEATH Rec. 11.30 a.m. LONDON, June 11. A correspondent of the Associated Press has sent from Cairo a photostatic copy of a letter from Amerigo Dumini to Marshal de Bono, in which Dumini confesses to the murder of the Italian Socialist leader, Giacomo Mateotti, and declares that he received 190,000 lire from Mussolini "to put me straight." The letter is published in the anti-Fascist paper, "Correre d'ltalia." Dumini lived in Derna, and the letter, dated 28/10/33, was found when the British captured the town last January. Dumini told the Associated Press correspondent that he waited for the entry of the British, because he preferred capture to living under Fascist rule. He was exiled to Libya in 1934 for antiFascist activities. The letter tells a terrible tale o? persecution by Italian police.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXII, Issue 137, 12 June 1941, Page 7
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