PLOT TO MURDER ITALIAN PREMIER

Bay of Plenty Times, Volume LIV, Issue 9029, 7 November 1925, Page 5

PLOT TO MURDER ITALIAN PREMIER

FKUSTKATEU BY POLICE. .By Tel.*-Press Assoc. Copyright Anst. N.Z CaLle Assoc, llec Nov 7, 5.5 a.m. London, Nov 5 > Tiie Daily Express’s Koine correspondent says that it is officially . slated that Zaniboni made the most . careful preparations to assassinate . Signor Mussolini (Prime Minister). 1 Everything was in readiness, inj chitling a motor car for escape, but , the police received the information at the eleventh hour and forced Zaniboni’s room at the hotel OraI goni. and found the bombs. It is j j stated that the room resembled a miniature arsenal. It had been rented a day before Zanboni s arrival by a pale little man, who 1 asked for a front room with a balcony. Ho hired the front room 1 for himself in another hotel near- ’ by. It is believed that the plan ; was to throw a bomb or explode an infernal machine as Signor Mussolhii waa due to the leave the Foreign Office. The police also arrested the .pal© little man and one of the editors , of the newspaper Popolo. , Zaniboni since Signor Matteoti’s „ death had been actively engaged in anti-Fascism. Further reference to this article will be found on page 3.