FASCIST RIOTS.

Press, Volume LXI, Issue 18506, 7 October 1925, Page 9

FASCIST RIOTS.

ANTI-MASONIC AGITATION, j MURDER AND LOOTING IN ! FLORENCE. (PV CAJtI.K—PRESS ASSCnATIOK-COrTBIGHI.; (AUSTRALIA* AND >'■-• CABLE ASSOCIATION.) (Received October 6th, 7.-0 p.m.) LONDON. October ">. The Rome correspondent of the ■•Daily Telegraph'' states that, the riots sit- Forcnce were due to the antiMasonic agitations which have commenced. 6iguor BandinellL, a well-known Freemason, was railed to the Fasc'st Club to give an explanation of his conduct. Lnporini, with a party of Fascists, motored to Bartdinelli's flat to enforce the request, but Bandiuclli refused, knowing the practice of the. Fascists of iriv-itin- opponents to headquarters, where "they administered phys-cal correction. A neighbour named Bocciolini heard Bandinelli's refusal and intervened. He apparently wounded with a revolver two Fascists, including Luporini, whereupon BandmolK and Bocciolini fled. Bandinelli is still in hiding, but the Fascists jOiind 'Bocciolini concealing himself behind a chimney on the root. Thev dragged him into the street where seven bullets were fired into his body. Meanwhile gangs of Fascists wrecked several flats and looted a number of shops. .

DEATH FOLLOWS FRACAS. (REUTEB'S TBLEGBAUS.) ROME, October o. Bocciolini, murderer of Luporini,'a prominent Fascist at Florence, died from injuries received, also a man named Consolo, who was seriously Hurt in the fracas. Complete, and tranquillity now prevail, as a result of police measures. CLASH WITH SOCIALISTS. (Stdnet "Suit" Sebvice.) ROME, October r>. Three were killed and ouo seriously injured as a result of a fierce outbreak among antagonistic Fascist and Socialist forces. Tho rioters entered the conflict armed with clubs, and they wrecked shops and offices.