"A GANG OF CRIMINALS"

Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 64, 13 September 1926, Page 9

"A GANG OF CRIMINALS"

MUSSOLINI'S ALLUSION TO

PLOTTERS.

ROME, 12th September.

Giovannini told tho police he had waited iv a cafe for an hour for Signor Mussolini to pass.

Tho Premier, addressing a crowd assembled in front of the Chigi Palace, began in stentorian tones: "Romans and Black Shirts. In the formidable crisis in which you greet me I feel the plenitude of your faith and devotion. I ask you to remember Gasilini, who fell exactly two years earlier by a criminal hand." The crowd, which greeted the Premier with the greatest enthusiasm, then saluted the dead comrade witoutstretched arms. VIOLENCE EEYOND FRONTIERS. Signor Mussolini, in a brief message to the Italian Delegation at Geneva, barely related facts, and concluded: "I beg you to prevent the dissemination of exaggerated and distortc.l reports. We must end these culpable, unheard-of acts of violence beyond our frontiers." Tho Premier proceded: "If any value is attached to Italy's friendship, it may be fatally compromised by episodes of this kind." It is believed that Giovanuini came from France. Signor Mussolini stated in an address to the crowd that measures must be adopted to prevent these outrages, including capital punishment, adding that this .was not for his own sake, because he loved to live in the midst of real danger, but for the sake of the Italian nation. "I cannot and must not. be disturbed periodically by a gang of criminals.''

Indescribable scenes of enthusiasm followed the speech.