ATTACK ON MUSSOLINI

Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 118, 14 November 1929, Page 9

ATTACK ON MUSSOLINI

REPETITION OF STORY

REVOLT AT SOLMONA

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PARIS, 12th November.

Despite Rome's denials of tho attempt on the life of Signor Mussolini, the "Petite Nicois," a paper printed at Nice, published an account by a correspondent who spent ten days in Italy investigating the affair. The correspondent says that on 10th October Signor Mussolini, accompanied by others, motored to Ostia. Signor Mussolini, quite by chance, travelled in tho Ministers' instead of his own ear. Later, upon his arrival at Ostia, his car was fired on and his Secretary was hit on the thigh by a rifle bullet. The police immediately searched the onlookers, and it was finally revealed that a Fascist officer was guilty. The officer confessed, and was executed the same evening without trial.

Grave troubles are reported from the interior of Italy, owing to the high cost of living and the shortage of food. There was a nine days' revolt at Solmona, where the Governor was killed, the Town Hall and barracks wero burned, and martial law was declared. A strong body of Fascists fought a pitched battle, in which five townsfolk were killed and a hundred injured.