FASCIST REGIME

Evening Post, Issue 113, 10 November 1930, Page 9

FASCIST REGIME

FURTHER ARRESTS

PROFESSORS INCLUDED

' ROME, Bth November. A Government communique announces the arrest of twenty persons "in various localities of Northera Italy," who will be charged before a special tribunal with preparing criminal acts against the Fascist! regime. Thai communique gives no deails, and is reproduced in/the newspapers without comment. ' . '• " Nearly all those arrested are professors, lawyers, and doctors with Republican views. , They include Signor Belotti, who was Minister: of Industry, in the Bonomic Cabinet in. 1921-22. . Signor Belotti recently wrote Signor, Bonomi saying he wished to start ai literary and historical review expressing1 independent ideas. The letter .Trai opened and Signor Belotti was \ arrested. ■ ■ ' ;'.■..■•■■■' Others accused are ' Signor; Renzi, Professor of Philosophy; at Genoa University; Signor; Rossi, Professor _ of Economics at the Technical Institute at Bergamo. . , As the train conveying those arrested was starting for Rome, Signor Rossi jumped out and evaded his pursuers for twelve hours. He was recaptured, in some woods by. Fascist militiamen. The arrests are believed to havtj arisen from the clandestine circulation in Italy of the newspaper "Justice and Liberty,", published in Parii in Italian., ■ -