FASCIST ITALY

Evening Star, Issue 19588, 21 June 1927, Page 5

FASCIST ITALY

HEIGH OF THE BLACK SHIRTS • EX-LABOR MINISTER'S STORY. Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright PARIS, June 20. Signor Labriola, who recently .made a dramatic escape from Italy, interviewed, told an amazing story of Fascist outrages. Labriola is an ex-Minister of Labor, and was formerly a colleague of Signor Mussolini, but he disapproved of the recent Fascist developments He says that tho day after the allege.l attempt on the life of Signor Mussolini at Bolonga the door of his flat was battered in by Black Shirts Labriola and his son, aged sixteen, were each put in a corner of the room. Thet were covered by revolvers, and told thev would be shot if they moved. The Black Shirts then smashed the fmm tnre and china, ripped pictures to shreds, and tore up books. Labriola declares that over 1,000 houses were similarly-treated. Signor Mussolini refused Labriola a passport, but be escaped. He says a man has oiily two chances in Italy to-day—Fascism or prison.