DOMINATION OF FASCISM

Feilding Star, Volume 4, Issue 957, 23 November 1926, Page 5

DOMINATION OF FASCISM

OPPOSITION STIFLED LIST OF HOSTAGES DRAWN UP. THE SPY IN THE HOUSEHOLD By Telegraph—Presa Assn— Copyright (Aust. and N.2. Cable). I / London, Nov. 21. The Daily Chronicle’s special correspondent lately in Italy states that the country is being placed under the most diabolical “Dora” (the Defence*.; of the Realm Act in force in Britain in war time) it is possible to conceive. All political parties, except Fascist, are being abolished. Only Fascist newspapers are allowed to exist, and unofficially lists of hostages and of people who will be summarily executed if anything happens to Signor Mussolini are being drawn up throughout the country. . What justice, the correspondent asks, will a political prisoner receive from an. offocer of the army and five members of the Fascist militia? The \ whole procedure will be that of a courfcmartial. in. wartime. Xo one will dare to give evidence for the defence before such a packed tribunal A system of espionage is being buil t up through the concierges .which will reach every household.