TERRIBLE INDICTMENT

Feilding Star, Volume 7, Issue 2380, 5 December 1929, Page 5

TERRIBLE INDICTMENT

MUSSOLTNI MISRULE

ACCORDING TO AN OPPONENT

(Aust. and N.Z." 'Cable) Received Doc. 5. II a.m.) London, December 4

The general -situation in Italy ?s going from had to worse, declares. Signor Rosselli. who is at present ’visiting London. . ' He says the best proof that the Racist Regime has not got the country’s Support is that Premier Mussolini cannot govern without terrible; exceptional laws passed in 1926. The prisons throughout Italy especially in the south arc full of people whose only crime is that they are no; in sympathy with the regime. They, are subjected to the most shocking, tortures, the latest being fo tie fine prisoner in a chair and strike him heavily repeatedly over the heart with a rubber-covered hammer. Re-, prisals against the families of anfiiFascisfs have now become part of. Italy’s legal system, thousands oft. Italian homes being ransacked, fibe furniture being destroyed in front of fihe helpless women.