WAR ON FASCISTS.

Gisborne Times, Volume LXVIII, Issue 10721, 19 October 1928, Page 5

WAR ON FASCISTS.

COMMUNISTS KILL TWO MEN

SENTENCED TO DFLATH

United Presa Asun. by El. Tel. Copyrijli'

(Australian Press Association.)

ROME, Oct. 17

The frst death sentence since the restoration of the penalty was imposed at the Ponce sessions on the Communist, Della Maggiora, who adriutted that he came from France to shoot the Fascist Mayor, who was absent, so he killed a tailor and vine merchant, . He said he intended shooting Fascists until he was arrested.

His accomplice, Spadoni, was sentenced to 18 years’ imprisonment.

NO appeal permissible.

EXECUTION LIKELY WITHIN TWENTY-FOUR HOURS

Ouiiett Press Asbu. by El. Tel. Copyrigbi

lAustralian Preaa Assn.) (Received Oct. 18, 11 p.m.) LONDON, Oct. 17. A Rome correspondent says that, under the Defence of State Act, no appeal is permissible and only the King is able to grant a reprieve. Consequently, in view of the satisfaction with which the sentence is being greeted! throughout Italy, Maggiora is most likely to be shot within twenty-four hours in accordance with a, special law. The Public Prosecutor’s argument, that the murder of Fascists because they are Fascists and therefore men representing the safeguarding of the regime and the State, indicates that whoever, henceforth, attempts a Fascist’s life as a; Fascist will be treated as attacking the security of the State.