ITALIAN CRIME

Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 26 June 1924, Page 7

ITALIAN CRIME

MUBDEttED DEPUTY. POLITICAL TENSION. THE POPULACE AROUSED. BY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION-COPYRIGHT ROME, Juiie 24. Signor Tittoni (President of the Senate) lias expressed indignation at the murder ol fcngnor Matleotti, a deputy, and repugnance at the motives of selfinterest surrounding the crime. The decision of the Senate is that the full penalty .should fall on those responsible. Signor Mussolini has reiterated his extreme regret and horror at the crime and declared that the Fascisti Avere among the first to condemn it. Justice avou ld be meted out irrespectiA'e of persons. The fast, but this did not mean that it might be reconstructed in older to enable it the better to achieve national pacification. There Avas no question of dinging to office, but he Avould regard himself as one of the most eoAvardly of men if he shirked the moral and political responsibilities at a difficult moment. He refused to agree to a dissolution. Fascism had certainly received a liloav, but the movement had already profited, and Avould continue to profit, from the incident- in getting rid of the bad elements to Fascism. He avou Id refuse to boAY to the storm of reproach. The incidents of Bologna were indicative ol the moral and political tension, Avhieh had reached its maximum, particularly in North an'd Central Italy, Avhere Fascism aayis not strongly represented. Everything must be done to prevent the situation becoming Avorse.