FANTASTIC PLOT RECALLED

Hawera Star, Volume L, 1 December 1930, Page 9

FANTASTIC PLOT RECALLED

S WITZERLAND EXPELS AVIATOR, I (United Press Association —By Electric Telegraph Copyright.) BERLIN, Nov. 29. The Government has .decided to expel the Italian aviator Giovanni Buzzolesi a decision which recalls a fantastic antiFascist plot in July 7 to fiy ail earoplane from France across, the Alps to Italy and drop phamplets attacking Mussolini The expulsion is based on Buzzolesi’s entry into Switzerland without a permit. Buzzolesi w 7 as gravely injured when he crashed inside the Swiss frontier in a fog while he was returning from the successful execution of his mission. Bozzolesi had persuaded the editor of a French aviation magazine to assist him to get an aeroplane. He loaded it with a hundred thousand leaflets. Ilie airman flew to Milan and cruised over the centre of the city. The sky was white with anti-Fascist literature. The Italian police marshalled their forces and snatched the'literature from the excited crowds, while fast fighting machines were sent up to catch the bold raider, but failed. The machine disappeared towards Switzerland where if crashed. Buzzolesi fled from Italy in 1928.