RESCUED PROM FASCIST TYRANNY.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 11 March 1930, Page 8

RESCUED PROM FASCIST TYRANNY.

IN CHAINS FOR FIVE TEARS. (Sydney Sun.) LONDON, March 9. The escape from Lipari (Italy’s "Devil’s Island”), in company with Emilio Lusau, of Carlo Roselli, last year, is described by Francesco Nittx, nephew of the ex-Premier of Italy, in "Escape,” to be published by Putnams this month, despite allegedly Fascist threats to blow up the London offices.

When another anti-Fascist deportee nicknamed "Fortunio, ” left Lipari at the conclnainon Of a sentence, it was arranged that he go abroad, secure a foreign motor boat, and pick up refugees off a rock point on an appointed evening. Three swam off, but the boat did not come owing to a storm. DASH TO LIBERTY.

Later, an underground message appointed February 28 for a fresh attempt. Nitti swam naked to _ the launch. An hour later his* friends swam out. to the launch, -which eluded the patrol and dashed full speed through a fishing fleet. Nitti states that he was deported to Lipari and chained for five years, without trial, on a charge of conspiring amainst the Government. The proofs given in support, of the charge were that ho lived a serious, secluded life, avoided women, and had democratic uncle, in the introduction, says that giving the names of the rescuers "would expose their families t y atrocious persecution. Signor Roselli had been committed to Vrnri Ff 'f-’Hing a former Fascist official to leave Italy. He asserted in London that the prisons throughout Italy were full of people whoso only crime was that they were not in sympathy with the existing regime. They were subjected to the most shocking tortures. -