FASCIST ITALY
A STRIKING CRITICISM. United Press Association.—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) ('Received this day at 9. a.m.) LONDON, Dee. 4. “The general situation in Italy is going from Iliad to worse,” declares Roselli (cabled Kith. Sept.) who at present is visiting London. The best proof that the Fascist Regime has not got the country’s support is that Mussolini cannot govern without the ter■rjblc Exceptional Laws passed iri!l926j. ' Rose Hi:! jaSS&rte;. ;fcha.t the prisons throughout Italy, especially in the south, are full of -people, their only crime being that, the .are not in sympathy with the Regime. They are subjected to the most shocking tortures, the latest being to'tie the prisoner m a! chair and strike ; him hegvily ;i ana "repeatedly over the heart with a rubber covered hammer. Reprisals against families o? antiFascists luive : nbw become part of Tta’fv’s legal! system. Thousands of Italian homes have been ransacked and furniture destroyed in front of helpless women and children.
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Hokitika Guardian, 5 December 1929, Page 6
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