FASCIST JUSTICE.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20341, 23 August 1929, Page 11

FASCIST JUSTICE.

BRITISH WOMAN ARRESTED. HUSBAND'S PREVIOUS ESCAPE. LONDON, Au S . 13. Professor Cailo Tloselli recently escaped from the island of Lipari, known as the Italian "Devil's Island." He had been confined there as a political prisoner by the Fascist Government because he had assisted Signor Turati, the former Secre-tary-General of the Fascist organisation, to slip out of Italy.

To-day the professor received news, telegraphs the Paris correspondent of the Times, that his wife, who is of British birth, and his brother, have been arrested. His wife, who was Miss Marian Cave, a native of Middlesex, formerly taught English in Florence.

Signora Roselli was arrested when her husband's escape became known, and spent the night in the lock-up at the police station. Later, owing to her weak health, she was moved to a hotel, under direct police supervision, and subjected to exhaustive interrogations. Dr. Nello Roselli has been sent to Ustica, off the north coast of Sicily, regarded as one of the worst convict islands, where only unusually undesirable political prisoners are sent.

Among the 20 prisoners now there, with 800 ordinary convicts, is General Bencinenca, once secretary to General Cadorna, the Italian commander-in-chief in the earlier part of the war, and later president of the Roman Press Association.

All naturalised aliens are British subjects owning allegiance to the Crown, but should an Englishwoman marry an alien, she loses her original nationality and the protection of British law. On the death or divorce of the husband she can revert to her original nationality,,on conforming to the prescribed conditions of the Naturalisation of Aliens Act.