FASCIST LEADERS
SENTENCED TO DEATH COUNT CIANO INCLUDED RUGBY, Jan. 10. Count Ciano, Mussolini’s son-in-law, Marshal de Bono, and other notorious Fascist leaders who voted for the deposition of the Duce, have been sentenced to death by a special Fascist tribunal in Northern Italy. The Zurich correspondent of the" Daily Telegraph reports that the trial began on Saturday of Count Ciano. General de Bono (the former supreme commander of the Italian Army), Signor Marinelli (ex-director of the
Fascist Party), Signor Gottardi (extrade union chief), Signor Cianetti (exMinister of Fascist Corporations), and Signor Pareschi (ex-Minister- of Agriculture). The opening stages of the trial are not reported in the neoFascist press. The German News Agency announced: “The trial of the signatories of the order of the day drawn up by Grandi for the session of the Fascist Grand Council leading to the wellknown events of July 25 has been taking place at Castle Vecchio, Verona, since January 8. All the accused were sentenced to death except Cianetti, who was sentenced to 30 years’ penal servitude.” The News Agency added that .18 were sentenced to death, 13 of whom were absent.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 25431, 12 January 1944, Page 3
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