FASCIST WRATH

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17067, 27 September 1929, Page 11

FASCIST WRATH

ENGLISHWOMAN’S STORY

WAS CAST INTO GAOL

LONDON, September 17. Flung' into ii toll and subjected to vei v great hardships because oi her husband's anti-Fascist activities, was the experience ol Signora ilosselh, I lie t'-ng-lisli wile, ot i’rotessor liosselli, according lu the story she told tin* l/iiris etirlespondent of the Daily News. She was arrested after her husliaml had escaped from Lipari (Italy's "Devd s- Island ) last. August, t Signora Kosselli, formerly Miss Marian Cave, of Middlesex - , said that hot hupband had 'been imprisoned oil a i barge of having assisted Signor Tjirat.l, ex Secretary-Ceneral of the Fascist organisation, to slip out o! Italy. She was Hung into a cell occupied hy two women with babies, one oi whom was dying with rickets, and she was obliged to sleep in a verminous bed.

The governor of the prison said that she had been arrested as.a. measure, of public safety. She protested, and explained that she expected a. child to bo horn. ■■ ; After argument site was allowed to go to ;,n hotel, where eight meir v,’ho had beon told off to watch her, did not leave her for amomenl. . They., even watched her eat. *• The authorities declared that, she must undergo punishment on lb pari Island, but a few davs later the British press took up her case, and the Minister for the Interior ordered her immediate release. in consequence of further represen. tations from England a passport appeared with almost comical suddenness, she concluded.