THE ITALIAN MURDER

Southland Times, Issue 19276, 21 June 1924, Page 5

THE ITALIAN MURDER

MORE ARRESTS MADE DAY OF FASCISMO DECLARED OVER MUSSOLINI SACRIFICES HIS FRIENDS. (By Telegraph—Press Assn. —Copyright.) (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.) LONDON, June 20. (Received June 21, 1 a.m.) It is stated in Italian circles in London that Deputy Matteotti’s body was so mutilated that the authorities interred it secretly, fearing the results if the facts were known publicly. The Italian Socialist leader, Caporali, stated at a Socialist meeting in Paris that the body was pierced with 19 bullets, five knife thrusts, and was literally crushed with bludgeons. The Rome correspondent of the Daily Express says that Marinelli’s arrest was the sequel to the arrest of a notorious character whom the police call Otto Chirszel. Although he has five aliases and as many nationalities, it is alleged that Marinelli sent money to Chirszel, who came from Naples to join the Dumines murder gang and took part in the kidnapping. The Daily Herald says that Chirszel declares that the aim of the kidnappers was to gain possession of certain documents. Mattiotti was being kept a prisoner in a villa until the Parliamentary Session, and owed his death to strenuous resistance. The Herald comments that Signor Mussolini is cynically overthrowing his closest friends. He may save himself, but the day of Fascism is over. EDITOR EXAMINED. MUSSOLINI’S LIEUTENANT ARRESTED ROME, June 19. Filipelli, editor of the Corriere d’ltaliano, is undergoing many hours of stringent interrogation, but no light has so far been thrown on Matteotti’s fate, except the allegedly damning evidence against Dumini, in • whose luggage, it was stated, bloodstained articles were discovered. The police have arrested Giovamji Marinelli, an ex-member of the Fascist Directory. The arrest amazed and shocked the public, as Marinelli has been the administrative secretary of the party since its foundation, enjoying an authority second only to that of Mussolini. He recently lost Mussolini’s confidence.