ZEALOUS FASCISTS ON CRUISER
DISTURBANCES AT WHARF AT MELBOURNE
SYDNEY, February 17.
A series of incidents involving Fascism marked the visit of the Italian cruiser Raimondo Montecuccoli to Melbourne. In addition to an assault yesterday on board the cruiser on an Italian resident of Melbourne, Signor Ottavia Orlando, Italian sailors, brandishing knives, are alleged to have caused a disturbance in the club used by the Italian community at Carlton. Two city men who visited the cruiser stated that they were ordered to the commander’s cabin where they were asked whether they had made derogatory remarks about Signor Mussolini.
An officer of the cruiser said that the sailors had dealt with Signor Orlando because they had .taken him for a man who had distributed antifascist leaflets,
The police authorities, fearing a clash between demonstrators and the crew of the cruiser, have doubled the guard on the wharf where the warship lies.
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Southland Times, Issue 23438, 19 February 1938, Page 18
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