ROSELLI SAYS ITALY GOING FROM BAD TO WORSE

Stratford Evening Post, Issue 44, 5 December 1929, Page 5

ROSELLI SAYS ITALY GOING FROM BAD TO WORSE

PEOPLE OPPOSED TO FASCIST CAUSE TERRIBLE LAWS BEIMG ENFORCED PRISONS ARE FULL OF PEOPLE. Press Association —Copyright. (Received 5.55 a.m.) LONDON, December 4. The general situation in Italy is going from bad to worse, declaies Signor Rosselli, at present visiting London. Th e best proof that the Fascist regime has not got th£ country's support is that Mussolini cannot govern, without the terrible and exceptional laws passed in 1926, Rosselli asserts that prisons throughout Italy, especially in the (south are full of people, their only , crime being that they are not in ' sympathy with the Regime. They are subjected to the most , shocking tortures, the latest being to tie the prisoner to a chair and strike him heavily and repeatedly over the heart with a rj/Lber-cov-ered hammer, * Reprisals against the families of anti-Fascists have now become part j' of Italy's legal system. Thousands j of Italian homes are being ransackI ed and furniture destroyed in front t of helpless women.