Plot on Mussolini

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1024, 15 July 1930, Page 9

Plot on Mussolini

FLIER CHASED BY FIGHTERS Floods Air With Leaflets CRASHES IN FOG OVER SWISS ALPS AN elaborate plot against Mussolini by the distribution from the air of anti-Fascist leaflets was carried out by a bold airman who, as he flew over Milan, tv as chased by Italian fighting planes. The flier disappeared among the hills, but later crashed in a fog over the Swiss Alps and was gravely injured.

United P.A..—By Telegraph Copyright Reed. 11.55 a.m. PARIS. Monday.

matic possibilities as a result of the escapade. Buzzolesi persuaded the editor of a French aviation magazine to assist him to get the airplane and load it with 100,000 pamphlets. The airman then flew to Milan ami cruised over the centre of the city. The sky was white with anti-Fascist literature.

A fantastic anti-Fascist plot, in which an airplane flew from France across the Alps to drop pamphlets attacking Signor Benito Mussolini, ended in disaster to Giovanni Buzzolesi, the pilot, who lost his way in a fog on returning from the successful execution of his mission and crashed on top of a pass just inside the Swiss frontier.

The Italian police marshalled their forces and snatched the literature from the excited crowds, while fast fighting machines were sent up to catch the bold raider.

Monks picked him up gravely in jured.

The French, Swiss and Italian Governments are worried about the diplo-

But the machine disappeared toward Switzerland, where it crashed. Buzzolesi fled from Italy in 1928.