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Colonist, Volume LIII, Issue 13167, 25 July 1911, Page 4

How to extirpate the Camorra, the Mafia ("Black Hand"), and brigandage forms of crime which are rampant in Southern Italy is a problem which the National Congress, assembled at Girgcnte, Sicily, has for the first time sot itself to treat. The Congress has bcon inaugurated by the Italian Minister of Justice in the presence of nearly 2,000 delegates, including the best-known jurists and erimologists nnd sociologists of contemporary Italy. Signor Luzzatli, ox-Premier of Italy, who was supported by GOO Senators and Deputies, said little practical imorovement could be reasonably hoped for till the initial task of civilising those semi-savage regions had been seriously grappled with by the introduction and extension of ways of communication, a good water supply, and the establishment of primary schools. Si»nor Luzzatti recommends the formation of special flying squadrons of carnbinipri to stamp out organised crime in Sicily and the "cattle raiding that is still universal in Sardinia.—"Daily Chronicle" correspondent.