A GRUESOME MOCKERY.
DEAD IRREDENTIST TRIED FOR
TREASON
THE BODY GIBBETED
("The Times.")
Rome, July 19
Signor Battisti, deputy for Trent in the Austrian, Parliament, was seriously wounded while fighting as art Italian officer. He committe3 suicide rather than fall into Austrian hands.
The Austrians held a mock treason trial over his body and hanged it in furious indignation.* The demand for reprisals is general throughout Italy.
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Colonist, Volume LVII, Issue 14143, 21 July 1916, Page 5
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67A GRUESOME MOCKERY. Colonist, Volume LVII, Issue 14143, 21 July 1916, Page 5
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