CRIMES AGAINST FASCISM

Taranaki Daily News, 24 December 1930, Page 7

CRIMES AGAINST FASCISM

LITERARY people gaoled MEN MARCHED INTO A CAVE ONE OF WOMEN’ ACQUITTED ‘MOTHER LOVE MISLED HER’ _ 9 By Telegraph—Press Assn.— Copy rightRec. 5.5 p.m. Rome, Dec. 22. Escorted by carabineers and members of the Fascist militia, five male prisoners charged in connection with the alleged existence of a secret organisation preparing crimes against the Government were marched into an iron cage to-day in readiness for trial -before a special tribunal consisting of four Fascist colonels. Two women were spared the ignominy .of the cage. Ono of these was Signora de Bosia, who was ill and was removed from the court by the Duce’s permission. Signora de Bosia is the elderly American-born widow of the Italian poet and translator of Shelley. A letter sent by her to the Duce from the nursing home was read in court. It thanked Signor Mussolini for his kindness and admitted that she had printed leaflets for the sake of her son Lauro, who is a refugee in Geneva. It was stated that she had not the slightest knowledge of politics. She begged Signor Mussolini to excuse her “incredible ingenuousness.” Declaring that her mother love had misled her* the Crown Prosecutor recommended her acquittal, the judges agreeing to the request. ~Mario Vanciguerra, translator of English books, and Renzo Rendi, correspondent of the New York Evening Post, were .each sentenced to fifteen years’ imprisonment, Umberto Golmetti, a schoolmaster, to three years imprisonment, and the others of the 24 arrested were acquitted owing to th&ir innocently having become involved in the' intrigue.