PLOTS AGAINST MUSSOLINI QUEENSLAND ELECTIONS

Taranaki Daily News, 17 June 1932, Page 7

PLOTS AGAINST MUSSOLINI

QUEENSLAND ELECTIONS

ANTI-FASCIST TO BE EXECUTED. THIRTY YEARS’ GAOL FOR WOMAN By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright. Rec. 7 pirn. Rome, June 16. The trial of nine anfi-Fascists in connection with alleged plots against Signor Mussolini concluded with the passing of the death sentence on Bovone, chief of the accused, who admitted making a bomb which caused the death of a police officer and injury to several persons. Bovone said he merely intended to cause alarm, not to harm. Bovone’s woman associate, Margherita Blaha, an Austrian dancing girl with long golden curls, who wept throughout the trial, was sentenced with five others of the accused to thirty years’ imprisonment. Two accused were sentenced to ten years’ imprisonment. Bovone will be shot through the back.

RESIGNATION OF PREMIER.

THE LABOUR LEADER CALLED.

By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright.

Rec. 10.30 p.m. Brisbane, June 16. The Premier, Mr. A. E. Moore, has tendered his resignation and the Governor has commissioned Mr. Forgan Smith, Labour Leader, to form a new Government.

The latest election figures indicate the state of the parties to be:— Labour 34 Nationalists 27 Independent 1