PLOT THAT FAILED.

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXV, Issue 18620, 16 July 1930, Page 9

PLOT THAT FAILED.

ANTI-FASCIST IN AERIAL SMASH. United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright PARIS, July 14. A fantastic anti-Facist plot, in which- f an aeroplane flew from France across the Alps to drop pamphlets attacking Signor Mussolini, ended in disaster to Giovanni Buzzolesi, the pilot, who lost his way in a fog on returning from 1 the successful execution of the mission, and crashed on top of a pass just inside the Swiss * frontier. Monks picked him up gravely injured. The French, Swiss and Italian Governments are worried about the diplomatic possibilities as a result of the escapade. Buzzolesi persuaded the editor of the French aviation magazine to assist him to get an aeroplane, and load it with 100,000 pamphlets. The airman flew to Milan, and cruised over the centre of the city. The sky was white with anti-Fascist literature. The Italian police marshalled their forces and snatched the literature from excited crowds, while fast fighting machines were sent up to catch the bold raider, but the machine disappeared towards Switzerland, where it crashed. Buzzolesi fled from Italy in 1928.