MUSSOLINI’S REGIME OF TORTURE ATTACKED.
FIENDISH CRUELTY TO PRISONERS ALLEGED. (United Press Assn.—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) (Received December 5. 11.30 a.m.) LONDON, December 4. “The general situation in Italy is going from bad .to worse,” declares Signor Rosselli, an anti-Fascrst, who is at present visiting London. “The best proof that the Fascist regime has not got the country’s support is that Signor Mussolini cannot govern without the terrible and exceptional laws passed in 1926.” Signor Rosselli asserts that the prisons throughout Italy, especially in the south, are full of people, whose only crime is that they are not in sympathy with the regime. They are subjected to the most shocking tortures, the latest being to tie the prisoner in a chair and to strike him heavily repeatedly over the heart with a rubbercovered hammer. Reprisals against the families of anti-Fascists have now become part of Italy’s legal system. Thousands of Italian homes are ransacked and the furniture destroyed in fr6nt of helpless women.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 18936, 5 December 1929, Page 1
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