BOMB ATTACKS ON ITALIAN LEAGUE DELEGATES PLANNED.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 18961, 7 January 1930, Page 1

BOMB ATTACKS ON ITALIAN LEAGUE DELEGATES PLANNED.

Many Arrests Made In Geneva When Anarchists Homes Are Raided

(United Press Association.—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.* (Received January 7, 9.25 a.m.) LONDON, January 6. There are amazing revelations concerning the recently discovered anti-Fascist plots against Italian and Belgian Royalties and Cabinet members, says the “Daily Mail,” whose Geneva correspondent declares that it is reliably established in League circles that the anti-Fascists were plotting against Mussolini's regime and particularly against the Italian delegation at the League’s coming meeting. It is alleged that they offered a notorious Chicago gunman £4OO “ to do the job.” The police yesterday raided the homes of anarchists and anti-Fascists in Geneva. Many Italians were taken to the police station and questioned throughout the night. Correspondence seized showed that the plotters had asked an Italian anarchist in New York to lend them a deadly kind of machine gun or pistol. The Italian police learned of the plot from a code letter addressed to a man in Italy, stating that the outrage would be carried out at the League Secretariat. The police photographed the letter, after which it was allowed to reach the addressee, who was left at liberty until he gave a clue to the place where bombs were being manufactured. The police are searching for persons believed to be preparing bombs for the attack on the League delegates. Several anti-Fascist extremists residing in Geneva recently disappeared, saying that they were going to Paris. Others known to have been in communication with those arrested on January 2 are now under strict surveillance. inmiiiumiiiiHiimimmiiniiuimtinimimimiiimiiiiiiimuimiiiiiiiiiiiiimiiiiiiniiniinimiiimmiimumimiiiiimiuiimHiiimmiimiiiiuniiinmiiiimniiiniuin