FERRER CONSIDERED A PHILANTHROPIST.
THE POPE REGRETS EXECUTION
GREAT DEMONSTRATIONS OF PROTEST.
MADRID, October 14
Ferrer founded a modern school in Barcelona, which was noted for antimonarchical and anti-clerical spirit and the teaching of the Anarchist moral. Ferrer was generally regarded as a philanthropist and a dreamer, not as a conspirator.
The court-martial's judgment was unanimous, and a council of war of the Cabinet endorsed it unanimously. The Pope regrets the execution, and foars it will encourage anti-clericalism.
The Mayor of Rome has issued a blackledged manifesto, stating that Rome mourns Ferrer's death with the rest of tho civilised world.
All shops were closed in Milan in protest against the execution of Ferrer.
8000 workmen at Turin struck work
The Labour Leaders at Genoa ordered a 48 hours' cessation of work. Genoa is in darkness, the trams are stopped, vand the newspapers are not appearing. Theire were demonstrations before the Spanish Consulates in several Italian towns.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume L, Issue 12346, 16 October 1909, Page 7
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156FERRER CONSIDERED A PHILANTHROPIST. Wanganui Chronicle, Volume L, Issue 12346, 16 October 1909, Page 7
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