A PLOT IN ITALY

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 73, Issue 419, 10 November 1930, Page 8

A PLOT IN ITALY

TWENTY ARRESTS MADE PROFESSORS AND DOCTORS ONE A FORMER MINISTER ATTACK ON FASCIST REGIME 4Jy Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright] Received Nov. 9, 9.20 p.m. (Times Cable). ROME, Nov. 8. A Government communique announces the arrest of 20 persons “in various localities of Northern Italy,’’ who will be charged before a -special tribunal with preparing criminal acts against the Fascist regime. The communique gives no details and is reproduced in the newspapers with out comment. The plotters are said to have been working in conjunction with the anti-Faseist element. Another message states that nearly all those arrested are professors, lawyers and doctors, with republican views. They include Signor Belotti. Minister of Industry in the Bonomic Cabinet of 1921-22. Signor Belotti recently wrote to Signor Bonomi, stating that he wished to°start a literary and historical review expressing independent ideas. The letter was opened and Signor Belotti was arrested. Others among the accused are Signor Renzi. Professor of Philosophy at Genoa University, Signor Rossi, Professor of Economics at the technical institute at Bergano. As the train conveying those arrested was starting for Rome, Signor Ros’d jumped out and evaded pursuit for 12 hours. He was recaptured in the woods by Fascist militiamen. The arrests are believed to have arisen from the clandestine circulation in Italv of the newspaper “ Jus tice and Liberty,” published in Pans in Italian.