ITALIAN CRUISER
SERIES OF INCIDENTS MELBOURNE DISTURBANCES
WHARF GUARD DOUBLED 1 By Telegraph—PresH Association—Copyright] MELBOURNE, Feb. 17. A series of incidents relating to Fascism marked the visit of the Italian cruiser Raimondo Montecuccoli to Melbourne. In addition to an assault yesterday on board the cruiser on an Italian resident of Melbourne, Ottavio Orlando, Italian sailors, brandishing knives, are alleged to have caused a disturbance in the club used by the Italian community at Carlton, and two city men who visited the cruiser stated that they were ordered to the commander's cabin, where they were asked whether they had made derogatory remarks about Signor Mussolini. An officer on the cruiser said that the sailors had dealt with Orlando because they had taken him for the man who had distributed anti-Fas-cist leaflets. The police authorities, fearing a clash between the demonstrators and the crew of the cruiser, have doubled the guard on the wharf where the warship ]ies.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 80, Issue 41, 18 February 1938, Page 7
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