UNREST IN ITALY.

Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 19164, 22 November 1927, Page 11

UNREST IN ITALY.

PLOT AGAINST MUSSOLINI. ! HIGH PERSONAGES ARRESTED. I (bt cable—pp.sss association—coptmqht.) j (AVSTRALIAX and si. cablx association.) i j (Received November 21st, 9.20 p.m.) •) j LONDON, November 21. The correspondent of the "Daily Chronicle" in Paris reports that uncensored messages from the Italian r frontier disclose the existence of a n great plot against Signor Mussolini. SiS leading Italians, including Gen- '•- oral Bencivenga, have been arrested. :t The General was Deputy-Chief of the 1; General Staff during the war. ' With him was arrested a Deputy e named Ponzio, holder of the Golden Medal, and a famous war hero, suggest;i ing that the great associations of exr combatants, who were once Black r Shirts to a man, are growing ime patient with the Fascist regime. This ° belief is strengthened by the fact that * Signor Bergman, first President of the National Association of Ex-Combatants, '' has been arrested in Milan, and five or six arrests have been made in Northe em Italy, which is a Fascist strongr hold. , A.special tribunal has already eondemned 123 of Signor Mussolini's political enemies, apart from hundreds who have been banished to the unhealthy islands off Sicily.