CAMORRA IN MILAN.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 798, 22 April 1910, Page 7

CAMORRA IN MILAN.

HUNDREDS OF ARRESTS. By Ttlernph-Presi A»eocl»tlon-Gopyrl«h». (Reo. April 21,10 p.m.) Rome, April 21. Owing to an extraordinary increase in hooliganism in Milan (Northern Italy), the police have organised armed patrol bands who are arresting hundreds nightly. Milan is at present infested with many ex-convicts, armed with revolvers and daggers. The majority of them are southerner who have taken refuge in Milan in consequence of a military campaign having been instituted against the CamorTa in the Neapolitan provinces.

CAMORRA AND MAFIA. The blackmailing secret societies of Italy, whose trans-Atlantic branches are generally known in the United States under the namo of "The Black Hand," ordinarily have their home in Southern Italy and Sicily. The Mafia is identified with Sicily, the Camorra with Naples. For many years the Camorra terrorised the Kingdom of Naples. An attempt wasmade by Francis II of Naples to suppress the society, and many of its members were deported, . the remainder joined the Garibaldiane arid were largely instrumental in the expulsion of the' Bourbons in 1867. According to one authority, the Mafia is opposed to the Camorra. It is described _ae "a secret terrorist murderous society in Sicily, comprising all classes."