ITALY TO-DAY.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVII, 26 November 1927, Page 5

ITALY TO-DAY.

AN INTOLERABLE PRISON. EX-PRIME MINISTER VIOLENTLY ATTACKS MUSSOLINI. (By Cable — Press Assn. — Copyright.! (Received 26. 8.55 a.m.) London, November 25. “Italy is a prison where life is intolerable,” declared Signor Nitti, ex-Prnne Minister of Italy., and chief speaker at the “No More War” movement conference in Westminster Hall, where he made a remarkable attack on Fascism. He said: ‘ ‘ltaly has abolished every safeguard of individual and every liberty. Despite false statistics, the financial disorder is becoming worse daily, and production is diminishing. The White dictatorship is equally as bloody and brutal as the Red dictatorship, and unjustified by any ideal, even though a false one.” “Italy,” he said, “is indulging in violence against her adversaries. Houses are pillaged, sacked, and devastated, and thousands deported without trial. All independent newspapers have been suppressed, and Parliament has been suppressed--in fact, no profession can be carried on without the Government’s consent, and no freeman can live in Italy. Signor Mussolini has never disguised bis will to war, and all Fascists speak only of war. When the Dictator feels himself lost, he makes war Italy's dictator. He foresees war. in which Italv must participate from 1935 to 1910.”—(A. and N.Z.)