FASCISM.

Hokitika Guardian, 1 October 1925, Page 3

FASCISM.

ITALY'S “RED" TERRt )R. A SENSA'I IoN'AL EX I < >SI'U.K. [ Australia A N.Z. Cable Association.] (Received this day at O HO a.m.) LONDON. .Sept. HO Mr Hugh Redwood, in his third .< lido, says: • A vistor to Italy sec, little v.l ha-n i-t ferrnrisin. hut much ol f ascist etiii-ien-c> . Trains uni t ravel are quick ,<r : property is safer, trade is expanding, fint. the terror is there, fear i, omnipresent. Noii-Ftiseists are often tfr-itd ol their lives and are continually e u the alert owing to relented raids - ml looting. Mam- Mayors. Deputies, and I.abo'ir Leaders have boon driven away to leal back at night time to visit their iamilies.

' Eas ism has gagged the press, mi.to elect ions a farce. Inreed the workers and peasants into its trade unions byviolence and economic pressure. fascism has burned t!m labour < changes to prevent nnn-Ensoists trim so- tiring work, and have dismissed m nEaseist magistrates. and is now seeking to dismiss iioo-Fascist civil servants.

(Fascism has created a dictatorship in the municipal i t ies and lias also appointed provincial chieftains, who : re often criminals, with authority over t la- police and lnugi't ra, y.

Matti-otti's murder was followed by a series oi - 1 -titrages against the Fasoi-ts’ most distinguished opponents. The fascists, in-ting under orders. I wire assaulted Cumit Sforza. cx-f’or-eigu Minister. They tired revolver shots at Ids wife and imtuisoued Ids brother hceau-c b - bad a Mass -aid in memerv of Ma 11 cut ti.

The fascists also assaulted Sign aOrlando. ox-Premior. anil wrecked a d loote.-l the house of Signor AI ill i, an ex-Prcmier. They twice all aek.-d 'Signor Amendohi. ex-Alinistei- of the

“I have seen.'’ Continues Mr IbdWnoil. “the letter Mussolini wrote a id signed, ordering a Provincial Pivl ’el to make a well-known litterateur's hie impossihle. I'eroni. a fascist militiaman. gave evidence that h<- had attacked Amendobt on the orders *>l \ r .;*- solini and fteneral Deliono. Director-Genei-al of Police. After Ibis. an rI - tempt was made to poison I‘orioi. There were ai-n attempts to mio-J r Deputies l-'orue and Mi'itre. who -eeeded from Fascism