FASCISM.

Hokitika Guardian, 12 October 1925, Page 3

FASCISM.

[Australia * S.’A. Cable Association.]

!■’A SCI STS A XI) FREEMASONS

lIOMK, I'ct. 9. The “Daily Express’’ correspondent in Florence a remarkable account „| reprisals taken against Freemasons following on the shooting of Signor Luporini on October 4th. Ibe coiiespomlcnt says the strictest censorship lias with-held from the world the lac-t that eighteen persons have been ieported killed, and forty injured, while many shops and homes have been burned. STRENGTH OF FASCISTS. I{OMK. Oct. 9. The Fascist Grand Council General Secretary reported that the Fascist enrolments are now over eight hundred thousand, an increase of one hundred and fifty thousand over 1921. The Council noted this with satisfaction, and invited the Fascist centres to suspend further enrolments. CONSE R V AT IVE CON F F. IF KNCK. LONDON. Oct. 10. The Conservative Conference opened to-day in an atmosphere of satisfaction at Air Baldwin's speech, as a result of which one delegate said that the working man would be more than ever with Mr Baldwin. A resolution was carried demanding an ameudu ent of the Trade Inion Act of 1013. an 1 declaring that peace was not obtainable while tbo workers bad not, yet political freedom. The conference concluded alter a resolution was passed urging the advisability of a definite Conservative movement within the Trades Unions. ITALY'S BANGER. LONDON. Oct. 9. Mr Redwood in an article, says: Despite many workmen's prophesies, the Fascist Government is so readily armed that any ehntieo of revolution is ‘most improbable. Italy’s greatest and most imminent danger is a campaign of assassinations. The Fascists’ ruthless warfare against their opponents, including Labor. Free Masonry and tbo Civil Service, lias created desperate, reckless men. of which Signor Luporini’s murder is a disturbing sign. "Whatever side is responsible the assiliations will entail terrible reprisals, throwing the whole community into chaos, which will be the "Bolsheviks only chance, as Ttalv at present scarcely understands Communism as it is generally known elsewhere. l.alMuir and Socialism were responsible for defeating Bolsliov'isjin. Signor Mussolini converted Fascism into an anti-Bolslievik crusade, directed bv himself. The noble task of purging the country of danger has already disappeared. As a matter of tV-t. the onlv real Bolshevik peril with which Italy faced came from Mussolini himself.