ARMED WITH BOMBS

Hokitika Guardian, 7 June 1932, Page 5

ARMED WITH BOMBS

MAN CAUGHT

ATTEMPT ON MUSSOLINI'S LIFE.

(United Press Association—By Electrio

Telegraph.—Copyright.)

ROME, June 6,

Signor Mussolini’s would-be assassin is named Angelo Abardelletto. He admitted that he is an Anarchist, and teat he wanted to attempt Signor Mussolini’s' life while the latteir was attending the unveiling of a monument to Anita Garibaldi on the Janiculun: Hill ; but a cordon of troops prevented him.

Abardelletto had a thin rubber pad filled with nitro glycerine," strapped to liis chest. There was sufficient explosion to blow t» pieces himself’and anyoi:e grappling with him. In addition, two flat bombs hung to his belt. i

Abu.delletto will be tried by a special tribunal. It is expected that he hill be sentenced to death by shooting, si mil aily to Michael Schrrru, who was so sentenced for plotting Signor Mussolini’s death in 1931,

Several attempts • have been made on the life of-th'e, Duceiithe, firsthand tho most remai#fo.iie• hy the Hon. Violet Gibsoti, sister of* the jlrish peer, 'Lord Ashbourne, who on April 7, 1926, fired at the Dictator. Tb e moment of firing probaby caved his life, but he was hit on the nose, though only slightly., Miss Gibson' was': subsequeutly found to be mentally affected. Next day Mussolini declared: “I have chosen as my motto: ‘Live dangerously. If I advance?, follow me. If I retreat, kis! me. If I die, avenge me.’ ” On September 6 the same year another attempt was made on Mussolini’s life, a'bomb being thrown at his oar. It struck tfie vehicle, but no one was injured. Lucetti, th e man who threw the arrested, and it was found tHat he had come ' from France, whereupon the Dictator, said: '“We must make an end of ’this culpable and unheard-of to 1 erance beyond our frontiers. If any value is attached to the friendship of the Itrl’an people, that friendship-may’be fatally compromised! by actk jpf- this kind.” This utterance and a’. Press campaign that followed led to la/protest, being made by the' French Ambassador. A third attack in’ 1925 occurred at Bologna on October 31, when a youth fired at Mussolini, : missed, and was seized by the mob.. ancl immediately lynched. The bullet had pierced Mussolinis’ uniform, but- ha did not suffer even a scratch. . , /?'

■ln 1929 tile next attempt was made, when his da# was fired upon, but it contained his secretary only. This offi. cial was wounded, Tit 1939 an<«*er attempt was fruotrated, when An Fascist,’:'who had journeyed to Lome from London, was arrested after wounding three policemen and endeavouring to commit suicide. - 1