TERRORIST EXECUTED

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 797, 18 October 1929, Page 9

TERRORIST EXECUTED

SHOOTING PROVOKES NO DISTURBANCES ITALY AND YUGOSLAVS Australian anti N.Z. Press Association Reed. 1.14 p.m. ROME, Thursday. The death sentence on Vladimir Gortan, for alleged terrorism, was carried out at Pola at six o’clock this morning, he being shot in the back by an execution squad drawn from the Sixtieth Legjbn of the Blackshirt Militia. A Pola message says the news of the execution produced an excellent impression of a just punishment for a ferocious act of terrorism. The state of mind of the population was clearly revealed by a spontaneous and unanimous request that the Sixtieth Legion, which consists largely of Fascists, should he included in the firing-squad. Feeliug against Italy is running i high in Yugoslavia, said a Belgrade I message of Wednesday. It has been ! aroused by the passing of the death ! sentence at Pola 'upon Vladimir j Gortan, who is alleged to have amI bushed and fired upon voters during ! an election in the Piscino district of J Istria and to have killed one and j wounded several. Like his companions, who were sentenced to long terms of imprisonment, Gortan, although he is a Yugoslavian, is an Italian subject under the peace treaties. The court at Pola ordered Gortan to be shot through the back as a traitor. The public prosecutor said no distinction could be drawn between native Italians and those who had joined the Italian family since the Great War. The police have broken up several demonstrations in Belgrade. A crowd threatened the Italian Consulate at Zagreb, and now it is strongly guarded. Many arrests have been

made. Alt ADS ON STRIKE. —The one-day strike of Arabs throughout Palestine as a protest against the new rules which permit Jewish observances at the Wailing Wall, was carried out on Wednesday without incident. Most of the Jewish shops were open in Jerusalem. Troops were on duty from | early in the morning. The city all i dav was almost dead. —A. and N.Z_i P.A. i SENTENCE OF PEAT IL—Frank | Nolan was convicted at Sydney of ; having murdered Henry Skinner on , August 8. near Wagga, and was sentenced to death. Evidence for the ! prosecution was to the effect that ; Nolan’s finger-prints were identical with those of a man who under anj other name was said to have served I seven years’ imprisonment in Welling* | to n ior manslaughter.