BLATANT BENITO
STIRRING UP TROUBLE WITH WAR TALK STATE SEIGE AT MILAN Reed. 9.5 a.m. GENEVA, Friday. Based on railwaymen’s reports, the Socialist newspaper “Le Travail” asserts that a state of siege exists at Milan. Since Mussolini’s arrival there have been nearly 3,000 arrests of suspected persons, including a number of leading Opposition Fascists. All railway stations, post offices and public buildings are occupied by armed police, while troops are confined to barracks, with motor transport held in readiness. Detachments of the Fascist Militia have been drafted in from other provincial towns. A message from Rome says Signor Benito Mussolini addressed 25,000 exservicemen at Milan. He said:- —- “My recent speeches at Leghorn and Florence set all the geese in Europe cackling. Never was there such a spectacle of human hypocrisy. “Anyone would think that only Italy possesses warplanes, while other countries have inoffensive paper kites; that only Italy has guns and other countries content themselves with walking-sticks: that only Italy has a navy and others fishing smacks and yachts. “The truth is that if everybody is arming. Italy must arm, too.”
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Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 980, 24 May 1930, Page 9
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