ITALY AGAIN ANNOYED

Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 389, 22 March 1937, Page 5

ITALY AGAIN ANNOYED

IL DUCE COMPARED WITH MAD ASSYRIAN EMPEROR Dean of Winchester Criticised Press Association—Copyright. (Received 12.0 a.m.) Rome, March 21. The Italian Press is indignant over the Dean of Winchester comparing Signor Mussolini, in conlnejotiion iwithi Itlie Abysslnitin campaign, with the As yrian Emperor the madman.

The newspapers declare that it is iniquitous and bloodthirsty. “T(he Archbishop of Cantie'; bury,” one paper state :, “recent ly put a sacrilegious finger into Italy’s wound's in a way in whi h no gentleman’s agreement can obliterate. Now tlhe Dean of Winchester has idiotically trespa :ad. As the Anglican Church is a State church, we ask whether these attacks are not made te please the British Government?” From 171-168 8.8. Antiochus waged war with success against Egypt. He is notorious for his oppression of the Jews and their religion. In 170, and again in 168, he took Jerusalem and endeavoured to suppress the worship of Jehovah, probably introducing instead the worship of himself. But the Jews revolted, under Mattathias and his sons the Maccabees, and defeated Lysias, the general of Antiochus. He soon afterwards died in madness, which both Jews and Greeks attributed to his sacrilege, and he was nicknamed Epimanes, "maniac,” Instead of Epiphanes.