The Archive · 1925

The Mussolini Plot

Several Suspects Arrested

Rome, Nov. 6

Several persons have been arrested who axe suspected of complicity in the plot for the assassination of Signor Mussolini, who has received thousands of telegrams of congratulation from all parts of Italy and abroad.

The Fascist newspaper "Epoo" saya that the plot was more ambitious than originally supposed. Tt aimed not only at killing Signor Mussolini but was intended as. the starting point of revolution and proclamation of a republic.

Nov. 7.

In connexion with the plot against Signor Mussolini the police have made numerous raids in the Genoa district, Eight persons have been arrested and 30 detained for judicial examination.

Those arrested include Giovanni Ansaldo, chief editor of the Socialist newspaper "Il Lavoro," the offices of which have been occupied by the }police, Uliese Ducci, chief of the Free Italy Association, which was recently dissolved as subversive, and a brother of General Capella who was arrested the other day.

Nov. 8. semi-officially denied that Signor Ansaldo, chief editor of "I Lavoro," has been arrested, in connexion with the plot against Signor Mussolini.

The retired General Louis Capella, who wrested on November 5 at Turin, has left Turin for Rome under escort Widespread Search for Con-

Late The police of practically the whole of Italy are engaged in domiciliary searches and arrest, They are reported to be securing evidence of a great revolutionary plot.

All the persons arrested in Genoa yesterday have been released but the searches continue in Genoa and elsewhere, Numerous arrests were effected in Leghorn following searches of 50 dwellings

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