The Archive · 1929

Communist Sentenced

Brussels, Oct. 20, Thirty Belgian, Italian ang Hun arian Communists were brought up in court to-day in connection with the anti-Fascist demonstration on the evening of Ocober 18 outside the Italian Legation here," when Young anti-Fascists, mostly Italians, shouted insulting epithets against Signor Mussolini and bombarded the Legation with bricks. They smashed the doors and windows but were finally dispersed by the police, who fired over the heads of the crowd.

All the accused were discharged, except the Belgian, Debocck, seeretary of the Young Communists League, who has been sentenced to 8 term of imprisonment.

The demonstration was apparen'- ly due to a young Serbian student having been sentenced to death by fan Italian tribunal at Polo and executed for firing on voters during the last General Election there, Four others, aged only seventeen, were sentenced each to 30 years! imprisonment and as a result the [Jugo-Slav students are preparing World-wide agitation against the sentences.—Reuter.

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