ESENTMENT among Italian Fascist circles here over recent press editorials which they characterized as derogatory to the King of Italy flared into open violence yesterday afternoon when four Italians, including a Fascist leader, lured Mr. George Leonoff, City Editor of the "China Press" to a vacant plot of land near the Italian Centre where they assaulted him after accusing him of writing the articles.
That the assailants were bent on taking the law into their own hands was evidenced by the fact that they refused to accept the explanation of their victim that he was not responsible for the appearance of the articles and did not write them.
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