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al charges of grating which chung to
these criminals, but again he was
forced to push the arrest and prosecu-
ton of his former friends.
Even now Mussolini is attempting
to postpone and put the trial outside
Of Rome to escape the great feeling
for real justice which is so evident
in the city.
Denounees Communists to Distract
Mussolini continued in his senate
address with a bitter denunciation of
the opposition forces for their CAPT
talizing the Matteotti murder and the
evidences Of grating by Fascist Off
cials for general strike and revolu-
tionary calls. He let all the venom
he would like to have used against
all his opponents, break on the heads
of the Communists, most of whose
leaders he is still holding in Jail.
There is a slight possibility that
an amnesty will be granted the poll
ticaI prisoners, workingmen and ra-
ideals mostly, arrested during the
great excitement of the last two
weeks. Mussolini is supposed to be
considering the advisabiIity of such a
move as a political expedient to quell
the public agitation Of the present.
Amnesty Political Move.
The erstwhile dictator of Italy is
pretending to be highly conciliatory
just now. He spoke of granting the
parliament its sovereignty again, say
ing he would cause the institutions
Of parliament to function regularly
and nobly as an organ of legislative
power, restoring it to its capacity
and its prestige" which he, of course,
as Fascist dictator has denied for
the last few years.
The blackshirt leader, who is now
trying. to divest himself of the odious
shirt that sticks to him, also said that
he would ''regularize under the con-
stitution the situation of the national
militia" which means that he will
make the Fascist troops a part of
the regular army.
Then in true Mazzinian style, he Of
fered to "repress the superimposed
illegalisms in the organization of the
Fascist party" and concluded with a
call upon all the living forces of the
nation to work for reconstruction"
Liberal Calls for Fasclsm's End.
Senator Albertini, a well-known and
influential Liberal who visited Ameri-
ca not long ago, made stirring plea
in the senate for a real government
in Italy. "Give to Italy not Fascist
government, but an Italian govern
ment, one that really represents the
people," Sig Albertini is editor of
Corriere Della Sera, one of the most
powerful non-Fascist papers in the
country.
The alleged international adven-
turer, Otto Chirzl," whom reactionary
papers tried to brand as Russian"
has been identified as Ignatius Ire
bitsch-Llncoln, an international spy.
He was employed by Amerigo Dumb
nj to work for the rascist official
thugs, altho he has not so far been
actually implicated in the killing of
the Socialist deputy.
Once Preached, Now Spies.
This spy was an evangelical protest
ant minister in England, but the scan
dals in his life drove him out of the |
pan-handling game and into a career
of spying for Germany chiefly. Dur
ing the Kapp Putsch in Germany, in
1921, he was chief of the provisional |
government until it was defeated by
the general strike of the workers.
He now has been serving the Fas-
cist Cheka, under Dumini, and was
Matteotti, altho he took
no part in kidnapping or numbering
the Socialist deputy. He is held in
prison with the ten Fascist officials
who have been implicated in the
crime.
Cal and Ben, Careful Grafters.
Mussolini, like Coolidge, has man
aged to keep his own name out of the
scandal which threatened to upset
the government. Careful Cal in the
United States didn't let the least
swish of gasoline even touch him
publicly and removed whatever smell
Of the stuff was on him from private
dealings.
Mussolini's nearest friends and sup
porters, Fascist officials of the depart
nent of the interior, have been in
Volved in the biggest oil scandal the
world has yet opened its blaze eyes
1t. And yet Mussolini has been able
to keep his own name above the stain
Of Sinclair oil graft, altho circuml