Evening star., 1926-11-05
Cabinet Approves Plans to
Crush Acts or Propaganda
Hostile to Fascism.
FIVE TO 80 YEAR TERMS
FOR "INJURING" ITALY
Unfriendly Newspapers Suppressed
as Well as Organizations
Against Present Regime.
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
ROME, November s. Sweeping
measures to protect the Fascist
regime from the activities Of it's enc
mics were approved today by the
cabinet, sitting under the presidency
of Premier Mussolini.
The ministers adopted a provision
making plots against the life, liberty
and integrity OF the premier and
members Of the royal family and plots
against the government and state
punishable by death.
They also approved penaliZing by
Imprisonment, varying from five to
more than 80 years, any effort by an
Italian or foreigner to injure Italy in
fact or by propaganda.
Membership in any organization
against Fascism also will be punish
able by heavy imprisonment. Nearly
a dozen specific acts relating to direct
or indirect activities against the
regime will render the offenders liable
to Jail terms and perpetual interdic-
ton from public office.
Italians Cannot Leave.
All passports allowing Italians to
leave the country are annulled, with
heavy penalties for attempted evasion.
Other provisions are:
Revocation for an lndeterminate
period of the licenses Of all news
papers antagonistic to the regime.
Dissolution Of all clubs and associa-
tions suspected Of being anti-Fascist.
Institution Of police dead lines for
persons suspected of anti-Fascism.
Inauguration Of service of special
political investigation at the head
quarters Of every legion of the Fas-
ciSt militia.
Judgment of the aforementioned
crimes is intrusted to special courts
consisting of representatives of the
army, navy, aeronautical corps and
the Fascist militia. The number OF the
courts and the control of them Will be
in the hands of the minister OF war.
The law goes into effect Immediately
and lasts for five years.
OfficiaIdom Is Guarded.
The cabinet also approved extension
of the law on bureaucracy for another
four wears, thus keeping ofticialdom
absolutely free Off antt-FasclSt eie-
ments. The law will also be amended
toward this end.
Among the new crimes ana penal
ties are the following: Consplrators
against Fascism, 5 to Is years: insti-
gators VI plOlS, IL W cV SSe"A ~A-~~-
CATION or support Of anti-Fascist ac-
tiyities through the press, to 10
wears: formation Of Illegal societies,
3 to 10 years, and membership in
them. . to years, with perpetual
interdiction from public office. Any
sort of anti Fascist propaganda Will
he considered equivalent to such
membership.
PropagandiIng or spreading false
rumors tending to hurt the state
abroad, S to IS years, with loss OF
citizenship and the confiscation of
property.
stranger considered guilty of these
offenses may be punished by this
law, judged in Italy, whether or not
he has already been brought to trial
and punished abroad
The section of the law regarding
passports provides for revision OF all
passports, with annulment, effective
November 9. Of all passports already
issued. persons now abroad excepted
The retroactive death penalty.
which was demanded by the Fascist
party for those responsible for pre-
vfous attempts on Mussolini's life, was
not adopted, it is understood, because
of the insistence of Minister of Justice
Rocco that such action would be at
variance with all the nations legal
traditions.