In Florence, Fascists killed and wounded a number of Freemasons; plundered and burned several houses belonging to members of the Masonic order.
Shortly after the event Fascist-censored cables and telegrams declared that a hot-headed Freemason, Giovanni Benciolini had wantonly shot and killed Cavaliere Luperini, a Fascist leader, and had then been set upon by an infuriated Fascist mob, which not only beat him to death but wreaked awful vengeance upon all Freemasons who could be found.
Curiously enough, when uncensored letters were received concerning these dark doings, it was represented that the Fascist...
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