Foreign News: Bullets in the Back

To a group of anti-Fastisti who plotted his death in Paris cafe corners. Premier Benito Mussolini is known as "The Big Dog." In Rome last week two Italians who had tried unsuccessfully to blow "The Big Dog" into small bits met the special death that Italy reserves for spies and traitors—shooting in the back. Last summer 13 bombs exploded in Genoa, Bologna and Turin, killing three idlers and a policeman. One Genoese bombing almost coincided with the arrival of King Vittorio Emanuele. In September another bomb went off in a Genoese apartment, killing...

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