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age in company with Emilio Lussu, Sardinian deputy, and Carlo Rosselli, a young lawyer.
and shivering with cold, we watch food sold by the gaolers at exorbit- ed the prison officials go through ant prices, took 15 hours All the our clothes. They did their work time the prisoners had to remain minutely, and the operation lasted chained together. On the evening not less than a quarter of an hour of their arrival the prisoners were for each one of us. all our mquey, watches, chains, the port, where, of course chained Naturally driven from the. Carmine Prison to rings, and cuff-links were taken, nas and handcuffed, they embarked on wel as peos, pencils, notebooks, the steamer. Argentina for Palermo, and paper. The latter were evi-The voyage lasted 11 hours, during dently deemed particularly danger- which the prisoners lay huddled in ous possessions, for the searchers the hold, still chained together. even ripped open the lining of our coats to make sure that we had not concealed lead pencils there."
until then had been ignorant of the After several days Witti, who charge against him, had to sign a receipt for a document sentencing him to five years' deportation to a convict colony for hang commit- It will be remembered that theted subversize acts against the Fascist authorities arrested Rar political and economic institutions selli's English wife, just after the of the State, and having at various times manifested the ipten- escape, and were only forced to tion of modifying these institutions release her after a great outery by violent means "That night Nitti had to share his coll with two and, as will be seen, pot an un- ordinary criminals, "an interesting usual commentary on the state of the prisons under Fascism...
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story of the only successful attempt so far made to escape from an Italian convict settlement for poli. tical prisoners. This book has been written while the events are atill fresh in the author's mind, and, since he is plainly a man of great sincerity and high moral sense, his account of his own sufferings must be accepted pimpeachable evidence.
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The Murder of Matteotti, Nitti tells us that he was first con- verted to strong, personal hatred
The Way to Exile.
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On arrival they were taken to the
Nitti
we indeed the prison hey had we entered when dozen warders rushed at us. They liber- ated us from our chains and hand- cuffs and ordered us to strip. Drenched with perspiration through the painful effort of carrying our suit-cases, we stood naked in the pouring raia while the warders searched our luggage and clothes, gone through which had been countless times already," and four other political prisoners were confined in a cell with fifty ordinary criminals, for two nights. From Palermo they were taken to Girgenti, a journey of 14 hours, in chains, where Nitti and 15 com- panions were confined for six days in a cell constructed to hold six at the outside. Eventually on Decem her 97 the prisoners were landed at Lampedusa,
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On the night of December 17-18 a hatch of sixty prisoners left the prison for the convict island of Lampedusa. "The gendarmes or-
Lampedusa is a dered us to line up and began to
small, barren handcuff us. We had to hold out island thirteen miles in circumfer ence, and almost without vegeta our hands with the wrists crossed. Then the heavy iron bandcuffs weretion or shade. On the island was placed in position and fastened settlement of some 300 ordinary criminals undergoing rentences of with a big screw. If the screws deportation, who had nothing to were turned too tightly, the pain do except fight and get drunk on was excruciating.
When we had all been handcuffed we were any extra money they could earn by unloading ships. They received chain was padlocked to the hand from the Government, while the murder of Matteotti, the Socialist cuffs of the first prisoner, passed deputy, and he conjectures that it through those of the second and political prisoners, who also had to feed themselves, received 10 lire was his action in laying a wreath third, and again locked to the (about two shillings in English ou the place where the body was fourth.
The weight of the found that caused the authorities handcuffs, padlocks, and chain was money). Prices, of course, were to shadow and finally to arrest so great that we could scarcely!wo or three times as high as on The life, though him. On the 2nd of December, stand upright." Thus weighed the mainland. 1923, Nitti was awakened by police. down, carrying their suit-cases, the monotonous, was easy. From roll- men, arrested, and taken to the pety "staggered down a windingve o'clock in the afternoon the call at eight in the morning until local police station, whence he was stone staircase and out into the prisoners were, free to roam about transferred to the prison of "Re-prison vans.
tire island. At Eve they were lock- gina Coeli. After registration he The journey by rail to Naples, ed up for the night in the long and a large batch of prisoners wert where the prisoners were lodged is stripped and searched.
"Naked i one common cell and provided, with single room in which they slept.
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