The Anarchists have tried to strike a blow in Italy,
but have partially failed. Some one of their number, unable to enter the Chamber, calculated that the Members would emerge on Thursday just before 8 p.m. He placed, therefore, an infernal machine on the roadway under a hat, intending that it should explode as a crowd of Deputies passed. As it chanced, Signor Crispi had adjourned the Chamber an hour before, and the bomb therefore only tore up the roadway, scattered some paving-stones, and injured eight persons, one of them, it is hoped, the engineer of the plot. Two of the men injured have lost limbs, and one is dead. The excite- ment was great; but it is said that the police and soldiers present acted with the greatest promptitude, and the wounded were instantly conveyed to hospital. The incident proves that Anarchism exists in Italy, which we all knew before, and that Italian Anarchy includes some men careless of their lives, which we did not know.
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