Victoria Daily Times (British Columbia), front page, 31 October 1922: 'Fascisti Celebrate in Rome Winning of Control in Italy'
Newspaper front page, Tuesday 31 October 1922. The right-hand lead reads 'Fascisti Celebrate in Rome Winning of Control in Italy', with a deck on the procession, the cabinet oath and Fascisti raids on the homes of Nitti and others. A boxed 'Twelve Deaths' paragraph inside the story reports shooting with fatalities. Other lead stories concern British Columbia politics and the British election.
- Date
- October 31, 1922
- Period
- Interwar
- Made by
- Victoria Daily Times, Victoria, B.C. (wire copy datelined Rome, 31 Oct 1922)
- Region
- North America
- Country
- Canada
- Medium
- Newspaper pages
- Issuer type
- Media
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Warn or inform
- Event
- March on Rome 1922
- Techniques
- Card stacking
- Source
- Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- Source
- Wikimedia Commons (University of Victoria digitisation, Internet Archive), retrieved October 2, 2026
- Rights
- Public domain (Commons: PD-Canada; also published before 1931, so public domain in the United States)
Victoria Daily Times, 31 October 1922, University of Victoria Libraries via Internet Archive and Wikimedia Commons
Text on the object
FASCISTI CELEBRATE IN ROME WINNING OF CONTROL IN ITALY Big Procession In Capital City; New Cabinet Ministers Take Oath of Office; Groups of Fascisti Invade Homes of Nitti and Others. Rome, Oct. 31, 12.45 p.m.—Groups of Fascisti to-day invaded the homes of former Premier Nitti, Count Valni, Deputy Nicola Bolbacci, the Communist leader, and Aruro Labriola, the Socialist former Ministre. Socialist literature and other pamphlets were confiscated. Signor Nitti is absent in Southern Italy. Rome, Oct. 31.—Benito Mussolini, the Fascisti head of Italy's new Government, was in his office at 8 o'clock this morning to begin his active work as Premier. An hour later he and his colleagues in the Cabinet were received by King Victor Emmanuel and individually took the oath of office. [...] Twelve Deaths These demonstrations and others which had occurred through the day yesterday led to sporadic disorders in some quarters during which there was considerable shooting with a number of fatalities, a total of twelve deaths being reported.
(English original; no translation needed.)
Spelling, including the misprints 'Valni', 'Aruro' and 'Ministre', is as printed. The middle of the story is elided with [...] where marked.
