Serrati Free

Signor Menotti Serrati, Socialist member of the Chamber of Deputies and director of the Socialist newspaper Avanti, was acquitted from the charge of conspiring against the State and liberated from prison.

Fresh back from Communist Russia last March, Signor Serrati discovered that his staff had disavowed his radical polities. He replaced them with Communists and in so doing made it known to the Government that he had returned from Russia. He and his fellow Communists were then arrested; Serrati for hav-ing issued a manifesto to the Italian proletariat, urging a union between Socialists and Communists for a revolt against the Government.