GERMAN AID TO ITALY.
REPORTED TROOP MOVEMENTS.
SIXTY DIVISIONS IN AUSTRIA (United Press Association—-Copyright) LONDON, December 18. According to a message from New York, tlie Budapest conrespondeint of the Overseas Nows Agency repbrts that 60 German divisions totalling 1,000,000 troops, are massed on the Austrian border facing Yugoslavia and Italy. The Belgrade correspondent of the “New York Times” says that German troops, estimated to number 1000, were concentrated at Bari and Naples yesterday morning. With them were huge stocks of materials. Belgrade military circles expressed the opinion that they were embarking for Albania and Africa, and that- they were also bolstering Italian home front “morale.”
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 61, Issue 59, 19 December 1940, Page 5
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