AMGOT AT WORK

Dominion, Volume 36, Issue 305, 20 September 1943, Page 5

AMGOT AT WORK

New Life For Italians In Salerno

(British Official Wireless.) (Received September 19, 7.5 p.m.) RUGBY, September 18. in the very front line of the battle at Salerno are the headquarters of Amgot, in charge of an American colonel who took up his quarters in the Town Hall the day after the landing and has been directing affairs ever since, though mortar bombs are falling and enemy patrols penetrate the streets at night. There- had been a general clear-out of Fascists before we arrived, says a correspondent, but the mayor was one who consistently remained outside the organization. He is now installed in the Town Flail in charge of the civil administration of. the town under Amgot’s supervision. We enforce a curfew for Italians and have arranged rates, of exchange and a ration scale. Controlling the police is a former deputy chief constable of Los Angeles. Particulars of civil government were made known by a proclamation exhibited in the town and signed by Lord Rennell. British military police are working with the carabinieri. To help the Italians understand the new life and ways of the iuvading forces, an Italian language newspaper is published called “Corriere di Salerno.” It makes plain that the Allies come as liberators.

The first issue of the Salerno “Times,” a daily paper for the British half of the Fifth Army, appeared yesterday, says the Exchange Telegraph’s Salerno correspondent.