GERMAN RAPINE

Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 4, 30 September 1943, Page 5

GERMAN RAPINE

Horrible Crimes In North Italy REIGN OF TERROR (By Telegraph.—Press Assn. —Copyright.) LONDON, September 28. The German reign of terror over northern Italy has become as frightful as anything in their record of war crimes. They are raping, shooting, robbing and destroying in unrestrained fury against their former allies, says Reuter’s correspondent with the 1-iftn A Thousands of hunted refugees are coming over the mountains to Fifth Army outposts. They speak of the Germans rounding up civilian men and talcing them off to lhe north, nobody knows where, and dragging away AVomen. who are never seen again. AA hen their orders are not instantly obeyed they start shooting. Whole families have been wiped out, and stores of food have been stolen. The British United Press correspondent at Brindisi says refugees from Ronie sav that the Germans shelled the centre of’Rome before they entered the city and then looted it. They even held up civilians and took their watches and wallets. Algiers radio says that the Germans are evacuating factories and their workers from Naples, and that small contingents of workers have. already been transferred to Germany. Badoglio Government. Berlin radio says .that the Badoglio Government is functioning from Bari. The Duke of S-poleto (son ol the Duke of Aosta), who was appointed ‘King of Croatia but never assumed the crown, arrived at au American naval base in the Mediterranean. He was aboard his private yacht, which was escorted by au Italian destroyer. Reuter’s correspondent .at Taranto says that Italian naval officers arriving there report that the Italian crews scuttled the luxury liners Rex and Conte di Savoia, lhe. former at Trieste and the latter at Venice.