GERMAN BARBARITY
Italians Locked In Abbey Before Bombing (Received February 19. 1.45 a.m.) LONDON, February 18. The Monte Cassino abbey is a mass tomb of Italian men, women and children, the victims of one of the vvorst acts of barbarity yet seen on the Italian front, says Reuter’s correspondent. Survivors said that when the Allies threatened to bombard the abbey the German commander locked up the abbot, priests and civilians, and then trained machineguns on all the exits. Many Italians were killed during the. Allied bombing. The victims included civilians from-Cassino who sought sanctuary in the abbey. ___________
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Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 123, 19 February 1944, Page 8
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