NEW NAZI MOVE
TROOPS VIA FRANCE
DISPATCHED TO ITALY
PERMISSION NOT ASKED
(By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) LONDON, December 20.
After failing to reach an agreement with Marshal Petain for the transport of German troops to Italy from occupied France, Hitler has decided to move them without permission, says the "Daily Telegraph."
Trains have already begun to leave the Bordeaux area, where the troops concerned were recently concentrated in occupied territory abutting on Spain. They were held. in reserve either for a move to Spain or Portu[gal or for the present contingency, which Hitler considers sufficiently grave to justify the dispatch of troops to Italy.
The move is being made across France because the French railways are in better condition than the German. German troops in northern Italy would ensure the control of Italy's entire industrial area. . .
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Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 150, 21 December 1940, Page 12
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