BRITISH WARNING
SYSTEMATIC BOMBING OF ROME
REPLY TO NAZIS
THREAT TO ATHENS AND CAIRO
LONDON, April 18
The following statement was issued from No. 10 Downing Street this afternoon:—
"In view of the German threat lo bomb Athens and Cairo, his Majesty's Government Avishes it to be under-
stood that if either of those two cities is molested, they will commence a systematic bombing of Rome. Once this is begun it will continue, as convenient, until the end of the war. The greatest care will be taken not to bomb Vatican City, and the strictest instructions to that effect have been issued."
The statement went on: "It has, however, come to the knowledge of his Majesty's Government that an Italian squadron is being held in readiness in Rome to drop captured British bombs on Vatican City should a British raid take place. It is therefore necessary to expose this characteristic trick beforehand."
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXI, Issue 92, 19 April 1941, Page 9
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152BRITISH WARNING Evening Post, Volume CXXXI, Issue 92, 19 April 1941, Page 9
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