CONTROL IN TRIPOLI

Evening Post, Volume CXXXV, Issue 22, 27 January 1943, Page 5

CONTROL IN TRIPOLI

BAN ON FASCIST

ACTIVITIES

LONDON, January 26. A British proclamation has been issued in Tripoli outlining plans for the administration of. the territory.. Mr. R G Casey, Minister of State, in the Middle East said the plan was prepared before the Eighth Army's advance. The proclamation calls •on I the population to be tranquil and obey orders. British military courts have been set up to deal with such war crimes as sabotage, and arrangements have been made for supplies of food and medical treatment ■ for civilians. Guards have been posted at special buildings in various parts of tne occupied territory. The military government of the Italian population m Tripolitania will be firm but just. Fascist leaders and prominent members of the party, whether officials or not, will be interned, and Fascist clubs and centres will be closed. The teaching of Fascist ideas in schools will be forbidden, and all Fascist funds in the banks will be permanently frozen. Existing Italian courts will try civilian crime, but under the control of the military government. Until the end of the war Tripolitania will be administered as an enemy occupied territory, until ite ultimate destiny is decided by the United Nations.