RELIEF FOR NAPLES
ALLIES SUPPLY FOOD
Rec. 12.30 p.m. RUGBY, October 6. Several hundred thousand loaves baked from flour brought in* by the Allies provided the inhabitants of Naples yesterday with the first bread they had eaten for over two months. Food has arrived by ship and road convoy, says a correspondent, and is being distributed through the civil rationing channels. The correspondent reveals that two days before the announcement of Italy's surrender and the Allied invasion, the Germans stationed in Naples left in a violent hurry. Italian naval officers told him that the Germans did not return until September 11, the day after the Allied landing in Salerno bay. On the night that the Fifth Army landed Naples was actually wide open. . From the time the Germans returned until the Fifth Army relieved the city three weeks later the Neapolitans lived under a reign of terror. At least 70,000 young 'Italians were forbidden to doff their uniforms, under pain of death, and within a week all were taken away under guard. They have not been heard of since. It is believed that they have been taken north to build defences.—B.O.W.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXVI, Issue 85, 7 October 1943, Page 5
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