MINE ATROCITY
NAPLES POST OFFICE
LONDON, October 8. A correspondent representing the combined British Press describes the
mining of the Naples post office as one of the greatest atrocities of the war. Delayed-action mines containing several hundred tons of high-explosive were planted in the basement. Scores of Italian civilians, including many women and children, were blown to pieces as the whole pavement in front of the post office, was flung into the air. Almost everybody on the ground floor of the post office was killed, in addition to many people who were walking a block away, and persons in adjoining buildings were also killed. The explosion occurred at the busiest time of the day when hundreds of Neapolitans were visiting the post office
endeavouring" to communicate with relatives and friends in districts occupied by the Allies. The post office' was the only building in Naples which the Germans had left intact. They converted it into an immense booby trap. The Neapolitans' reaction is one of fierce resentment against the Germans, They have worked themselves up into a state of hysteria and call for vengeance against their former allies.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXVI, Issue 87, 9 October 1943, Page 7
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188MINE ATROCITY Evening Post, Volume CXXXVI, Issue 87, 9 October 1943, Page 7
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