ESCAPE FRUSTRATED
MUSSOLINI AND PARTY
Rec. 1 p.m. LONDON, April 27. Milan radio said that in addition to the capture of Mussolini, Farinacci, and Pavolini, Italian patriots also took prisoner Graziani, Commander-in-Chief of the Fascist armed forces.
The radio revealed that patriots and Customs guards surprised Mussolini and his party at lunch.
According to an official announcement by the Swiss radio, Mussolini's wife, son, and daughter tried to escape into Switzerland. "Several motor-cars on Wednesday morning arrived on the, Italian side of the frontier post at Chiasso. An Italian police commissioner, explained to the chief of the post that Mussolini, Signora Rachele Mussolini, and their son and daughter, besides the wife of a Fascist Minister and eight others in the cars, wanted to enter Switzerland. They were refused entry and the cars turned away in the direction of Italy."
Reuters Rome correspondent says that the public prosecutor demanded that Mussolini be tried for his life before the High Court. It is agreed that he is a war criminal, but Italians argue that first and foremost he is guilty of innumerable crimes ? gainst the Italian people.
Later it was reported that Buffarini Guido, Minister of the Interior in the new Republican Fascist Government which bMussolini established in? 1943, has also been captured.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXIX, Issue 99, 28 April 1945, Page 8
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