ITALIAN MASSACRE

Evening Post, Volume CXXXIX, Issue 103, 3 May 1945, Page 7

ITALIAN MASSACRE

OVER 3000 NEO-FASCISTS

Rec. 12.40 p.m,

LONDON, May 2,

A journalist who has returned from liberated Italian temtories estimates that more than 3000 Italian Neo-Fas-cists were massacred between Milan and the Swiss border, says the Exchange Telegraph agency's Zurich correspondent. The massacres were carried out despite the command by the committee of liberation to patriots to hand over prisoners to the legal courts.

The small villages of Tremezzo, where Mussolini was arrested, and Dongo, where he was executed, were bombed yesterday in revenge by a single German plane. Fifteen villagers were killed and, others wounded. The Germans in Venice destroyed a large part of the port installations before surrendering, says the Milan radio. The town itself is intact. The correspondent of the Associated Press of Great Britain with the sth Army states that part of treasures valued at £2,500,000 which were stolen by the Germans from museums in Florence and Rome and elsewhere were recovered in a village-near Vicenza. It is announced that Dr. Rudolf Rahn, German Ambassador to the Italian Fascist Government, has surrendered to the Allies. The Rome correspondent of the Associated Press of Great Britain reports that General Jabn, commander of the Lombardy Corps of the Ligurian Army, surrendered with 2000 Germans and Italians. The commander of the 75th Corps refused to capitulate. A convoy of 30 enemy vessels yesterday ran up white flags when two R.A.F. Hurricanes flew over it off the Istrian Peninsula, reports a correspondent in Rome. Ths convoy, which included landing crait, proceeded to Gradow under an Allied fighter escort.