THE BARBAROUS BOCHE
FIVE-DAY NAPLES ORGY PREPARING NOW TO WRECK ROME (llec. 12.10 p.m.) LONDON, Oct. 7. The police and the Red Cross at Naples estimate that about 800 were killed and thousands wounded during the five days of the German terror in the city. Among the Germans' last barbaric acts before leaving Naples was to seize 200 Italians at random from different houses, make them kneel in the square, and shout " Heil, Hitler," says Reuter's correspondent at Naples. The Germans then selected two Italian sailors and four soldiers, lined them up against a wall at the Naples Stock Exchange, and shot them. The correspondent adds that over half a million citizens were wandering through the city like lost souls looking for water. Men, women, and children carrying largo jars arid bottles, oven bath tubs, form long queues in thou-
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Evening Star, Issue 24990, 8 October 1943, Page 3
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140THE BARBAROUS BOCHE Evening Star, Issue 24990, 8 October 1943, Page 3
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