ITALIAN AFFAIRS
SHOT AT MINISTER. (Recd. noon.) ROME, October 3. It is officially announced that a shot was fired at Gasperi, near St. Anoelo bridge, yesterday, as he was driving to the last meeting of the Italian Consultative Assembly. The car window was shattered but Gasperi was unhurt. SICILIAN SEPARATISTS ROME, October 3. According to the Rome radio, Andrea Prile, President of the Sicilian Separatist movement, was arrested at Palermo, with other members of the movement. POLES PREFER EXILE (Rec. 11.35 a.m.) ROME, Oct. 3. The majority of the Poles in Italy do not want to return to Poland, according to a statement by Lieut.General Anders, ‘Commander-in-Chief of the Polish Second Cqrps. He said a plebiscite, carried out in his corps, revealed that of a total of 1000,000 men, 14,000 wanted to return to Poland. The remaining 86,000 considered the conditions of life in Poland did not permit of their return. Commenting on Polish-Russian relations, Lieut.-General Anders said: “Poland, to-day, is governed by the Soviet Union. We Poles naturally are all most anxious to return to our native land, but we can only do so when Poland is free and independent.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 4 October 1945, Page 5
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