UNREST IN ITALY
CIVIL WAR PLANS ANTI-FASCIST FACTIONS FIGHTS WITH GERMANS LONDON, July 19. Reports of purges, unrest, and civil disturbances on the Italian home front continue to reach neutral countries. The latest Stockholm reports, obtained from travellers just arrived from Italy, state that under preparations for civil war and eventual hos tilities against Germany have begun in Italy. Reports says that Mussolini’s secret police arrested 2000 civilians last week and sent them to prison camps. Despite police countermeasures, opposition elements are distributing arms and ammunition among people with anti-Fascist sympathies. Clashes between armed anti-Fascists and small German detachments are reported in many places. In Florence, three students were killed in a fight with German' soldiers. At Trieste, hand grenades were thrown on to a German air force lorry standing outside the German Consulate.
Broadcasting to the Italian people, Signor Scorza admitted that the Italians had lost the initiative in the Mediterranean and he warned Italians that they were now forced to defend
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXX, Issue 21152, 21 July 1943, Page 3
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