SUICIDE REPORTED
FATE OF MUSSOLINI SWEDISH PRESS REPORT (10 a.m.), LONDON. Nov. 23. The Zurich correspondent of" the Stockholm paper Dagens Nyheter says that Mussolini is reported to have committed suicide yesterday at his Lake Garda villa in a fit of depression. There is no confirmation of this report from any other source. According to a reporter of the Deutsche Allegemeine Zeitung, Mussolini, who is now living at the Villa Feltrinelli, at Fasano, Lake Garda, is a sick man and is in the hands oi a German medical specialist. The exDuce lives and works on the first and second floors. The park surrounding the villa is patrolled day and night by storm troopers, who also guard the harbour. A reporter who visited the villa was surprised to find no women no civilians attending Mussolini. The house-work and table service are all done by orderlies. The visit of the reporter coincided with a “cabinet council.” Everybody rose as Mussolini entered, dressed in a militia uniform richly decorated with medals. The Duce assumed his imperatorial attitude. Traces of exhaustion have disappeared from ihis face, but he is leaner and looks older.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXX, Issue 21260, 24 November 1943, Page 3
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189SUICIDE REPORTED Gisborne Herald, Volume LXX, Issue 21260, 24 November 1943, Page 3
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