WAR ITEMS

Grey River Argus, 4 December 1943, Page 6

WAR ITEMS

FASCIST REPRISALS. LONDON, Nov. 25. A Swiss newspaper “Libera Stampa” says: Lorries loaded with Fascist soldiers fighting incessantly drove through Ferrara, when reprisals were ordered for the assassination a. week ago of Ferrara’s Fascist delegate, Ohisseline, Pavolini, SecretaryGeneral of the new Fascist Party, ordered reprials. Workers were shut ■ in factories and pedestrians hurried home, where doors and windows were barred. About 300 whose attitude to the new Fascist Party was doubtful, were taken from offices, factories and homes, and imprisoned in a mediaeval castle. Twelve of them were taken to the castle’s court and shot in the back with revolvers without trial Fascist soldiers guarded the corpses all night in a square outside the castle. Several prominent citizens were found in the morning among the dead. ! FOREIGN WORKERS IN GERMANY RUGBY, Nov. 26. A wireless appeal to half a million Czechoslovak slave workers employed in Germany and Austria to use the R.A.F. raids for escaping is being made from London. The appeal states: “Yesterday it was Berlin. To-morrow it will’be Munich, Nuremburg, Leipzig, Dresden, Dusseldorf, or Vienna. During the bombing panic and chaos ensues. Registration files are often destroyed. Gestapo control is weakening. Workers in Western Germany try to escape into France. Belgium and Holland, workers in Southern Austria can go to brotherlv Jugoslavia, workers in Central and Eastern Germany and . Northern Austria can return home to Bohemia and Slovakia. It is diffi- ; cult, but a helping hand is being stretched out to yo u at home in the ■ south and west by brothers and : friends. We have received news , that in the forests of Bohemia and Slovakia you can find refuge. In Germany, on the other hand, all industrial towns, one by one, will go up in the flames of Hell." A young ensign, with less than a year’s navy experience, took command, and ordered the searchlights to be turned on 111 survivvors swimming in thousands of gallons of oil, to which rescuing destroyers raced. The ensffin next directed the crew to extinguish the boiler fire, which threatened to set the oil on fire. Temporary repa’rs were then made and by midnight, three hours after the col- • fission, the half-destroyer was being > towed to New York, which was reach- : ed within 24 hours. It was the smal-’ ’ lest section of a destroyer ever pull- i ! ed into any port. Thirty-one members of the crew are missing. •