IN ITALY

Hokitika Guardian, 9 December 1940, Page 5

IN ITALY

ARMAMENT EXPERT

BADOGLIO’S SUCCESSOR.

(United Press Association—By Electrio Telegraph—Copyright)

LONDON, December 7,

General Cavellero (replaces Marshal Badoglio in Albania. General Cavellero was for some years Chairman of the Great Ansaldo Armaments Works, and he has the reputation of being closely identified with Sogno'r'MussolmPs clecisions. Ho is sixty-one years of age. His field experience has been confined to the War of Libyan Conquest of 1912-14. His present task as seen in military circles in London,, is that of co-ordin-ation of defence. .

TURKS PLEASED.

BY BADOGLIO’S RESIGNATION.

ANKARA, December 7.

The resignation of Marshal Badoglio sent a knowing chuckle through official Turkish quarters. It gave' a fresh, inipulse to Turkey’s determination to, stick to the British alliance and give Greece moral and economic support, and to fight if the Germans attempt to aid the Italians by marching through Bulgaria. , ■ ' .

ANOTHER RESIGNATION.

LONDON, December 7-

It is officially stated that General Devecchi has resigned, at his own request, as Governor of the Dodecanese Islands, and is succeeded by General Ettore Bastico.

General Devecchi was-one of the Signor Mussolini’s principal lieutenants in the Fascist revolution. He is described as one of the most pugnacious! figures thrown up by Fascism. He was seriously injured in an encounter with Communists in 1921, when he fought in the streets in the early days of Fascism. His successor in the Dodecanese command, General Bastico, participated in the, 1914-18, war. He commanded a Blackshirt Division in Abyssinia, and had a high position in the Italian volunteers in Spain. r

VON KEITEL TO BE CONSULTED. ROME, December 7.

General Cavallero is expected to confer with General vori Keitel (Chief of the German General/;Staff) • soon**'? and also to make aii Tnspection trip/to Albania.-:' 4". \k ~.V4 . 3?- f.j

GERMAN CONTROL.

LONDON, December 7.

A Reuter- correspondent on the Italian frontier says ; “Some- political observers connect General Badoglio’s resignation with rumours that Germany is willing to help Italy in Albania only if the Italian forces are placed under German control. It is believed that Marshal Badoglio wished to maintain an independent Italian command.”