ITALIAN EXECUTIONS
A WARNING TO GERMANS. LONDON. Jan. 12. Mussolini did not participate , in the trial of Count Ciano and the others. Neither did he submit a statement to the tribunal, says the Daily Telegraph's Zurich correspondent, quoting reports from Italy. A firing party of 20 Klackshirt volunteers' shot the condemned men, all of whom were accorded the privilege of not being shot in the back. They refused to have their eyes bound. After the last volley was fired the major in command lilted Ciano s body and said: "Justice has been done. Long live the Dtieel" Ciano s remains will be placed in the family vault at Leghorn. The correspondent says the order for the execution is believed to have come direct from Hitler. The truo reason why the death penally was enforced can be found in the Reich's internal conditions. K, is desired to cool the ardour of the anti-Nazi military cliques who might be ' contemplating a coup d'elafc such as led to tho overthrow of Mussolini.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LXIV, Issue 39, 14 January 1944, Page 5
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