NERVOUSNESS IN ITALY

Manawatu Standard, Volume LXV, Issue 237, 5 September 1945, Page 6

NERVOUSNESS IN ITALY

PARTISANS WELL ARMED

(Rec. 2.10 p.m.) ROME, Sept. 4. Thousands of partisans who fought the Germans and Fascists in North Italy with arms supplied by the Allies or captured from the enemy have given up shotguns, pistols, knives and museum pieces in response to the Allied Military Government proclamations, but. as raids have shown, they retained their machine-guns and sub-machine-guns. The partisans possess even mortars and anti-tank guns. The Associated Press correspondent says Italian Government officials or at least the Right Wing elements are concerned about the capacity of. the police to control any widespread rioting which might break out when the Allied forces leave .the territory. The Italian News Agency reports that one Communist was killed and two seriously injured in street fighting with Polish soldiers in the village of Palagianello, near Taranto, on September 2. The fighting began when Italian civilians refused the Polish soldiers' request to remove Communist emblems and slogans from a wall. Polish Headquarters, commenting on the alleged clash at Palagianello deny knowledge of any incident and say that such reports are part of a campaign to discredit the Polish Second Corps