Panic at Genoa
LONDON, Oct. 27. The Evening Standard’s Berne correspondent quoted an Italian who had Just returned from the bombed areas as saying that 10,000 people who rushed for one shelter in Genoa during the R.A.F. raid on Friday became jambed in the gates and panic broke out. As the throng jambed into the restricted space, bombs began to fall in the port area. The crowd used their fists to get to shelter and women and children fell down and were trampled on. Troops at the entrance of the shelter made an effort to disentangle the mob before the situation got out of hand, but they only heightened the confusion because someone shouted that the soldiers were trying to get into the shelter.
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Manawatu Times, Volume 67, Issue 256, 29 October 1942, Page 5
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124Panic at Genoa Manawatu Times, Volume 67, Issue 256, 29 October 1942, Page 5
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