Former Fascist Party Secretary Shot Dead

Northern Advocate, 26 August 1943, Page 3

Former Fascist Party Secretary Shot Dead

(Rec. 11 a.rn.) LONDON. August 25. The former general secretary for the Fascist Party (Ettore Muti) has been shot dead. An Italian news agency says that after discovery of serious abuses in administration, Mull was arrested on Monday. While carabinieri "were leading him to barracks, shots were fired from a neighbouring wood and Muti attempted to escape. He was chased and fatally wounded.

the enemy. One Red Army formation wiped out over 800 of Hitler’s forces.,. German prisoners report that in the 24th German Infantry Division, only three to six men of every company is still fitThe others have been killed or wounded. South of Isyum particularly fierce fighting occurred on the approaches to a stronglv fortified keypoint of enemy defence. Soviet troops broke in and occupied it and 1000 enemy troops were killed. In Bryansk direction. Soviet troops dislodged the enemy from four localities: On the Leningrad front, a Soviet detachment wiped cut 400 of Hitler’s army. In the Gulf of Riga and Gulf of Finland, Soviet naval units and units of the air arm sank two enemy transports totalling 80C0 tons, one escorting vessel and one esccrting cutter.

More Soviet air attacks were announced officially by Moscow radio tonight. “Last night Soviet aircraft' attacked a railway junction at Deballsevo and railway stations including Bnrvenkova. As a result of bombing, several enemy ammunition dumps were blown up and several military trains were wrecked. “On the same night aircraft raided concentrations of enemy troops, tanks and lorries south-west of Kharkov. Our aircraft were subjected to strong bombing of aerodromes on which the enemy had concentrated planes. Explosions at aerodromes were observed. Two Soviet planes failed to return,”