UNREST IN ITALY

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 76, 16 October 1941, Page 5

UNREST IN ITALY

OFFICIALS DISMISSED HAIRED OI GERMANS Kitrnsii in v \sion asked i or London, 0(1. 14 Signor Mussolini has dismissed the prefects of 10 regions. The action, it is believed, is due to growing unre* t. They include the Prefect of Bolzano, who was removed at the request of the Germans because he was unfriendly to the German inhabitants in the Adige district. The prefects of districts which Mussolini recently visited retain their posts because they organised "spontaneous demonstrations" for the Duie. Mr David Edge, who accompaniec tlic last British Minister jii V ugo slavia, Sir Ronald C npbcll, from Belgrade, said to-day in a speech in Lon don: "Before I left Italy a genera asked me to try to persuade the Brit ish to invade Italy. He aid. ’That i the only way we will get rid of ih< Germans, who are squeezing the 1 if* out of the Italian people. We wan the complete destruction of Fascisn and the removal of Mussolini.* "An Italian Foreign Office officia said. ‘Why doesn’t England invade u and get us out of this war” I :■ pokto al the Italian officers and soldier I could, and they all disliked fightinj for the Axis. "The people in Italy to-day an starving. The Germans have taker the whole of the oil crops for explosives. Butter is unknown, and th< bread is made from bean and potat« flour and is uneatable. Moscow radio said it is reporter from Berne tiiat a number of Ger mans have been murdered in Italy Several officers and men last montl were killed and others disappeared Gei rr any has demanded that the Ital ian Government stop the assassins* Lons —U.l' .