ITALIAN PARTISANS

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 79, 15 August 1944, Page 2

ITALIAN PARTISANS

THREAT BY GERMAN (Rec. 10.20 a.m.) London, Aug. 14 The Germans have threatened to burn any village and shoot all men over 18 where attacks are made on Germans or where Italian Partisans are hiding, says a Rome correspondent. This was revealed in a captured German pamphlet signed by the commander-in-chief of the German armed forces. Any Italians found possessing arms or explosives or in any way helping Partisans will also be shot. Sniping is decreasing in Florence and Amgot officials are flow able to get water and medical supplies to the civi-

lian population, reports to-day’s Allied communique from Italy. Active patrolling continues on the remainder of the front The Germans thoroughly and scientifically pillaged Florence, says the Florence correspondent of "The Times.” They even took down the electric tramways’ copper cables, rolled them up and carried them off. The Germans took surgical and optical instruments from hospitals and private practitioners’ surgeries. They took all the machinery from the principal factories, including the Galileo optical and precision instruments works. There was also an immense amount of indiscriminate looting of shops. AIR FORCE TARGETS R.A.F. heavy and medium bombers attacked shipping and port installations at Genoa, states a Rome correspondent. During the day Fortresses and Liberators bombed military installations in the Toulon and Marseilles areas for the second consecutive day. They also attacked similar targets along the north-west coast of Italy near Genoa. Targets for Marauders and Mitchells in southern France were radib installations and gun positions which Lightnings and Mustangs divebombed as well as Montel'imar aerodrome. a hundred miles north of Marseilles. where a number of aircraft were destroyed on the ground. Bridges across the Rhone and Eygues rivers were also bombed, while Beaufighters attacked an enemy boat off the Ligurian coast, leaving it smoking and sinking. Medium bombers bombed oil storage installations at Vado and Lioure.