EXODUS FROM ITALY.
FUGITIVES CROSS ALPS.
ALLEGATIONS BY MONKS. LONDON. August 5. Further complications in connection with the exodus of Italians across the Swiss border, en route to France, are disclosed by the monks of the St. Bernard Hospice, who allege that the Fascist frontier guards fired on them on the ■ Cisalpine side of the border while they were searching for the body of a Valaiiiian woman lost in the snow in the winter, says the Geneva correspondent of the Manchester Guardian. The fusillade twice forced the monks to seek refuge behind boulders. Italian fugitives declare that the passes are heavily guarded to prevent the exodus. Public sympathy throughout Switzerland has been aroused by details of the sufferings of a woman with a broken leg, who was deserted, with two children, in a hut. The refugees declare that unemployment and not political reasons, prompts them* to leave Northern Italy, where unemployment is so prevalent that they prefer to risk death in the mountains to certain starvation in their homes.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20642, 14 August 1930, Page 11
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