7000 KILLED IN FORTNIGHT

New Zealand Herald, Volume 82, Issue 25203, 16 May 1945, Page 7

7000 KILLED IN FORTNIGHT

UNCONTROLLED PARTISAN EXTREMISTS By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright (Received May 15. 6.30 p.-.) LONDON. May IB Mass executions of Fascists and former collaborators are occurring in Northern Italy, says the Milan correspondent of the Daily Express. The executions are being carried out by Left Wing hav j ng t h e greatest difficulty in maintaining any sort of control over the partisans who are ruling parts of N o peop | e have execu ted in Milan in the past fortnight by Left Wing extremists and in Turin and the provinces 3000 more have been killed by partisan bands. Communist partisans shot Colonel Dalessi, the hero who organised the Italian Maquis and saved the great Spluga hydroelectric plant from destruction by the Germans. Attempts to disarm the extremist elements have met with strong resistance and unconfirmed reports state that fights have broken out between Communist and Allied occupation forces. The Manchester Guardian's Milan correspondent says that every morning city patrols find 20 to 30 murdered people in the rfreets, some of them Fascists, some partisans. The correspondent reports that three partisan leaders are now In Rome discussing with the Prime Minister, Signor Bonomi, the formation of a new police force in Northern Italy. Everywhere in Italy there is er growing clamour for the immediate arrest of all suspected Fascists.