SOUTHERN ITALY
OFFICIALS PANIC-STRICKEN (Rec. 0.45 a.m.) LONDON, July 13. Reports from Italy indicate growing disorganisation, says Tass Agency, Moscow. Newly-appointed prefects in.a number of southern cities were unable to ensure the normal functioning of services, and tendered their resignations. One prefect said that when he arrived the city offices were almost empty. The panic-stricken officials had fled, many leaving the city for the country. Thousands of local residents, especially women with children, gather outside city offices demanding either food and shelter or that they should be evacuated to the north.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 25277, 14 July 1943, Page 3
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