GERMAN TROOPS SENT TO ITALY?
DIVISION OF ARMAMENTS FROM CZECHOSLOVAKIA
LONDON, March 30.
Swiss reports allege that German troops have been moving ihto Italy through the Brenner Pass and from there to Libya (North Africa) and that the German and Italian dictators are sharing the military equipment and munitions of the demobilized Czech army. Swiss military observers, says a message from Geneva, believe that 200,000 German troops are massed near the Swiss border and are crossing the Brenner Pass.
According to the military observers immense stocks of Czechoslovakian guns, materials and ammunition are crossing the Brenner Pass from Germany. This substantiates hitherto unconfirmed rumours that Herr Hitler and Signor Mussolini agreed to halve the Czechoslovakian armaments in payment to Signor Mussolini for Herr Hitler’s enlargement of his sphere of influence, and explains the rumours that the Brenner Pass has become choked.
The observers point out that much Italian equipment is antiquated and dates from the Great War. Therefore, the Czech armament is most welcome. Most of the Czech anti-aircraft equipment has been sent to German industrial areas, but other small, light armament has been earmarked for Italy.
It is estimated that the total Czech equipment is sufficient to equip 40 divisions.
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Southland Times, Issue 23794, 17 April 1939, Page 8
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