MASS EXECUTION OF FASCISTS

Southland Times, Issue 25673, 16 May 1945, Page 5

MASS EXECUTION OF FASCISTS

UNREST IN NORTHERN ITALY (Rec. 8 p.m.) LONDON, May 15. The mass execution 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 Italian Partisans. Allied troops are having the greatest difficulty in maintaining any sort of control over the Partisans, who are ruling parts of northern Italy. At least 4000 people have been executed 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 organized the Italian Maquis and saved the great Spluga hydro-electric 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 the Communists and the Allied occupation The Milan correspondent of The Manchester Guardian says that every morning city patrols find 20 or 30 murdered people in the streets. Some of them are Fascists and some PartiS3DS« The correspondent reports that three Partisan leaders are now in Rome discussing with the Italian Prime Minister, Signor Ivanoe Bonomi, the formation of a new police force in' northern Italy. Everywhere in Italy there is a growing clamour for the immediate arrest of all suspected Fascists.