MANY SOLDIERS
MASSED IN ITALY FEARS OF ALLIED INVASION. AND THAT BULK OF PEOPLE WOULD NOT RESIST. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) (Received This Day, 12.20 p.m.) LONDON, June 17. More than 200,000 soldiers are at present in Italy and 150,000 were in the Naples area a fortnight ago, either awaiting embarkation to Libya or in readiness for local action. A British United Press correspondent on the Italian frontier, reporting this, says the Germans and Fascists fear an Allied invasion of Italy and also fear that a majority of Italians would not resist. ‘
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 18 June 1942, Page 4
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