DEFENCE OF ITALY
REPORTED DEMANDS BY CROWN PRINCE & HIGH COMMAND. PRESENTED TO THE KING. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) (Received This Day. 11 a.m.) LONDON, December 28. The Crown Prince Umberto and members of the Italian High Command have protested to King Victor Emmanuel that Italy is virtually undefended. They demanded, in a strongly-worded memorandum, that Italy’s main attention should be diverted to the defence of Corsica and Sardinia and to “the restoration of Italy’s full independence by “the elimination of foreign influence.”
This is stated in a message from Lausanne, quoted by Moscow. Among the proposed measures for home security are demands that all Italian troops be withdrawn from the Russian front, formation of women’s battalions for coastal defence and the calling up of sixteen-year-old boys for military service.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 29 December 1942, Page 2
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