POPE AS PROTECTOR
ROMANS FEEL SECURITY AGAINST AIR RAIDS London, Oct. 6 | 'lhe people id Rome icgard the} presence of the Pope as their protection. and thei dore they are on th" whole little concerned about air raids, says the former Rome coi respondentof lhe Pans newspaper Le Temps. M. Gentizon. The Romans refer to the Pop<* as “our Pontilicial lightning conductor." Nevertheless, the ah-laid sirens are tested every day and the blackout is rigorously enfoicod. even at the Vatican. The people of Italy aie not sup ! posed to listen to toreign ladio broad- . casts, but no penalty is provided foi ; offenders unless they spread what they hear, says M Gentizon. He esti- i mates that Germany is sending to Italy a million tons of coal a month i but he thinks that ’no electrificalior. of lhe railways oy means of hydro j electric power is the main facto i which is enabling Itaiy to resist the J economic blockade. He says he saw little misery in Rome, but he noticed i that there was not much food in the ‘.shops and that the clothing had be|come simplified. including much] arificial fibre. U P.A
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 85, Issue 237, 8 October 1941, Page 5
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