RUINS OF POMPEII
MODERN ADDED TO OLD Recd. 6 p.m. London, Sept. 30. “The ruins of Pompeii have taken on a new meaning,’’ says the British United Press correspondent with the Fifth Army. “Modern Pompeii is ruined, and ancient Pompeii is still more ruined. The damage was done during the final battle which cracked the German defences before Naples. “When I entered Pompeii yesterday morning with the first British troops, German tanks working their way around Mt. Vesuvius were pumping shells into the town. The inevitable tourist guide was still doing business. One popped out of a bomb crater and we crawled through the ruins. We found the amphitheatre intact, .but the forum, the museum and other places were damaged.’’
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 87, Issue 233, 2 October 1943, Page 5
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