FOUR MEN IN A JEEP
“CAPTORS’ OF NAPLES
Recd. 8 p.m. London. Oct. 2. Noel Monks cabled that Naples was ‘‘taken” by a jeep carrying three correspondents and himself. “We drove in ahead of British and American patrols which were awaiting outside the city,” he said. “Thousands of yelling, Hysterical people rushed up, tore us bodily from the jeep and smothered us with embraces. The crowd grew until 20,000 were pressing around the jeep, where they stayed until the first patrol cars arrived. They were then swamped under an avalanche of screeching humans. Above the hubbub cries or ‘saved!’ and ‘Liberty for everyone!’, ‘Long live Britain and America’ were heard. Hundreds of Italian soldiers fired their rifles into the air. It must have been one of the most amazing scenes in Italian history, and certainly in the history of Naples.”
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 87, Issue 234, 4 October 1943, Page 5
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