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ITALIAN ROYAL FAMILY Recd. 11 p.m. Ottawa, Oct. 3. How the Italian Royal Family passed unmolested through the German lines to southern Italy following the German occupation of Rome, was related by Crown Prine? Umberto in an interview with the representative of the Montreal Gazette in Potenza. "When we heard the Germans were moving into Rome my father decided he must carry on his duties. The place was not occupied by the Germans when Mussolini fell. German soldiers in Italy heani a rumour that Hitler was killed and they fairly jumped with joy, believing the war over. I think that is why our car got through the lines safely.” An aide-de-camp ' said the Germans may have mistaken the Royal party for army officers moving to the front. He added that the party boarded an Italian torpedo-boat at midnight and headed southward. The King slept for eight hours on the open deck of little craft—"not bad for 73 years,” he commented.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 87, Issue 234, 4 October 1943, Page 5
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