ITALIANS NERVOUS
“DUNKIRK” FLEET MOBILISED (United Press Assn-.—Elec. Tel. Copyright; LONDON, March 8 Mussolini has mobilised a “Dunkirk” fleet of small craft, which has taken up positions on the coast of Sicily ready to evacuate civilians immediately the Axis position in Tunisia collapses, according to a neutral business man who has arrivel in Ankara from Milan. The business man asserted that the nervousness and depression of the Italians suggested that many believed that Tunisia was already practically lost. Bombing by the Royal Air Forcehad considerably hastened the waning morale of Ihe Italians. The situation in southern Italy was already critical. Trade communications had ceased in some areas, and the discontent was spreading. This was especially so in Naples, Salerno, Palermo, Controne and Catania, where huge anti-Government demonstrations had occurred. Frequent riots had taken place in the towns of Calabria and Sicily after the food shortage and dislocation of the railways caused by raids from Malta-based planes.
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Waikato Times, Volume 132, Issue 21982, 10 March 1943, Page 3
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