MUSSOLINI’S APPEAL
GLORIOUS END IN BATTLE (Received Sept. 27, 11.30 a.m.) LONDON, Sept. 26 According to the Berlin radio Mussolini, appealing to the Italian troops, said: “I know you will gather around me. It is better to meet a glorious end on the battlefield than as traitors.”
The Republican Fascist Party has issued a decree extending compulsory labour in German-occupied Italy to Italians aged from 18 to 23 years.
The Goverrffnent of King Victor Emmanuel and Marshal Badoglio has established itself somewhere on the Italian Peninsula, from which it will co-ordinate resistance against the Germans in occupied Italy. The Swiss Telegraph Agency denies a statement by the Berlin radio that the Queen and Crown Prince of Italy have arrived in Switzerland. It states that they are probably in Sicily.
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Waikato Times, Volume 132, Issue 22153, 27 September 1943, Page 5
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