ALLIED TROOPS QUIT ITALY BY DATE SET
LOXDOX, Dec. 9. The Dailv Telegraph's A'enice corres pondent says Italian shore batteries iired a ten-gun salute on December 8 as transports sailed for Southainpton with. tlie last of the British military nnits from Italy. The last Amerieans are expected to sail from Legliorn in a few davs, thus completing the Allied evacuation by December 15, the date set by tho peace treaty. A small number of troops of both "nations will remain to make final adjustments. The British contingont numbers about 100 oiticers and men. On December 14 they will exchange their uniforms for eivilian clothes.
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Chronicle (Levin), 10 December 1947, Page 5
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