KICK GERMANS OUT

Dominion, Volume 36, Issue 29, 29 October 1942, Page 5

KICK GERMANS OUT

La Guardia’s Appeal To Italians NEW YORK, October 27. The mayor of New York, Mr. La Guardia, revealed that in a shortwave broadcast to the Italians'in August he appealed direct to King Victor Emmanuel to kick the Germans out. “Don’t permit this slaughter to continue,” he urged. “There is still time to return to your friends. Millions of your former subjects are now loyal Americans who stand solidly behind the American Republic. In their name, I appeal to you. Let us stand together for peace and freedom as in 1918.”

Speaking in Pennsylvania, Mr. La Guardia urged that Herr Hitler, the Emperor Hirohito, and Signor Mussolini should be executed or placed in captivity before the peace conferences. A Geneva message says that the hostile attitude of Italian Catholics toward the war was mentioned by the newspaper “Regima Fascista” in an article extolling the confidence of the Italian soldiers, compared with the pessimism of the Catholics. The “Regima Fascista” suggested: “The soldiers should visit the editors of the various' Catholic newspapers in order to inspire the staffs with confidence in victory.” The Berne correspondent of the London “Evening Standard” quoted au Italian who has just returned from the bombed areas as saying that 10,000 people who rushed for one shelter in Genoa during the R.A.F. raid on October 23 became jammed in the gates and panic broke out. As the throng jammed into the restricted space bombs began to fall in the port area. The crowd used their fists to get to the shelter, and women and children fell down and were trampled on. Troops at the entrance to the shelter made efforts to disentangle the mob before the situation got out of hand, but only heightened the confusion because someone shouted: “The soldiers are trying to get into the shelter.”