PRICE ITALY PAYS
PORT FOR GERMANY USE FOR TROOP MOVES ' LONDON, July 15. It is suggested in London that the granting to Germany of a free zone in the Italian Adriatic port of Trieste is the price Italy pays for Germany agreeing to transfer the German population from the Tyrol, and thus remove a possible source of friction between the two countries. Germany has been operating Trieste as a free port for at least a month and the Italian authorities no longer exercise any control. Policing is entirely in the hands of the German Gestapo (secret police). A considerable number of German troops have been embarking for Libya every week, Italy providing the transports and using methods much the same as those used to land German troops in Spain. Groups of 300 to 400 arrive, clad in civilian clothes or labour battalion uniforms.
Military equipment arrives in packing cases and is not distributed until the transports reach the open sea.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 19997, 24 July 1939, Page 5
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