UNREST AND MUTINY
ITALIAN GARRISONS IN GREECE,
P.A. Cable.
LONDON, Oct. 13.
Alarming reports of unrest and mutiny among the Italian garrisons in Greece caused Mussolini recently to visit Athens, says the Cairo correspondent of the Telegraph. The troops for months have been displaying increasing reluctance to be drafted from the comparatively easygoing garrison duty to the uninviting Western Desert.' A large part of a regiment recently blew up a ship at the quayside at Keradzini near the Piraeus which was waiting to embark them. Two hundred ringleaders were manacled in groups of four and marched to a concentration camp through Athens. The population turned out and cheered.
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Marlborough Express, Volume LXXVI, Issue 243, 15 October 1942, Page 5
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108UNREST AND MUTINY Marlborough Express, Volume LXXVI, Issue 243, 15 October 1942, Page 5
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