ITALIANS IN GREECE MUTINY
DRAFT TO DESERT UNPOPULAR TRANSPORT SHIP BLOWN UP London, Oct. 13. Alarming reports of unrest and mutiny among the Italian garrison in Greece caused Mussolini recently to visit Athens, says the Cairo correspondent of the “Daily Telegraph.” Troops for months have been displaying an increasing reluctance to be drafted from the comparatively easy-going garrison duty to the uninviting Western Desert. A large part of a regiment recently' blew up a ship at the quayside of Keradzini, near 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. —P.A.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 77, 15 October 1942, Page 5
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