NAZIS BOASTING

Wairarapa Times-Age, 29 January 1941, Page 5

NAZIS BOASTING

OF INFLUX OF TROOPS INTO ITALY - REPORTS OF DISORDERS DENIED. 1 MUSSOLINI'S ALLEGED CONFIDENCE, i I (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) LONDON, January 28. The Berlin radio last night boasted of the influx of German forces into Italy. It broadcast a colourful description of endless trains laden with munitions and arms rumbling across the Brenner Pass, and declared the great pleasure of the German soldiers in going to Italy. .as they realised the confidence I Mussolini had placed in them, j The "Daily Telegraph's" Belgrade ; correspondent says that the German military in Milan occupies the telephone exchange, post office, railway station and several factories. Reports says that disorders are spreading to the large towns in the Po Valley, whore garrisons have resorted to arms. The Rome radio says that the reports of unrest are untrue and that any German soldiers in Milan are either en route to air bases or are interpreters. CONTROL AND ARRESTS. The "New York Times" Belgrade correspondent says the German army has assumed complete control of ail censorship and all communications in Milan and Turin, where German soldiers and secret police have suppressed rioting and demonstrations. Arrests of persons identified as "suspect officers and Black Shirts." and also of workmen. continue. The casualties during the riots at Milan. Turin. and elsewhere are reported to be numerous. The original report of the shooting on Friday by the Germans of three Black Shirt officers identified as generals is confirmed by most reliable sources. Bread-line riots are reported to have occurred at Trieste on January 18. where 20 women who were arrested as defeatists were released after swallowing castor oil. Fighting between officers and men in Trieste Black Shirt barracks is reported to have occurred on January 16. and wholesale arrests continued in North Italv from January 21 to 24. Posters are circulating abundantly in North Italy, including some stating "Down with Germany;" and also "Italian people, stand fast! Emmanuel and Badoglio will be your deliverers." FASCIST LEADERS SIX SO FAR SENT TO FRONT. MUSSOLINI TAKING CHARGE OF FOREIGN POLICY. It is announced in Rome, the 8.8. C. reports, that two more Fascist leaders, the Minister of Public Works and the Minister of National Education, one of the founders of Fascism, have been sent to the front. Including Count Ciano. who is reported to be in command "f a bomber squadron, this makes six Fascist leaders who have been sent to lhe front. The "New York Tinies” considers that the departure of Count Ciano means that Mussolini intends to take sole charge of Italian foreign policy.