ITALY WARNED
ROME TO BE BOMBED IF ATHENS AND CAIRO ARE ATTACKED. ADVANCE EXPOSURE OF AXIS TRICK. LONDON, April 17. If the German threat to bomb Athens and Cairo is carried out, says a statement issued by the British Government, British bombers will commence the systematic bombing of Rome, and once it begins it will continue until the end of the war. The greatest care will be taken not to bomb Vatican City, and strict orders to that effect have been issued. The statement exposed in advance a characteristic trick which the enemy was planning if Rome were bombed. It had come to the knowledge of Britain that an Italian squadron was being held ready to drop captured British bombs on the Vatican City should a British raid on Rome take place.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 19 April 1941, Page 5
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