FALL OF MUSSOLINI

Wairarapa Times-Age, 29 September 1941, Page 5

FALL OF MUSSOLINI

PREDICTED BY BRITISH WRITER Industrial Sabotage on Terrific Scale GERMANS TAKING OVER CONTROL WHEAT CROP INSUFFICIENT TO COVER NEEDS L()Ni)< )N, September 28. The diplomatic correspondent ol' the “Sunday Express." writing under the streamer heading, “Italy on (he eve of break-up. ’’says : “ I id’ormat ion from the Italian frontier loreshadows imminent developments of the inmost importance. The situation in Italy is becoming critical. “Mussolini knows his throne is falling. The whole 1 of Italy is waiting for the end of Fascism. There is serious rioting in Milan and Turin, and the Germans have been obliged to take over complete control of tin 1 area. “Industrial sabotage is on a terrific scale. 'The great Fiat works have been practically put out of action as a result of sabotage and the British raiding." ('onrls-martial in northern Italy have convicted -145 Italians of sabotaging war material, according to reports reaching Switzerland. The courts have been established in Milan and Trieste to deal with saboteurs and defeatists, whose numbers are reported to be growing as hunger increases the Avar weariness of the Italian civilian population, A British war prisoner who was released under Hit 1 Syrian armistice terms says he received the impression while in an Italian hospital that the doctors, nurses and guards sympathised with the British cause and considered the war Germany's affair and not theirs. A Home message says that bread-rationing at 7oz. daily, to operate on October 1, was announced after a meeting of the Cabinet. A supplementary ration of 3!oz a day will bo allowed to workers generally, with a further 3M>z. lor those engaged in part iciilarly arduous, labour. Signor Mussolini stated that (he wheat crop is' insufficient to cover the needs of the Italian population and the occupied territories.