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ITALIANS IN DESPERATE ' PLIGHT DEFEATISM AND DISCONTENT EXTENDING. FAILURE TO MEET MILITARY DEMANDS. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) LONDON, October 2. The Ankara correspondent of “The Times” says that the reports confirm that the Italians are at the end of their tether, and the situation in Italy is critical. There is a great shortage of equipment and raw materials. The Germans asked the Italians for 10 divisions for Russia, but they were able to send only three divisions and four battalions of Blackshirts. The discontent is growing fast throughout Italy, and serious riots have occurred in Sicily, where antiFascist demonstrations followed R.A.F. raids. According to Reuter’s Ankara correspondent, travellers say that German deliveries of munitions to Sicily are irregular, and this accounts for the poor resistance offered by the Italian antiaircraft defences. The Italians are now saying, “If Germany wins Italy loses her freedom. If Britain wins, Italy loses her empire.” Tobruk’s resistance is depressing the Italians, whose only consolation is the sight of the many German soldiers in Sicilian hospitals suffering from sunblindness and dysentery. ■
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 3 October 1941, Page 5
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