CHAOS INCREASING

Wairarapa Times-Age, 11 December 1942, Page 3

CHAOS INCREASING

ITALY’S INTERNAL POSITION IMMEDIATE REVOLT UNLIKELY. LATEST ADVICES RECEIVED BY AMERICA. (By Telegraph—" Press Association—Copyright) (Received This Day, 10.40 a.m.) LONDON, December 10. Mr Elmer Davis, director of the United States Office of War .Information, said although chaos was increasing in Italy, advices to the United States Government indicate no immediate prospects of an Italian revolt against the Germans.

GERMAN CONCERN

PREPARATIONS FOR DEFENCE OF SOUTH ITALY. EVACUATION OF CIVILIANS ORDERED. (By Telegraph—(Press Association —Copyright) , (Received This Day, 10.40 a.m.) LONDON, December 10. According to a message from Zurich, quoted by the Moscow radio, Germany has asked Italy immediately to evacuate the civil population from Sicily and Sardinia and the provinces of Calabra, Apulia and Campagna, forming the toe of the heel of Italy, in order that the areas can be converted into defence zones. Italian forces in Southern Italy and the islands will be entirely subordinated to German command. Berlin military circles legald Corsica of great strategic importance and a highranking German officer lias been given command of the garrison. The commander-in-chief of the German forces in the Balkans has ai rived in South Italv to-participate at a conference of German generals on the defence of the French and Italian coast and the Balkans.