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DANGEROUS JOB

UNDERTAKEN BY AMERICANS OF ITALIAN EXTRACTION. SMUGGLED INTO SICILY BEFORE INVASION. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) NEW YORK, July 29. The columnist Drew Pearson learns that many American soldiers of Italian extraction were smuggled into Sicily weeks before the landing. How they got ashore, he said, is a military secret, but it may be disclosed that they were specially trained in the dangerous and delicate job of winning over the military garrisons. They visited families in which only a few loved Mussolini, and worked on anti-Fascist officers and bribed Black Shirts. Sicilian refugee families, estimated at 150,000, are struggling back to Palermo from the shelter of the mountains in long straggling convoys, with their possessions piled high in carts, says Reuter's Sicilian correspondent. Many Sicilians found that Italian troops had used their homes as billets and removed or damaged their furniture. The refugees are now venting their wrath on a gloomy line of Italian prisoners sitting on the kerbside awaiting transport. The inner city of Palermo is returning to normal. A correspondent with the Seventh Army says that Allied military authorities are to liberate 300 Italian political prisoners who were gaoled by the Fascists in Sicily.

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Wairarapa Times-Age, 30 July 1943, Page 3

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196

DANGEROUS JOB Wairarapa Times-Age, 30 July 1943, Page 3

DANGEROUS JOB Wairarapa Times-Age, 30 July 1943, Page 3

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