GERMAN PLAN

Wairarapa Times-Age, 3 August 1943, Page 4

GERMAN PLAN

TO CONSCRIPT ITALIANS IN BALKANS FOR WORK IN RUHR FACTORIES. WARNING GIVEN BY ALGIERS RADIO. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) (Received This Day, 9.55 a.m.) LONDON, August 2. A warning that the Germans would do everything possible to prevent the Italian Balkan troops

from returning home, was broad-

cast to Italy by the Algiers radio, which reported that the Germans

were disarming Italian troops in

Yugoslavia and also in Greece and Crete.

“Already the Germans are carrying off the supplies of Italian troops and exposing them to starvation and to the revenge of Greeks, Yugoslavs and Albanians,” the radio stated. “The facts are clear. The German plan is to transport Italian soldiers from the Balkans to Germany, to work in the factories of the Ruhr. The Badoglio Goverhment, by its temporising policy, has jeopardised the lives of 500,000 Italian soldiers in the Balkans.” Reuter’s Chiasso (Switzerland) correspondent says the Germans are taking over the control of all strategic positions in North Italy. The Berne correspondent of the “Svenska Dagbladet” says Bulgarian and German troops are replacing the Italians in Greece.

Reuter's Lugano correspondent, quoting the “Liberia Stampa,” says that owing to hunger all the Fascists in Como have surrendered. Peace demonstrations and processions have continued.