WORKERS ON STRIKE

Wairarapa Times-Age, 6 August 1943, Page 4

WORKERS ON STRIKE

IN NORTHERN ITALY IN SUPPORT OF DEMAND , FOR PEACE. GERMAN MILITARY OCCUPATION. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) (Received This Day, 1.15 p.m.) LONDON, August 5. The workers in Milan, Turin and ether industrial centres are holding a daily half-hour sitdown strike until the Government signs peace. At Milan workers told the military command that there would be a general strike if the military intervened. The British United Press correspondent on the Swiss frontier says Italian press and radio statements that the people are willing to fight it out, certainly do not show the real position in Italy.

The presence of eighteen German divisions in Italy has been confirmed, reports the “Daily Mail’s” Madrid correspondent. They moved so rapidly last v/eek that now they are confident that should Badoglio yield to the Allies he can surrender only the part of Italy south of the River Po. The Rome radio, in a special announcement, ordered all Italian naval

personnel at present'on leave to hand in their addresses to the port authorities nearest to where they are staying, and all the men of the 1925 class who are to be called up for the Navy must report for medical examination. The underground Italian radio station broadcast a warning to the captains of Italian ships that orders are being flashed to scuttle their shins or take them to Toulon. “Ignore the orders,” said the radio, “as they come from the Germans.”