BADOGLIO’S TACTICS
ITALY CANNOT BREAK BONDS ACCORDING TO ROME RADIO. ATTEMPTS TO ORGANISE LAST DITCH STAND. (By Telegraph—Press Association— Copyright) LONDON, August 10.. Marshal Badoglio is desperately trying to unite the Italian people for a last-ditch stand, says the British United Press correspondent on the Swiss frontier. “To expect that Italy will desert Germany at this crucial moment in the war and trade her national honour for escape from the fighting is an insult,” said the Rome radio. “Italy cannot break her bonds. The fact that the greater part of Sicily is in the enemy’s hands is no reason for throwing up the sponge. A war is not lost or won till the last battle is fought, and the last battle in this war is a long way away yet.” The correspondent adds that the Government is reported to be bitterly against any peace terms which would give Yugoslavia such Adratic ports as Fiume and Trieste; however, Italians are hinting that they would, of course, make peace immediately if the Allies would guarantee the territorial integrity of metro-politan Italy. The fact that the Italian people must know that such terms are unacceptable is only likely to increase the discontent, particularly in the bigger Italian cities. FASCIST POLICE RETAINED. The Milan correspondent of the Swiss newspaper “Die Tat” says it is significant that the 0.V.R.A., the secret Fascist police, is still in existence throughout Italy, though the Fascist Party has been disbanded for some time. The Associated Press correspondent in Switzerland says that the renewed air raids in northern Italy have resulted in increased strikes and underground political opposition. Troops are being used in Genoa to keep the workers at their jobs. A number of imprisoned Leftists at Turin were released in an effort to appease the population. The Socialists are continuing their effort to start a nation-wide general strike. Germany is reported to have agreed to the return home of all the Italian troops who hitherto have been in the European fortress, says the correspondent. Those in the Balkans and France are already being withdrawn and are being replaced by Germans. The agreement is believed to have been reached during von Ribbentrop’s visit to Rome last week.
The Madrid correspondent of the
“Daily Mail,” says that Field-Marshal Rommel is reported to have taken four panzer divisions and other reinforcements to Salonika to take over from the Italian garrison the 250-mile defence line in Greece from Yanina, in western Thessally, to Dodeagach, on the western tip of the Thracian coast. The Germans, apparently believing that Greece is the next Allied objective, are building new airfields behind this line.
According to the “Daily Telegraph’s” Istanbul correspondent, after a Greek patriot force derailed a German troop train between Larissa and Athens 120 dead and wounded were taken from the wreckage and the line was blocked for several days. It is learned from Rome that General Badoglio’s Minister of the Interior has resigned.
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