POSITION SHAKEN

Wairarapa Times-Age, 12 August 1943, Page 4

POSITION SHAKEN

BADOGLIO GOVERNMENT REASON FOR MINISTER'S RESIGNATION. CONTINUANCE OF MARTIAL LAW. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) (Received This Day, 10.45 a.m.) LONDON, August 11. The Badoglio Government has been shaken by the resignation of its Minister of Home Affairs, Signor Fornaciaro, as a protest against the continuance of martial law, says the Berne correspondent of the “New York Times.” Signal Fornaciaro has taken with him much of the support of rhe Catholic Popular Party. The Prefect of Naples resigned for the same reason. A big reshuffle of Italian prefects is announced in a decree issued by King Victor Emmanuel and broadcast by ’the Rome radio. The decree gives the names of at least eleven prefects who have been placed on pension and a number of others have been transferred to different posts. _ Many of the districts affected, including Naples and Leghorn, are on Italy’s “invasion coast.”

French patriots drove back Italian patrols more than three miles, in a pitched battle at Cluses, south of Grenoble, reports ther Geneva newspape “La Suisse.” Officers commanded the patriots and there were casualties on both sides.