SHOUTS FOR PEACE

Wairarapa Times-Age, 16 August 1943, Page 3

SHOUTS FOR PEACE

RAISED BY ITALIANS AS POPE VISITS BOMBED AREAS IN ROME. LIFE IN MILAN ALMOST PARALYSED. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) LONDON, August 14. New demonstrations against the war broke out in Milan yesterday after the heaviest R.A.F. raid, says Reuter’s correspondent. Life in Milan is almost paralysed. Troops are patrolling the streets, and firemen and soldiers struggled throughout the night trying to extinguish the fires. The British United Press correspondent on the Italian frontier says that fires were still raging in Milan yesterday afternoon. Trains which were due at Chiasso, in Switzerland, did not arrive, indicating that the railway station in Milan had been put out of action. The Rome radio said that the Pope watched the raid on Rome from tne windows in Vatican City, and he left for the raided areas immediately the all-clear was sounded. Crowds gathered round his car to receive blessing. He handed over large sums of money for aid to air raid victims.

A Swiss report stated that thousands

of people clustered round the Pope in the bombed areas shouting to him for, peace. The Pope nodded approvingly. Anti-war demonstrations spread throughout both Milan and Rome after the bombings.

MOSTLY ITALIANS PRISONERS TAKEN IN SICILY. (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, August 14. The number of prisoners for the Sicilian campaign is now officially announced at 125,000 and 500 guns, states an agency correspondent with the Eighth Army. The Eighth Army captured 30,000. including 2600 Germans, and the Americans 95,000, including between 2000 and 3000 Germans. The Americans captured 300 guns and the Eighth Army 200.

General Fiumara, deputy commander of the Napoli Division is among the prisoners. He was found wandering on a donkey.