ITALIAN TROOPS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 7 September 1943, Page 3

ITALIAN TROOPS

DEFINITELY IN STATE OF MUTINY ACCORDING TO CANADIAN CORRESPONDENT. USE OF READY-MADE WHITE FLAGS. ' (By Telegraph—Press Association— Copyright) (Received This Day, 9.30 a.m.) LONDON, September 6. The Canadian Press representa- > ive in the Mediterranean war zone ' said: “The Italian army definitely appears to be in a state of mutiny. The, Nazis have recognised the futility of looking to their allies for assistance and reorganised their whole defensive scheme at the last minute. The Italians are surrendering with even greater alacrity than in Sicily, and say they have orders to lay fdown their arms. The unanimity a with which 'they appeared with' ready-made whie flags, and their belongings fully packed in their best civilian suitcases, is too impressive to be written off as a coincidTeelgraph” Agency’s Bagnara correspondent says the com-

mandos who captured Bagnara landed unobserved, entered the town, found and knocked out a number of German machine-gun points, and killed or took prisoner a number of enemy troops, while others fled, to the hills. The Italians surrendered without a fight. One party of Germans, which had left Scylla on the previous evening, was trapped between two Allied forces, and also fled to the hills. . A Rome • communique says the Axis troops have fallen back to new positions.