FURIOUS TIRADE

Wairarapa Times-Age, 10 September 1943, Page 4

FURIOUS TIRADE

POUREfi OUT ON ITALY BY NAZIS COARSE ABUSE AND MAZE OF CONTRADICTIONS. HOWLS ABOUT GANGSTERISM AND TREACHERY. (By Telegraph—Press Association— Copyright) • (Received This Day, 1 p.m.) LONDON, September 7. Reports from Germany indicate furious anger at Italy's capitulation. This has resulted in outbursts of the coarsest abuse, and also in a mgze of contradictions. For instance: Italy deceived and betrayed Germany, but Germany knew all that was going on. One official Berlin spokesman, quoted by a Swedish newspaper, said: “Badoglio’s gangsterism and satanic behaviour is the falsest treachery in the history of the world.” Another said the trouble was that Mussolini was far too great a man for such a nation. His fall was the result of a criminal conspiracy. A* Wilhelmstrasse spokesman told Swedish correspondents that as late as 5 p.m. on Wednesday ,the Chief of the Italian General Staff denied to the German Charge d’Affaires in. Rome that any armistice had been signed, and added that the measures taken after September 3 seem to have been mainly designed to deceive Italy’s ally. The Germans threaten “action which will cause the world considerable surprise.” Correspondents suggest that this will include the Luftwaffe’s bombing of Italy. Suedermann. Deputy Press Chief to the German Government, said: “This event will go down in history as the most indecent, most spineless, and, for its prime movers, most devastating act of a clique of traitors.” Another Berlin spokesman declared: “Victor Emmanuel is a big little double-crosser.” Dr. Schmicit, Chief of the Foreign Office Press Department, declared mat the Italian Government, in its treacherous attitude, attempted to draw me German Government as far as possible into the catastrophe of an armistice. Germany, together with those Italians who recognised the deceit practised against them, would defend those parts of Italy which were indispensable for the defence of Europe. “German divisions stationed on Italian soil,” he said, “will see that the Allies gather no fruits from the Italian treachery.” BLITZED OFF MAP 'TOWN OF FRASCATI. OCCUPIED BY GERMAN HEADQUARTERS. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) (Received This Day, 12.20 p.m.) LONDON, September 9. An Allied raid against the German headquarters at Frascati, near Rome, was the highlight of yesterday’s air attacks. The town was blitzed off the map, say messages from Algiers. The Rome radio declared that General Kesselring miraculously escaped death when a bomb demolished a house in Frascati. An Italian news agency report received yesterday asserted that there were no military objectives in Frascati.