ITALY’S VERSION

Wairarapa Times-Age, 11 September 1943, Page 4

ITALY’S VERSION

ROME CITY NOT TO BE OCCUPIED MINISTERS TO REMAIN AT POSTS. AND CARRY OUT NORMAL DUTIES (By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright) (Received This Day, 11.0 a.m.) LONDON, September 10. The Stefani News Agency announces that by agreement German trocps will not occupy Rome itself, but the Germans have taken over the Rome radio. German troops will stop at the limit of the open city of Rome. The Germans, however, will occupy the German Embassy and the Telephone Exchange. General Di Bergola has been nominated as commander of the military garrison of Rome. Ministers will be allowed to remain at their Ministries and to carry out their normal duties. The Berlin radio, giving a list of towns occupied by the Germans, in addition to those quoted in a communique, says Durazzo and El Basan (in Albania) have been taken and adds that all detachments in Palmi, Reggio, Modena and Mantua were disarmed after shfjjt fighting. All frontier crossings from Southern France to the Carinthia and, Sie valleys of the Brenner Road, Alpine detachments tried to offer resistance, have been cleared up, quietness reigning throughout Northern Italy.