HUGE SHADOW

Wairarapa Times-Age, 16 September 1943, Page 4

HUGE SHADOW

OVER NORTHERN ITALY GERMANS KILLING & PLUNDERING MEN SEIZED & SENT AWAY IN CLOSED TRUCKS. (By Telegraph—Press Asso nation.) (Received This Day, 10.45 a.m.) LONDON, September 15. The German occupation of Northern Italy hangs like a huge shadow over the people, declares Mr Aldo Forte, British United Press correspondent in Switzerland, who has just returned from a visit to Italy. Mr Forte, with a guide, cut a wire fence on the Swiss frontier and entered Italy in darkness disguised as .a mountaineer. They reached Como after daylight and found the city more or less normal, although hatred of the Germans smouldered under the surface. Everyone wanted to know when the Allies would be arriving. A man who had just arrived from Milan- said the city had been a hell after the Germans entered. He added: “The Germans are killing and plundering. I saw soldiers in the streets stripping men and women of their jewellery, watches and money. German youths were patrolling outside Milan, arresting men between the ages of 18 and 50, taking them to the Central Railway Station, which was heavily guarded, and shipping them to God knows where in closed trucks.”