NAZI TERRORISM

Wairarapa Times-Age, 23 November 1943, Page 4

NAZI TERRORISM

IN OCCUPIED ITALY RESISTANCE INCREASING, KING CALLS ON TROOPS TO WAGE BATTLE. (By Telegraph—'Press Association—Copyright) (Received This Day, 10.50 a.m.) LONDON, November 22. A stale of siege has been proclaimed in Florence, where street fighting has been raging near the station,-..between Italian partisans and German troops, according to frontier reports published in the Swiss newspaper “La Suisse.” A state of siege is also reported to have been proclaimed in the province of Como. A “Daily Express” correspondent at Chiasso reports that sabotage and aggression against the Germans continue unabated throughout North Italy. Martial lav/ in Milan, which the Germans proposed to lift yesterday, is continuing, because two German sentries were killed on the night of November 18. Socialist elements are active in Milan, systematically tearing down German or Fascist proclamations. Because five of a party of Germans and Fascists were ambushed and killed in Reggio on the night of November 18, the Germans, imposed a curfew and arrested hostages. The Germans also took hostage 200 Italians as a result of the killing of 40 Fascists near Pisino. A new proclamation by King Victor Emmanuel to Italian troops in Germanoccupied Italy, calling on them to fight the Germans, was broadcast by the Cairo radio. “The enemy is attempting by all means, ranging from promises to extreme brutality, to prevent you doing your honourable duty for your country,” the proclamation states. “I call on you to wage battle against the enemy with all the means at your disposal.” '