Evening star., 1940-12-08
Rome
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| of any lack of discipline and COM
prehension of the superior national
necessities" said the official state
ment.
More Food for Germany.
Only last Thursday an agreement
by which Italy undertook to help
| feed Germany was announced here
Italy was to increase her exports Of
fresh and dried vegetables, fruits,
cheeses and wines to meet the needs
of a Germany deficient in those
products
Germany also was to get vegeta-
bles. seed, forage and livestock for
breeding. Promised by the Ger
mans were efforts for a stabilized
market and the improvement of
Italian agriculture generally.
The penalty provided for mine
operators not beginning work within
! prescribed limits, or not developing
their properties adequately will be
cancellation of their concessions
that is, their right to operate.
The text of the announcement
providing penalties for laggard
farmers as Issued through the OFF,
cial news agency, Stefani, follows:
AT the last meeting Of the cabi-
net an outline of provisions was
approved by which violators of the
compulsory storage of agricultural
products, besides being punished by
confiscation of their products and
special penalties provided by the spe-
cial storage laws, will be punished
with arrest up to one year.
The basic Importance of the stor-
age of agricultural products for the
supply of the armed forces and
civilian population requires this
more severe exemplary suppression
of any lack of discipline and COM
prehension of the superior national
necessities"
(Tonight the Rome radio re-
ported that Italy had created
new post of second chief of the
great general staff" but said that
so far as was known it had not
yet been assigned to anyone. In
future it was added, 1.-The gen.
eral staff will also include one
general of the army, one gen.
eral of the air force and one
admiral."D
Party FOrtifies Morale.
While the Greeks continued to
press heavily upon the Italian forces
in Albania, the Fascist party acted
to strengthen morale among both
civilians and soldiers.
Adelchi Serena, the Fascist party
secretary, instructed the provincial
leaders toward the maintenance of
Fascist discipline, relief for the fam
lies of fighters and developing of
the network of party activity
through which Mussolini keeps in
touch with public opinion and keeps
it in line with Fascist policy.
An intensification of propaganda
was ordered, as we'll as Saturday
afternoon instruction for boys and
girls in the Fascist youth detach-
ments. The obligation of every
Fascist to serve the revolution" in
the blackshirt militia was reaffirmed.
To the provincial leaders Serena
gave assurances:
The party's forces are solid and
efficient and around them the whole
Italian people confirms its certainty
in victory"
The high commands regular daily
communique spoke of continuing
Greek pressure on the Fascist left
wing, but said that on the rest OF
the front there were only local at
tacks' by the Greeks.
1t added that Italian counter
attacks have given us possession
again of various positions" but did
not describe those positions.
On the political front, italian dis
patches reported willingness of
Yugoslavia to cooperate with the
German-Italian axis, and some
Fascists expressed great satisfac-
ton. Nothing was said, however,
to indicate that this "co-operation'
would permit Fascist supplies or
troops to cross YugoSlavia to any
sector of the Balkan war front.
The British Broadcasting Corp.
attributed to neutral sources" to-
day report that Gen. Cavallero.
the new Italian chief of state, would
confer shortly with the chief of the
German high command, Gen. Field
Marshal Wilhelm Keitel. This re-
fected belief that Cavallero might
be of mind to collaborate utterly
with the NaZis.
The dispatch of Gen. Bastico to
the Dodecanese recalled that the
British have claimed to have put
those islands-vital in the Italian
war with Greece-substantia in
a sack formed by the British Navy.
The italian action against farm
ers not turning over their produc-
ton for official storage recalled a
recent report by the United States
Department of Agriculture that so
effective was the British blockade
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