Evening star., 1943-09-15
NewMusso|ini Reqime
Will Continue War,
Germans Declare
BY the Associated Press.


NEW YORK, Sept. Is. - Nazi
propagandists today moved to man
ufacture a new regime for Benito
Mussolini-a regime described by
the Office of War Information here
as dedicated to the continuation of
the war alongside Germany and the
punishment Of all Italians who COM
piled with the armistice accepted
by Marshal Pietro Badoglio and
King Victor Emmanuel.
German broadcasts reported to the
Owl by the United States Foreign
Broadcast Intelligence Service as
serted that:
l. Mussolini had issued a series
OF DEGREES re-esta tablishing the Fascist
Party under his supreme direction"
with the label of Republican Fas-
cist Party" and ordering daily and
comradely collaboration to the Ger
man military forces fighting on Ital-
ian soil against the common enemy"
Cabinet Liquidated.
2. Gen. Calvi di Bergolo, puppet
commandant of Italian forces in
Rome, had formally liquidated the
Badoglio cabinet and named COM
missioners-all of them we'll known
in the Fascist regime-to take over
the functions and responsibilities of
the ministries.
The Mussolini DEGREES. said to be
signed by the former premier, were
read over the German radio station,
Zeesen. They were read not by Mus
solini but by Alessandro Pavolini.
former italian propaganda minister.
who was named in one of the de-
crees as temporary secretary" of
the new Fascist Party.
A short time later the Italian
news agency Stefani, now under
German control broadcast a dis
patch containing an ordinance
signed by Di Bergolo naming DR..
Augusta Rosso, former Ambassador
to the United States, as commits
sioner of the foreign ministry, to
replace Raffaele Guariglia, the Ba-
doglio foreign minister.
A Swiss broadcast. also reported
to Owl, said Guariglia had been ar
rested in Rome and that other min
listers of the legal cabinet still In
Rome also were reported under ar
rest.
Posts to Be Resumed.
The MusSolini DEGREES said all for
mer Fascist officials are to resume
their posts; all party organizations
are to be re-formed all Italians
must support German authorities;
the behavior of all Fascists will be
re-eXamlned in relation to their
present behavior; all traitors are to
be punished; the voluntary militia
is to be reformed.
The Stefani broadcast listed these
appointments by Di Bergolo in addi-
ton to that of DR.. Rosso: Presi-
dency of the council of ministers.
DR.. Clan Giacomo Bellazzi; interior.
DR.. Lorenzo Lavia; Italian Africa,
DR.. Enrico Cerulli: administration
OF justice, DR.. Giovanni Novelli:
finances, DR.. Ettore Cambi; national
education, DR.. Giuseppe Guistini;
public works, Engineer Paolo Sal
tlno; agriculture, Prof. Vittorio Ron
chi; communications, Engineer Lui-
gi Velani; industry and commerce,
DR.. ErneSto Santoro; popular cul-
ture, DR.. Armedeo Tosti, foreign
currency and exchange, DR.. Fran
cesco Cemonese; war production,
DR.. Franco Liguori
One Third of Soldiers Lost
One-third of the German soldiers
employed in releasing him fell in
to an abyss and have not been seen
since" the radio reported. How
many are still living is not known
at the present"
Berlin script writer's said hundreds
OF carabinieri were guarding Mus
sollni's prison-a hotsl which could
be reached from the valley only via
a cable railway which could be
crippled easily-and apparently was.
Picking up their story:
After DilOtS and ScolltS bad