The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1943-09-10
ATTEMPT TO TURN
ATTENTION AWAY
FROM BIG DEFEAT
woo FASCISTS AGAIN
Many Words Stream From
Nazi Radio Denounc-
ing The Italians

LONDON, Sept. 9. - Up - MAJ
propagandists turned suddenly ane
viciously against Ita!y's civil ane
military leaders today in an ap
parent effort to divert G m
thought from the grave potenfah
ties of Italian capitulation.
Deposed Italian Fascists, attack
ed a few weeks ago when Musso
lini fell as incompetent, now were
being courted again.
Thousands of words streamee
from the Berlin radio registering
accusations and anger.
King Vittorio Emanuele III, Pre-
mier Marshal Pietro Badoglio
Gen. Mario Roatta, chief of Che
Italian general staff, and certain
political cliques' were charged
variously with treachery, incom-
petence and cowardlce.
These broadcasts, recorded by
The Associated Press, were in
much the same vein that Reichs-
minister Paul Joseph Goebbels'
staff members used six weeks ago,
but then it was to denounce 1.-The
failure of Fascism' after the res
ignation of Mussolini.
That theme now forgotten, the
rev emissions appeared to be a
bid fcr support from Fascist party
members as well as a new emo
tional channel for the Germans
A Transocean dispatch said Ger
man suspicion that treachery was
afoot developed after frontier
meeting of Nazi Foreign Minister
Joachim Won Ribbentrop and 1tal
ian Foreign Minister Raffaele
Guariglia, Badoglio's representa-
tive. four weeks ago.
From the very beginning of the
new regime he (Badoglio) opposed
German offer to send reinforce
ments for assistance of Italian de-
tense at particularly threatened
points of the Italian mainland
Transocean said. He said that
the Italian army insisted on de-
tending the fatherland themselves
ut those danger points.
What actually happened w
that General Roatta sent Italian
reinforcements to northern Italy
instead of to the south.
Italian-German frontier region
we're occupied by the Italians
heavy weapons were emplaced ane
ammunition stocks were built w
and bridges and roads were mined
the dispatch said 1t is in nortf
italy that repeated clashes be
tween Italian and German troops
were reported today fr m the
Swiss frontier.
military incompetence of Ytal
ian leaders had long been observ
ed" said another dispatch, basins
this observation primarily on the
statement that different types O.
food were supplied Italian officers
non-commissioned officers, ane
men.
It criticized too certain Italian
circles who have strong bindings
with plutocratic circles abroad
and certain families of Italian
nobility" with British American
connections.
Expressing sympathy for italian
soldiers and people, the Berlin ra
dio said the fate Of the compro-
missed Italian dynasty is matter
in which Germany is not interest
ed"
THE danger of Italian civil war
now has become acute" il said.
DNB declared Mussolini W S
kidnapped after his visit with the
King, July Is, when the King told
him he was to be replaced b.
Badoglio, this to imply that the
government shakeup itself involved
internal treachery.
Helmut Suendermann, deputy
German press chief, said the Ba-
doglio regime had from its be.
ginning not only aimed at ma
neuvering Italy out of the war but
also at steering the course OF
events in such a way as to stab
German divisions in the back on
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