Evening star., 1943-07-28
GraveSituation
Reported Amid
Rioting in Milan
Mobs Are Declared
Shouting for Peace;
Workers Leuve Jobs
BY he Associated Press.

BY he Associated Press.
BERN, Switzerland, July 28.-
Unconf1rmed reports received at
the Italian frontier today said
an insurrection among the peo-
pie, verging on revolution, had
broken out at Milan.
Mobs swept through the streets.
despite a state of siege proclaimed
by the military authorities. shouting
Liberty and I'VE want peace" the
reports said
Shots were fired.
The situation was described as ex-
tremely grave.
All workers were reported to have
left their jobs.
Earlier the Corriere Della Sera of
Milan had reported islands of Fas-
cist resistance were holding out
against Italian troops at Milan and
indicated that uncertainty over the
new government course between
peace and war was producing rest
lessness among the people.
Rome Radio Warns of Rumors.
The Rome radio, in frequent in
terruptions of musical programs,
warned the people against "sensa
tional' rumors circulated by ire
sponsible persons.
Tullio Giordana, new director of
the Gazzetta Gel Popolo at Turin.
was quoted in dispatches as urging
patience on the people advising them
that it was not possible to make
peace in two days.
II Corriere Della Sera reported
that in Morgagni street, Milan Fas-
cicts battled three hours during the
night. firing from the windows and
roof of a building The structure
was said now to be encircled by
troops but all the Fascists had not
yet been captured.
Other small centers OF resistance
in various parts Of the city by "ele-
ments refusing to comply with the
new order" were reported by the
Italian paper.
Armistice Reports Unconfirmed.
Commenting on an "efferveScent
atmosphere" the paper added that
following the demonstrations of ma
tional enthusiasm at the fall OF
Fascism "a certain unrest has risen
among the people
The newspaper presented this ac-
count OF happenings:
Outbreaks in the center of Milan
we're limited and the gravest re-
sistance occurred in the suburbs
where the Fascists barricaded them
selves in buildings and fired on
crowds of civilians as we'll as soldiers.
The fight to reduce these nests was
long. difficult and bloody
Workers generally responded to
the request of the military COM
mander of Milan, Gen. Canale, to
return to their work. but in some
quarters there was hesitation and
resistance
In some factories of Milan work.
ers who presented themselves in the
morning failed to show up in the
afternoon. Troops had to intervene
at certain quarters to prevent
gatherings and demonstrations
which resulted.
Outbreak at Prison.
Another outbreak occurred in the
great Milan prison of Cellulare
where one internee was killed and
many were wounded in an attempt
I'd prison break.
The inmates continued to mutiny
and burned part of the prison.
Bomb blasted Naples was the
scene of fights in which several we're
killed and wounded as the people
celebrated the fall of Fascism.
There were demonstrations also
1t Bari, Taranto and other southern
cities. and at Trieste and Venice in
the north. and Turin was the scene
of continuous demonstrations.
No incidents had yet been reported
from the Crotian frontier.
Swiss Telegraph Agency reports
from the Italian frontier insisted
that the new italian regime was
discussing conditions of an armi-
stice' with Allied representatives in
Vatican City, but they were abso-
lutely without confirmation.
(The NBC correspondent in
Bern, in broadcast, said the
Rome radio had declared reports
of Italian peace overtures were
"unfounded," and had denied
that British and American rep
resentatives in Vatican City had
been instrumental in bringing
about contact for peace nego-
tiations.
c'So far, official Rome has
stood pat on the principle that
fighting continues" said the NBC
broadcast.
(The italian communique to-
day continued to emphasize the
exclusive role of German aircraft
in attacking Allied obiectives, de-
claring Nazi planes sank a cor
vette and tanker and set fire to
six transports at Augusta and
Syracuse in Sicily. italian air
craft limited themselves to fight
ing OF Allied air attacks, the
communique indicated.
(The bulletin reported an at
tack by an italian submarine on
an Allied aircraft carrier in the
Atlantic, however. and said two
direct hits were scored)
German garrison troops in Milan,
(see ITALY, Page A-2J