Evening star., 1943-07-31
Reich Orders Civilians
Home;;. London Expects
Week-E Emergency
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
All German civilians living In
Italy were advised by their con-
suls to leave today, and tension
Increased in London as Prime
Minister Churchill ordered Brit
ish cabinet members and heads
Of the fighting services to stand
by" for a possible weekend
emergency.
Some quarters believed new Al
lied invasion blow was imminent.
ITALY may be out of the war
tomorrow said the London Daily
Mirror.
The Yugoslav government -in-exile
| announced in London that the 5th
and 9th Brigades of Slovene irregu-
lars-who live and have been fight
ing inside Italian territory-had
broken through Axis lines and
reached the Udine region of North
east Italy.
German troops guarding the
Trieste gateway to Northern Italy
were previously reported to have
taken strong positions at Udine.
Italians Disarmed in Greece.
Developments in the Italian crisis
over peace or war broke with light
ming rapidity:
l. A Reuters British news agency
dispatch said "it has just been
learned that German troops have
begun to disarm Italian troops in
the neighborhood of Larissa In
Greece" Larissa is about 10 miles
southwest of Salonika.
2. Swiss-Italian frontier reports
said the commander of the Italian
5th Army had issued a warning of
a possible Allied invasion of Tus-
cany, Umbria and Latiu Provinces
In North-Centr Italy.
3. DNB, the German news agency,
said rioters in Milan, birthplace OF
Mussolinis outlawed Fascist party,
were firing on German and Italian
troops. The German travel bureau
in Milan was closed.
4. A Cairo broadcast reported that
Axis troops in Greece fired on Greek
patriots protesting against a Ger
man order assigning Bulgarian
troops to Greek garrison points. Nu-
merous patriots were killed and
wounded.
S. The Berlin radio said German
occupation troops had been removed
from many Greek cities because they
were needed elsewhere due to mill
tary necessity" and mounting out
breaks by Greek guerrillas.
Badoglio Urges Patience.
6. In Italy, Premier Marshal Pie
tro Badoglio urged the peace CLAM
oring Italian people to be patient,
declaring in broadcast:
ITALY cannot get out of the war
honestly and safely without the ex-
ercise OF great wisdom and caution.
This requires time"
7. Dispatches from Switzerland
reported that Nazi-occupied France,
caught up in the spreading fever OF
revolt, was rumbling with serious
dissension. The Zurich newspaper
, Weltwoche said Frances secret un-
derground army numbered at least
250,000 men "obsessed with a burn
ing hatred of the occupying forces"
8. From Berlin a Spanish corre-
spondent said German authorities
were we'll aware that "the process
begun by Mussolini Is not finished"
The United States. Great Britain
and Soviet Russia are acting in close
harmony in dealing with the Italian
situation, and it can be presumed
that any armistice terms laid down
for italy would carry the approval
of all three powers.
Russia, Britain and the United
States all were reported to have in
structed their representatives in
neutral countries of Europe and In
Argentina to notify the govern
ments they would consider harbor-
ing Mussolini or any other Axis
leaders an infringement of United
Nations war principles.
Other Allied governments were
also being kept informed of develop