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Current Events July 27, 1943;

Benito Mussolini tried to save his own
job by getting King Victor Emmanuel to abdicate but the plan
back-fired, Algiers radio reported Monday.

Italians poured into the streets of| Italy's biggest cities Sunday night and j
all day Monday with cries for peace and shouts of joy and spontaneous
parades celebrating the downfall of Mussolini, who is reported held under
a strong guard at his villa near Rome.

Marshal Badoglio and a new cabinet ruled turbulent Italy Monday night under
a martial law imposed to prevent civil war between Joyous liberals
who want to make peace immediately with the allies and discredited
fascists left leaderless by the mysterious and sudden exit of Benito
Mussolini and his ministers, Stockholm and Bern dispatches
reported the broken Mussolini had been arrested while trying to flee
to German sanctuary from the nation he brought to the brink of disaster
after 21 years of dictatorship.

Axis airmen have bombed thousands of churches, monasteries
ecclesiastical buildings and in other Great Britain, France, Poland, Norway,
Greece and other united nations, the office of war information said Monday.

Driving ahead under the support of a heavy bombardment from sea and air
American troops pushed their front line 500 yards closer to the core of
Japanese defenses at the strategic Munda airfield Monday, it was announced
Tuesday

                         The Billings Gazette
     BILLINGS, MONTANA, TUESDAY MORNING, JULY 27, 1943

Martial Law Declared as
Italians Threaten Revolt
Mussolini Lost Out Whe
He Tried to Get King
Of Italy to Abdicate
London, July 26.—(U.P)—
Benito Mussolini tried to save his own
job by getting King Victor Emmanuel to abdicate but the plan
back-fired, Algiers radio reported Monday.
The broadcast, recorded here said that Mussolini submitted a
document to the king by which he would have retired in favor of
Crown Prince Umberto. The king refused, it was said, and Mussolini
himself had to get out

Liberals Want Peace
Now; Report II Duce
Placed Under Arrest
London, July 26.—(AP)—
Marshal Badoglio and a new cabinet ruled turbulent Italy Monday night under
a martial law imposed to prevent civil war between Joyous liberals
who want to make peace immediately with the allies and discredited
fascists left leaderless by the mysterious and sudden exit of Benito
Mussolini and his ministers, Stockholm and Bern dispatches
reported the broken Mussolini had been arrested while trying to flee
to German sanctuary from the nation he brought to the brink of disaster
after 21 years of dictatorship.
Although these reports of Mussolini's whereabouts were not confirmed
in dispatches directly from Italy, there .was no doubt of the attitude
of many Italians. A Milan newspaper reaching the Swiss frontier
said the people staged wild demonstrations upon hearing of
Mussolini's collapse.

Italian Throngs
Cry for Peace
Believe Armistice
To Be Asked Soon
By THOMAS F. HAWKINS
Bern, Switzerland, July 26—(AP)
Italians poured into the streets of| Italy's biggest cities Sunday night and j
all day Monday with cries for peace and shouts of joy and spontaneous
parades celebrating the downfall of Mussolini, who is reported held under
a strong guard at his villa near Rome.
These demonstrations occurred In Rome, Naples, Milan, Bologna.
Turin, Genoa, Como, and other cities. Many of these points had suffered
heavily through allied air attacks.
Stunned German propagandists offered their Berlin-inspired official
attitude that Italy would remain in the war, but allied circles
here were increasingly convinced that it was the beginning of the
end for Italy.

Axis Pilots Do
Heavy Damage
Churches Wrecked by
Enemy Air Bombings
Washington, July 26.—(AP)—
Axis airmen have bombed thousands of churches, monasteries
ecclesiastical buildings and in other Great Britain, France, Poland, Norway,
Greece and other united nations, the office of war information said Monday.
Describing its reports as incomplete, the OWI told of many in
stances of widespread damage to religious edifices by axis bombers
The full story may not be available until the war ends.
Herbert Morrison, British home secretary, has estimated that 13,895
churches, monasteries and other religious buildings in Great Britain
have been damaged or destroyed by axis bombs. The lists include 4,100
churches, 22 of them designed by Christopher Wren.
Available information indicates that France's more famous cathedrals
escaped bomb damage, but churches in several French towns including
Gisors, Les Andelys and Samur, were bombed during the Nazi campaign in France. Destroyed churches included Saint Etienne in Beauvais, described as a famed structure.
Dutch sources report that .five large churches in Rotterdam were destroyed by air attacks and that churches in Vlissingen, Rhenen and Deizig; also were bombed.

Yankees Score
Gain at Munda
Advance 500 Yards
On Big Jap Base
By C. YATES McDANIEL
Allied Headquarters in the Southwest
Pacific, July 27—(/P)—
Driving ahead under the support of a heavy bombardment from sea and air
American troops pushed their front line 500 yards closer to the core of
Japanese defenses at the strategic Munda airfield Monday, it was announced
Tuesday.
It was the first general ground advance reported since the beginning
of the battle for New Georgia island in the central Solomons.
Official reports failed to give any details of what apparently is the
start of the long-heralded drive which should bring American troops
to grips with the enemy in and along the firmly-established and
stubbornly-held perimeter defenses of Munda.

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