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Three weeks ago Italy asked the U. S. to close its consulates at Naples and at Palermo, Sicily. Official reason: both places might be bombed, and U. S. consuls hurt. One suggested reason: Fascists did not want the U. S. to know too much about those strategic industrial and military centres...
Last week Secretary Hull informed the Italian Government that its request would be complied with. At the same time he requested that two Italian consular offices in the U. S. be closed. The two-far more important to Italy than Naples and Palermo were to the U. S.: Detroit (with jurisdiction over an Italian-American poplation of 98,048), Newark, N. J. (jurisdiction over 279,095). This retaliation called attention to the fact that Italy maintains 48 consular offices in continental U. S., to Britain's 24, Germany's 18. Said Newark's Vice-Consul Giulio Pascucci...
...abandoned airdrome near Tobruch, 70 miles farther to the west. Free French troops were reported in control of sections of the Bardia-Tobruch road. Day & night the R. A. F. had slugged bases in both Italy and Libya, striking at Gazala, Derna, Tobruch, Tripoli, the ports of Taranto, Palermo and Naples...
ROME--Waves of British bombers last night attacked the great Italian port of Naples and the port of Palermo, Sicily, the Italian war communique today revealed...
ATHENS (Wednesday)--The official Greek spokesman early today intimated the reorganized Italian forces, in a strong counter-assault along the Albanian coast, have re-captured the port of Palermo from, Greek Troops who took it five days...