Athens, Mar. 5, fifteen hundred Italian soldiers of the First Alpine division' were drowned when the Italian transport Liguria was torpedoed and sunk several months ago, the Government military spokesman today satd Italian Commenting on the statement, delivered to the Bulgarian Minister to Moscow by M. Audrey Y. Vishinsky, Deputy Foreign Commissar, authoritative sources said the Soviet Union's attitude was understandable "but simultaneously it must be understood Germany can not tolerate any restrictions on measures it deems necessary to take to defeat Britain.
"Our policy in south-eastern Europe is based on our will to create a sure permanent peace in south-eastern Europe and secondly our determinafion to prosecute ihe war against Britain and. in the Fuehrer's words to strike Britian where ever we encounter her."—United Press.
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