Show Radio Berlin Broadcasts Premier Ex-Premier Blames King for Plot To Upset Fascism LONDON Sept 18 UP UP-A UP A voice as that of ousted Italian premier Benito Mussolini declared over Radio Berlin Saturday Saturday Saturday Satur Satur- day that King ICing Victor Emmanuel was responsible for the coup against fascism in Italy and and that a new national social state would be formed to replace the monarch which has lost its reason to exist Mussolini's speech was an appeal appeal ap ap- peal for Italians and Italy's armed strength to fight on with Germany and Japan ag against the allies and to rally under the new fascist republican regime whish Hitler is trying to set up with Mussolini at its head in Italy The voice which sounded old and tired vigorously attacked the house of Savoy and gave some of the details of Mussolini's overthrow overthrow overthrow over over- throw and arrest and his release by German parachute troops from the mountainous s Gran Sasso sector sector sec see tor northeast of Rome without firing a shot Tells of Seizure Mussolini had been seized as s he left an angry interview with the king placed place in a Red Cross ambulance ambulance ambulance lance taken to a police barracks and thence to island of off Naples and La Maddalena island Island off Sardinia before returned to the Grand Sasso where Hitler rescued rescued res res- cu cued d him There was some soine dispute among listeners listeners' in hi allied countries ov over r whether the speaker was MussolIni Mussolini Mussolini Musso Musso- i lini but most opinion was as that thai I it was the voice of the former dic die In the London listening post of the United Press some listeners listeners lis us- who had heard Mussolini frequently thought that it was was not his voice He spoke quietly without without without with with- out emphasis and failed to employ the usual flourishes However others who had heard him believed it was Mussolini speaking The United States foreign broadcast intelligence service monItors monitors monitors mon mon- in Washington said they believed believed be be- it was Mussolini as did listeners at the Columbia Broadcasting Broadcasting Broadcasting Broad Broad- casting system The IThe monarchy has fallen in abeyance Mussolini said It is absurd that the monarchy which failed of its duty could continue to exist He charged that the king was responsible for the plot against him with th the complicity of the present premier Marshal Pietro Badoglio and some generals Raps naps Umberto The speaker said bitterly that Crown Prin Prince e Umberto who was commander in chief in the southern sector never never had appeared on the battlefield The speaker said in his 16 mm ute speech that Italy's position had been jeen compromised by Badoglio and the he king whom he denounced bit bit- terly But he declared Italy Germany and Japan would never sur sur- render He called on all aU Italians I to o fight on beside Germany and andI I Japan t Our airn Im 1 is m Q r recapture what at atis is s f lost t tog t Germany and Japan to reo our armed forces and the militia and to eliminate elim- elim mate nate traitors he said in reference to o his proposed new national Socialist Socialist Socialist So So- regime People of Italy I call you again to o work and fight Annihilate the plutocracies les Form your battalions Rise again young fascists Fliers fly Fliers fly again Our courage and faith will give back to Italy its place in the world Long live Italy Long live ive the fascist Republican Party |