Rumours of a Military Nature Intended to Mystify and Mislead the Enemy. Note by the Secretary

B (Contd.) -22. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. The A.A. ammunition supplies of Northern Italy were all sent to Sicily because the Germans insisted on tremendous ground defence for their aircraft. The walls of the House of Loretto are sweating blood. A vision of St. Januarius appeared to six members of the crew of a tanker bound for Benghazi warning them not to sail. The crew mutinied and the ship, which sailed with a replacement crew, was lost with all hands. 25 French merchant seamen, sentenced to death for desertion by the Toulon Maritime Tribunal, have had their sentences commuted to ferrying boats carrying Italian troops to N.