Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 6 August 1943 — Page 12

EXPECT ‘SAVAGES

Writer Describes a Visit to Capiz a Village on a Mountain Top 3000 Feet High, Immediately After Americans Captured It.

By RICHARD MOWRER Copyright, 1943, by The BD dlenoociis Times and The Chicago Daily News, Inc.

ON THE 7TH ARMY FRONT, Capizzi, Sicily, Aug. 6.—} Capizzi is a Sicilian village perched on'the top of a mountain §

crest, 3000 feet high. The houses are built in layers against | the slope of the hill. They are of stone and even the smallest, |

poorest, shabbiest house has a little balcony with pots of |

geraniums and herbs on it.

They were still rounding A eoouse Lorraine had become

up prisoners when we got tO|part of the Reich. An officer of Capizzi. The ‘American 7th army the Goumiers asked them if they had taken the town. They had|would like to join his force and fight just - finished watering their horses|the Germans and they said they near the main square and were would like nothing better. preparing to move forward. The townspeaple here were curious Shortly after we arrived one of but on the. silent side compared to the Sicilian women we talked to|other places we had been. We asked told us: “We were awaiting you. a man if we could buy eggs. He We didn’t expect those savages.” *|took us down the street and entered The Mo ns were in flappy,|a house. A woman came out. We ig French Moroccan | asked her if we could buy eggs. unifofms with va-| . She went in. and came out again rious natives odds|with two eggs. and ends at-| “How much do we owe you?” we tached. Som e|asked. were turbaned;| “What you like” she said. others wore| We couldn't find out the price of French helmets. |the eggs so we gave the woman five dark skins, |lire (five cents). hooked noses, uesti sharp - black eyes Caplan) © ning and bad teeth| The people of Capizzi began to made them _look|question us. Now that the GerMr. Mowrer evil and danger-|mans were gone and now that Caous. In contrast to their own(Pizzi was in the allied zone what shabby looks, the Moor’s horses were| Was going to happen-to the money. resplendant with their picturesque,| We explained that $1 equals 100 high-backed saddles and well-oiled |lire. ‘American rifles and Tommy guns.| The people had heard that we

were letting captured Sicilians go

Two Join:the French home.

Goumiers were escorting a score| “I have two sons in the Italian of Italian prisoners to a waitingjarmy. Does this mean they will be

truck. The Italians did not need|allowed to come home?” The egg].

an escort though, they willingly|woman asked us. clambered irito the truck and stood| “We said, yes, that’s right. there awaiting developments. We| The egg woman reappeared with spotted a couple of Germans and|more eggs and we asked if she discovered that they were Slovenes |would hard boil them for us. Someand spoke very poor German, with|body in a nearby house had water difficulty. They had been incorpo-|boiling so the egg woman dispatched rated into the German army last|a little old man with the eggs. December. They were simple, peasant. types and seemed rather be- No Elpotricity wildered. The people had heard about MusAnother German showed up—this|solini being out. Not by radio, the one a real one, from Saxony. His “electricity isn’t working so we have story was simply that he had gotten|Do radio here,” the people said. captured with the other go “Ger-| “But we heard all right. mans.” And one of the men made a mo-

and pressed them into the German|

Local residents were standing tion' with his hand that means}

around watching the loading of the|scram, and everybody laughed. prisoners. They were all menfolk| The usual villager with relatives or children. The women were in-|in America pushed forward. We doors out of sight, except for a few|had been wondering when one of old ones. those would show up. He said he had a nd t i They Buy Some Eggs d cousin and two uncles in

A French officer told us how he|the sta,

had incorporated ‘two men from the{ The woman came out with our}:

German army into his detachment.|eggs all hard boiled and hot and we The two Germans had surrendered | put them in a helmet.

and the officer was amazed to dis-| “What do we owe you?” we asked.

cover that both were compatriots of| “What you like,” she said. his from Lorraine. The two “Ger- Soret —— te ee——

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