Mediterranean Algiers Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 2, 1943, Algiers, Algiers                                Page 4 most of Ruhr ruined German prisoner says the stars and stripes daily China cuts Vichy ties monday Angust 2, 1943 spare parts Washer by soft Jack Foisiy stars Ana stripes staff writer North cntran<5?r?r? Quot Good better than the italians �?�>9 Fly icily juy  in grinned and we add thit quoth in new i Lau Hwy and a a said we treated enl area a a a them belter than the russians do of Linkh Len we 501&Quot? St he it contempt for his allies the <9 Nereant is a has been italians was tremendous. He re �ndc�2ta.hy, �?o3s feared 10 a him a a up is Quot Job loin aused by the bombings How they had looted the German this 21-year-old motorcyclist j Sun ply dumps 40 Kilometres East Soldier was Home on leave just a i 3011 Stefano. The current Amer chunking seizes French Railroad Mon h ago. He had been in Sicily ten Days when ordered along with other Headquarters men of a motorized battalion to counterattack tile american positions on a Ridge. Eighteen men led by a sergeant major went up the Hill. Not Over i Lait of them made the top and Aux get who did were in turn counterattacked by the yanks tile lighting was at such close quarters that they were tossing hand grenades at each other from either mde of the Crest. Finally Only two germans were left. They surrendered this prisoner a clean Cul youth. Is one of a very few German who have be n captured in recent fighting in this sector. Most of the too it appear to be conscripted poles convalescent and Rem rants of other battered German divisions these Type of prisoners usually talk freely with the obvious purpose of Quot get ing even Edh their nazi oppressors. By this von he let us Call he Hans a spoke without malice and without Hurliness he was a German without a me a nazi. And he had a souse of humor to the question i How can americans fight a he answered. Ican objective in this sector. How would you like them for  he Jashed Quot we give them to  other prisoners had indicated i Flint there is no love lost Between the sicilians and the germans. One reported riots Between civilians and soldiers in Messina. Hans said that while lie was Home there had been a raid and one plane in crashing hit an anti aircraft position and killed tit men. His outfit had been stationed in France but were on the move when he was due to return from leave. He caught up with them at Naples moving with them in t i licks to Reggio Calabria because i he i abroad had been shot up by american pm an a. They came across to Messina in motor launches f often under fire from More Amer Hun going aug. I a the chinese government today announced Severance of diplomatic relations with Vichy France on grounds that the Petain regime had committed a Quot series of acts unfriendly to  the chunking government immediately took control of the part of Hie French owned Yunnan into China railway in chinese territory and cancelled All special French concessions in China. Tile drastic action followed Vichy is increasing unfriendliness to the chinese government in dealings with Tokyo. Chunking said French nationals resident in China would be protected in compliance with International Law. Smuts gets majority ican planes. Quot they Are pilots Quot he out the terribly emirate. Vol a said. Quot they can pick a suede motor cyclist going Road Nee Dily and kill  and As dual with German infantrymen the gig about Quot automatic american artillery Quot was not a bit funny to him. Quot we shoot once and you answer ten  Italy warned continued from Page i Ces hinted that the Bado Gio governed was shaky. A Swiss source declared that the italian troop in Milan mutinied when ordered to fire on vast crowds Demotis rating for peace. Unconfirmed retorts claimed that a general strike was under Way in Milan largest and most important of italian Industrial i ies and workers and soldiers councils have been formed. The government was said to have been formed. The government was said to have militarized the staffs of All railways and newspapers and the Telegraph and radio systems i from Madrid came even More sensational rumours. The germans i were said to be fighting italian troops in Northern Italy As the Washington. Aug. I nearly con tiered Sicily is already receiving loud and medical supplies from tile Allie d stockpile in North Africa. President Roosevelt told his week end press conference Here. Sugar flour and the italian favorite. Push Are among tile supplies being sent Sicily a civilians. The president said. Reuters quotes Quot state department sources As saving that Sicily is to be the first Axis territory to receive formal lend lease a d from America according to this unconfirmed report., the order providing this now awaits the presidents signature nazis sought to occupy the is j ii i in Peninsula on tile Adriatic coast where a Large part of the italian Fleet is believed sheltered the i Peninsula is strategically vital since it dominates the Adriatic and controls communications with Germany and the Balkans. The Balkans a traveler reaching a Neutral country reported Are Quot like a  a Vichy broadcast said that German garrisons were taking Over previously italian controlled regions in Yugoslavia. Where Field marshal Erwin i Rommel is now reported stationed Yugoslavia patriots were declared til have broken through the Axis lines in the Udine Section Northwest of Trieste Italy and to have recruited slovenes living there for service. In the lace of both Allied and German pressure and of Domestic demands for peace the Sadoglio government continued to appeals apparently fruitlessly a for older and Calm. The theme of several i Rome broadcasts was that while j Italy had got rid of fascism it 1 j could not get out of the War Hon j orally Quot except by extra Ordina i v j i Energy and  Stockholm repeat. My a Rumor earlier heard in Berlin said that j King Victor Emmanuel might a a dictate in favor of Crown Prine i Umberto and that marshal Bado i to might step aside in favor of marshal Rodolfo Graziani Best know n for his exploits i n tile ethiopian War. In Washington president Roosevelt told the press that the United nations were willing to accept surrender from any italian government not definitely a fascist. Pretoria aug. I Gen Jan. J Smuts pro War government re a Rived a smashing vote of approval in the South african elections by i gaining a majority of 67 seats in last week s elections Complete return i showed j parties supporting the premiers i policies won la seats in  lament against 4.7 seats for the opposition National party trebling tile majority held during the hut Parha-1 Merit. A South Africa has been the tar get of a lower it German pro it a Gat Ida efforts awned at persuading the electorate to reject the Smuts government. The Victory was interpreted in Allied capitals throughout the world As one of the a most significant United nations victories Over the  Smuts is generally regarded a is one of the Foremost proponents of an International body to preserve peace after the War he was a Strong supporter of president Wood Row Wilson during the peace conference in 1919 a stars and stripes photo by coh. Cyrel Hopp Van ordnance unit has assembled i rom land junk Itiat every i Africa a. Dreamed near Algiers tub spare wets a and i in North Jav a of a work with  u a an a French version old gig of a find no attempt made to repair Naples Able washing machine. 1 creator of tile machine is t 4 Jennings Tucker Olio says his inspiration came one night when he j was scrubbing o othes with a i i Brush a time worn method that j produces aching backs and medi Jocrce results. I suiting action to the ideas to Tucker. Cullowhee. N.  a welder before he came into the army scoured the Quot Boneyard Quot for parts j he used an old gasoline Barre for the body welding scraps of Angle j Iron tor legs. From a shattered jeep he took j a Simi air compressor a slightly i i warped Flywheel was fastened to j the motor he connected the Fly wheel to a tin agitator inside the oilers it Are  g were worked in until the machine was read for the test run. On the sergeant i clothes. Tile French women of till neighbourhood who used to Dei Ive a handsome Revenue from doing the company s laundry can testily that the machine is a Success. Sgt. Tucker has named hit brainchild Quot frivolous Sal Quot but the Nile of grease stained c  it turns out every Day indicates Little frivolity. A lot of the credit sgt. Tucker says should go to a Felon welder. T-4 Kas it or Gesalman of Greensburg pa., who helped him assemble the machine. The Soldier inventor is not resting on ins washing machine laurels. He s Busy now making an int Cream Freezer out of spare parts. Japs harassed Over Pacific Washington aug. In Allied Pacific Headquarters today reported a weekend of harassing air attacks on japanese positions throughout the Southwest Pacific in the besieged japanese at Mun i chiding a dive bombing assault a on new Georgia Island. American troops Are still about a mile outside of Munda. Usa of Headquarters in China carried out operations in sup sort of Southwest Pacific operations while in the far North. American heavy bombers pummelled the Jap he Island of Kiska in the aleutians. Recent photographs of the railway marshalling Yards at Nap is which sustained one of the heaviest bombardment us of he War on july la reveal that no attempt has been made to repair tile bomb damage or put the Yards in o operation again despite the fact that they lie on tile direct route for traffic to Southern Italy and Sicily. There is no sign of life in the Yards no trains moving no men at work. The place is dead and deserted. The fact that the Yard. A fear to have been written Oft by the italians can be explained in one of two ways. Either Italy lies de 1 ended to use the longer Inland route through Foggia Case transportation can around Naples or flu who Are in charge of Maul Una Rig rail facilities have deliberately refused to repair the Yards in an Effort to hamper the movement of men and supplies to the besieged Axis garrisons in soil v. Editor wins his bars hard Way p-40 s Down a continued from Page i Quantico  Man who resigned a Navy commission As a lieutenant commander because he Quot  run a Des Rover which is what a lieutenant commander is supposed to d it Quot has won his Marine commission the hard Way Paul Smith former editor and general manager of the sin Francisco chronicle. La i a ask to in the Navy Public relations of i fee in Washington to enlist in the i marines As a Buck private last i Lear he was appointed an offi in which jeer Cand Date and received a �c-1 be Shu fled j Ond lieutenant s commission after italians six months of study and training at the Marine base Here j War prisoners shot in escape attempt Beds for soldiers in Francisco servicemen in the City on week ends were having a hard time finding rooms so contractor Robert Mccarthy decided he would do something j Olsmit it. He started building an i he tied dormitory in the morning and finished tile Job by night Omaha attempting to escape from an internment renter at Camp Clark. Mo., an italian Pris j Oner of War was wounded fatally j by a guard who shot the prisoner As he tried to break out of the t stockade. Tile guard was declared j 1 to have been following orders and was exonerated of Anc blame. 7th service command officers said forts flew a round trip of  Miles and covered tile Airfield Whit a series of bomb hits. Returning from the raid. 2nd la few 8. Franck of Scotland neck. N. C., said the hangars and Barracks were blazing a mile High when we left the Airfield won t in of much use to them for a Long time. A i throughout the weekend fighter bombers and medium bombers attacked enemy positions and installations in the Northeast Corner of Sicily. Tile port of Milazzo on the North coast took another rounding As Saaf fighter bombers Sank a 500 ton merchant vessel in the Harbor. Maltas effective striking Force again demonstrated its flexibility when Beau fighters swept along the Cost of Greece on the evening of july 30 and shot Down two Hein Kel float planes bombed a Supply ship so rated two seaplane bases and riddled a number of motor boats with Cannon fire. Ltd Abner t a Granny a inf  me alone. War Tiff so Jet Daisy May Quot Hoh a 11 f no our we it is to one. Fault by Al Capp . Pilots receive swedish Welcome Stockholm a the Crew of a flying fortress which mad a forced Landing after tile american raid on trondheim submarine Bose in Norway is enjoying swedish hospitality according to reports Here. The men live in a comp. But barbed w ire Doest mean a fling. They come and Elt i As they please and spend much line shopping in nearby Falun Law cutting prices Washington it is Tiow Legal to  tile kid next door As much As you please for cutting Lawn the office of Price administration said. The opa has abolished Law cutting Price control. Most citizens Hadnot even heard about it