Mediterranean Algiers Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 6, 1943, Algiers, Algiers                                Vol. I no. 82, Friday a gust 6, 1943 . Army daily newspaper for troops in Algiers area one franc British 8th captures Catania soviet forces smash into Orel reds pursue Allied note pleases beaten foe la ii a anti Fael a in streets 200,000 germans flee in corridor toward Bryansk London aug. 5-�?soviet forces which broke into the German fortress of Ore last night today were locked in heavy Street fighting with a nazi rear guard of 50.-000 men attempting to cover Hie flight of 200,000 nazis Down Hie narrow escape of corridor to Bryansk. A social soviet communique Early today proclaimed the russian Victory the first major summer Triumph Over the wehrmacht and Climax to a three week assault upon the City which Lias been in German hands since the beginning of october. 1941. Eight minutes after the russian announcement Berlin admitted that the City had been evacuated and that German troops had re London. Aug. 5 All italian political parties opposing fascism have sent a joint reply to the Churchill Roosevelt message to j the people of Italy which said that the germans Are seeking to make 1 Italy a Battleground. The text of the reply was All Italy has heard your message. For italians this is no people s War. We have had hic germans imposed on us As allies and _ they Are perhaps More hated in Italy than in any other occupied i ,7 Georgi. M. Hakim country the mass of italians of it tars an it stripes Start whirr All Ages and tendencies is exerting Allied Force head Quad itself to collaborate with  bombs rain Paterno also taken on Naples As Axis weakens Sicily area Naaf unleashes furious attack on Mainland germans italians virtual enemies prisoners assert fall foreshadows final Axis defeat on sicilian shores by sgt. Jack Folsie by tsp. Hilary la. Lyons i stars and stripes staff writer stars and stripes staff writer Allied Force hea1xjuak Italy rumours numerous Cabinet locked in secret meeting with american forces in Sicily. Aug 2 i delayed there ters. Aug. 5--Catania. Hie great ters aug 5�?with a thunderous in re. Esu mated to be Tody j strategic port of Sicily s Eastern Roar that must have carried to to an infantry troops still tight c it ast Fen a 0830 today to Bri Berlin itself the jew Werf ii North Lnu f s on us is a taints triumphant 8th army. Later West african air forces unleashed a a a Quot it a a a May. One of the  the full fury of their attack Over Sicily and the ital Ian Mainland yesterday. Days in Hie epic of Hie United an Allied communique tersely announced that Hie steely veterans of the Western desert and Tunisia were in Possession of Paterno. To air Miles Northwest of of these key j of Ujj ing committed to offensive opera Loos for in the past they have re by it fused to attack in the face of the tto. Withering american artillery fire. Saaf b-17 s returned to the i a a. Attack and gave the submarine a,�miciu1 a l to to r base and docks at Naples a severe my Quot a a Quot i germ a. Ild italians or. Pounding. It was the fourth Day in practical military purposes Are cranial a Row that the strategic port of no in or allies there have been Wren Rhino a Naples had been hit by Allied bullets Between the two forces the w neb iia8 bombers flying unescorted Thellon the ear areas especially when inuits from the Axis tenacious forts encountered a heavy flak the italians were hungry and the grasp pointed up sharply Hie ene Barra a and vigorous enemy fighter germans had a11 the Tood hut the Niyo a fast lessening Powers of rein an Atmos Herp of mount be apposition Over bomb battered a spokesman discounted disunity assistance and foretold his filial de la an atmosphere of mounting Thev fought their was indicating the collapse of resist Leat on sicilian shores. However in  pet to Bado Ebo throw a 30 intercept German Ance to the Allied occupation. Long the i Mal stage of the Cam met in Rome Al Orriiv to it is and i a Ial fighters three of which i the Boche and the Wop pos have pain might run. The hand writ they destroyed As they moved in never gotten along he said even a or of Allied Victory was boldly Over their target j the fascist b a shirt militia now traced for the world to see. To a a it scr a in the regular army uni-1 official communiques gave no in in. Florin Are no better lighters. Details of the fall of either Point Aid Ere. Fine 7 beyond declaring that the defend the what the italian radio called important  the announcement shed no Light on the reason returning Iron the for the meeting but it was Fol having flown his last Mission isl at a us innit Lowed by radio attacks on the it. Kenneth w slacker of new i German in Siv. A United nations. A Kensington. Pa., said Quot the raid what the Are a  ers had it it a new Fht in ing touch to Naples. In heavy flak the bombing was excellent. It was a Good Mission to pass tired to previously prepared More favourable  but retorts from the front and Moscow described the German withdrawal As a Pell Mell Retreat harassed by the soviet air Force machine gunners and artillery. German dead and wounded and heavy equipment littered the streets of the City and the wooded. Rolling country of the Orel salient. Moscow added that soviet forces around Orel were closing in on the Escaip a corridor in an Effort to Pinch off As Many of the Retreat with Italy smoke screened from the rest of the world by censorship. Outside observers had a Field Day guessing Why the meeting was called. Some thought the Cabinet off my half Century  would be asked to endorse mar with the ground fighting in is Shal Sadoglio s demand for con idly reach in its climatic phase turning the War against the Al bombers went All out in their a i -1 lies. Others believed that the mar tack on main and communications i Shal might hand in his Resigna centers in an Effort to prevent the Mon. Which Italy s left and Liberal reinforcement of the hard pressed parties have been consistently de Axis forces on the Island. Mantling i the railway Junction of Catan of one thing there was Little Zaro on the East coast of Hie ital today should have put the finish Ili a y v. Quot streets before yielding Catania Quot a fanaticism shown in Tunisia the spite of Jerries Are fighting bitterly and for three weeks the 8th army has is Excel eve or i dict in Al he. Besieged the great port whose they Are dug in on a far More Dif i. A a. ,., i Chilt terrain for offensive opera Dock a a d plam Laius give the Al. 1 lies a vital base not Only tor fur of continued on Page 4 tiring the Campaign of Sicily j but for carrying sea and air warfare against Hie italian Mainland. To Hie Axis the fall of the City Means the loss of a principal Mediterranean bulwark attacked on doubt Hie Sadoglio government Man toe was severely continued on Page 4i i 1continued on Page it fierce fight waged for no Many a land Murieta fall imminent allies Circle key Jap Ai drome it was a flanking not a frontal attack which brought Catania and Paterno into our grasp. South of Catania elements of the 8th fought a dogged holding action against impregnable German positions. Some 20 air Miles Northwest of Catania toward the Center of the Battle line stretching across the islands longest and Allied Southwest Pacific narrowest Corner the allies struck Headquarters aug. 5�?the the blows which Shook the enemy fall of Munda was imminent to by a staff writer with american forces in Central Sicily aug. 2�? a de ing nazis As possible. Spearhead j played four Miles separate the ing Hie assault on the fleeing Mountain towns of Cerapio and nazis were flying columns of cos Troina. Today that Gap was no sack horsemen Tommy gunners in shells. The vegetation Day As Allied ground forces broke into the inner defences and were less than a Quarter of a mile already from the key japanese base on seared by the summer Sun. Is now new Georgia Island a late com jeeps and Small trucks and a Chiu gunners on motorcycles. The red air Force was also doing ifs Best to make the corridor of escape to Bryansk As costly As splotches with Black turnover. There Are innumerable gullies hidden from tile observer and these in unique announced. Japanese efforts to make a last Man s land. J Are the Only Protection for the Al stand appeared to be tailing from the towers of both towns. Advancing doughboy. It is scant since the Ai drome was nearly in continued on Page if Sicily gets Medicine Allied Force Headquarters aug. 5�?fourteen jeep loads of urgently needed medical Avex us. J supplies have been ferried Over to possible. Tile retreating germans Day was greeted with artillery and it in it ground which tile map Calls although they Are almost within i Cut. Tank Landina Shin and were under bombing and strafing mortar fire. Sometimes it seemed a a a a a Quot �?1 a a h attacks despite the Luftwaffe s As if both the German and Amer continued on pane 4, can shells were striking the same to set a few men up to rage 9j area. So bitter was the struggle so yesterday but German counteract of Rifle fire because of the Chok rapidly did the Points of Vantage a cos last drove them Back. Ing Jungle which limits visibility Rome bombing raid Cost three planes keen eyed observers searched the Rover indeed. Wrinkled Brown Valley for Trespas-1 Valley itself rises to be Sera. Any living tiling or jeep come a Ridge Midway Between the 7liea a . On that ventured into the Valley to towns of Certani and Troina. This on k11 Miles across the Channel. Circled and the Small escape corridor to the sea was covered by Bendova Island. Mount Timpon Ivole is the key to shouting distance of the vital in domination. The yanks Are being distributed for Hie use i were Able Emy ail installations Allied troops of the a Lllan u was o the Crest Are unable to make effective use announced today change hands. Today neither Side is on i of Nile fire because of the Chok i manned by italian speaking the to a few feet. The attackers must Drivers a jeep caravan has de despite the thunderous onslaught Crest 1 have just observed six Atill Hack their Way through the slivered the Rush order of vaccines which the enemy for the first a shells striking it three were Ger thick undergrowth making their drugs dressings and surgical in be in this Campaign seemed Able Man Oliree were american. The gains foot by foot. Str ment to Points designated by tin 1 time in us Campaign. I to match the americans gun for smoke of the enemy and the White air activity Conli Washington aug. 5 the Quot in. The Yankee doughboy by _ our own mingles together Andias Allied fighter a w or department announced today dusk still held their toe hold in drifts slowly southward that Only three planes were lost j the smoke filled Valley in the raid on Rome and of these captured flanking Hills. And had ruled unabated fighter patrols Over Bendova intercepted 18 enemy raiders now the sky above the Ridge is and sent 13 spiralling earthward spotted with an air burst. And to against a loss of two planes. Public health officers of tile Allied military government. German and italian military authorities cleaned out much of the islands medical supplies and then of Tro Jour immediate forefront a Gulley sweeping Allied attackers strafed shortages in some sections have Ling High has been i pocketed with a Basket japanese positions and barges and constituted a grave threat to the the Crew of one was rescued. The this Battle for the Tow War department stated that 272ina and its surrounding High has been jacketed with a Basket japanese positions and barges heavy bombers and 249 medium ground had been going on for two of mortars. Bombed Supply dumps. In a Low health of the population bombers dropped 1,100 tons of Days. It has increased in ferocity i this is a Battle of big guns and level raid on Hie enemy seaplane larger shipments of medicines Bornite on Rome in what the de until the heavy sound of firing is Back on the Road i can see a a Long base on Shortland Island United to combat malaria dysentery Typ Al unsent described As the heaviest almost non Stop and never is the Toms being brought up into posh j nations aircraft destroyed seven Pho id fever and other diseases Are Daylight bombing attack of the Valley completely Clear of smoke Hon. Can Hie enemy match them float planes three barges and a on their Vay from the United  to Date Ltd and dust from the exploding a a _ , j Small cargo vessel i states