Mediterranean Algiers Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 17, 1943, Algiers, Algiers                                Vol. I no. I>9, tuesday August 17, 1943 u. S. Army daily newspaper for troops in Algiers area one franc soviet More to Bryansk units japs Don t love ci0s6 italians anymore russians Advance toward Kharkov in Street Battles chunking. Aug. 16 a the rift Between the honorary aryan nations grows with the defeats in Sicily tile chinese news Agency re it red the japanese in  have placed All italian residents under strict surveillance and have ordered them to replace shortwave radio sets with regular receivers anyone listening to Allied broadcasts was threatened with severe punishment the report said. Naaf rips i Allied Cannon Shell Messina As sicilian fighting nears end London aunt 16soviet troops pressing Forward from captured Karchev Are forcing the germans bark toward Bryansk it was reported from Moscow last night. Tile Central front advances of eight Miles were the largest announced by the red army which is a imaged against the enemy Oil a flout stretching 450 Miles from Kharkov on the South to the spa it Demen k area on uie North.  111-v fought their Way through tile suburbs of Kharkov soviet proof found their Progress slowed by fierce German counterattacks spirited resistance is being offered by the crack nazi divisions Choom to Temh a rearguard action which will permit the bulk of the defending forces to Retreat successful v. Moscow. Aue. 16�?in observing its annual aviation Day the soviet air Force announced that 43.000 Aku inane had been shot Down in the first two years of tile War. Since the capture of Karchev was announced last night the russians have driven to within 19 Miles of Bryansk along a 17-mile front. The right and left wings a executing a wide pincer movement Westward town Ard the German Bast Khi in an Effort to encircle and Cut it off from reinforcements a c-1 respondent said. Although Karchev was the last Illuminant City in the defense line before Bryansk the russians will not find the last few Miles easy to take. The terrain lying in the  of the offensive forces is thickly wooded and criss crossed by Many Small streams. North of Bryansk nearly tin of was to Smolensk the russian drive at Spass Demenski is continuing and the red army has bettered its position the official communique  Greet Gen. Eisenhower Allied Force Headquarters the note to Gen. Dwight d Eisenhower didst observe the army proprieties of address and subject but it carried All the sincerity its 26 Navajo Indian endorsers could Send across tile sea the indians Are employed on a reservation by the Vanadium corporation of America. Personnel of the company were praised recently by Gen. Eisenhower tor their work in producing the Metal which is an essential in War manufacturing. Through Harry Goulding an Indian trader the Twenty six sent the following reply and each signed with his thumb print a to Gen. Com. In chief of Allied forces in Africa. General Eisenhower. We. The undersigned Navajo indians of Monument Valley on the Northern Navajo reservation have heard the Telegram from our general. We thank you for what you have said to us in your Telegram. We will work harder to get More Vanadium from under Hie rocks on our reservation so the guns and air planes and munitions you need Over there where you Are fighting will be Strong. We Are proud our reservation has Vanadium to Hel win this  among the names signed to the letter were sheep White. Ada Kaskie Bodoni Shim Cly Begay. Hosteen sour Grout Hite Chee Little John. Delete Black for is Host to Churchil important staff meetings begin Quebec aug 16 after returning irom a three Day visit with president and mrs. Roosevelt at their Hyde Park. N. Y., Home prime Munster Winston Churchill last night Tiegan a series of conferences with the combined British and United states chiefs of staff. President Roosevelt returned to Washington but will join Hie Quebec conference this week., it Wijs announced at the White House. Tile subjects discussed by the Allied leaders during tile weekend wine not mentioned in official releases and it is expected that the formal announcement after the full scale talks Here will cover the entire conference. The forthcoming meeting in Quebec began to take on More and More political aspects. British foreign Secretary Anthony Eden is expected to arrive within the next few dais and it is thought possible that Secretary of state. Cordell Hull will join ins Cinel for the conference. Eden it was said is bringing formal British proposals designed to Settle the various political problems confronting the United nations. The combined military staff meetings it was said now taking place May Clear the Way for a rapid settlement of questions concerning operations when the president and the prime minister meet leaving More time for thrashing out political problems of the european  rails Highway bombers Pound enemy troops seeking escape Ai lied Force Headquarters aug 16 All the Way from the tip of Italy to Viterbo. 45 Miles North of Rome bonders of the Northwest  air forces Are ripping apart transportation lines Winch the beaten forces of the Axis must los to get away from the Allied steamroller now bring i my the sicilian Campaign to a triumphant close. American medium and tighter a bombers by by and Rak wellingtons by night Are making the Railroad lines and highways of tile italian West coast a series of death traps battered enemy troops seeking escape or no Hie huge a grave that us Sicily receive no re.4t. Are Given no Chance to Reform or re equip themselves a High rap officer last night acknowledged that Many Axis soldiers Are Able to make their Way across tile Straits of Messina in Small boats by night in spite of continual attack by the tactical air Force but in View of the intensity of tile Allied bomber onslaught on tile Escaje routes of the italian Mainland Many a member of the once proud Wehr Maht is finding he has jumped from the frying pan into tile fire last night Raf and Craf wellingtons swung out from North Africa to bring destruction to the strategic rail Junction of Viterbo in Central Italy thus cutting one of the Northern routes out it Rome in the Moonlight. British and Canadian airmen could see Sticks of bombs smashing the rails below them. The marshalling Yards were devastated by the explosions of 4000-Pound Block busters. Wellingtons attacked other rail Points to the South and at the Capri marshalling Yards t h e v found t hat fires started by american Daylight bombings were still burning. Pattern booming by Saaf b-26 marauders had dealt the damage to Capri. West coast italian port in the Gulf of . Which the wellingtons saw. Is continued on Page 4>swedes restrict nazi transports Stockholm Sweden has decreed that courier aircraft must not be used to transport nazi military personnel across Sweden. A communique announced that the regulation applied to air travel Between Germany Aud Kinland it said courier planes must Bear identification flags must not carry bombs or automatic weal Anis and must to operated by civilian per soit Nel Only. On aug 5. Sweden announced the movement of German War materials across Sweden to Norway would in halted and the transportation of troops stopped after aug 20. Abrogating a transit agreement operative since soon after the War  nazis leave italians to guard re Arraf bombs Berlin. Milan Lon Ixo n. Aug 16 a Royal air Force Mosquito bombers struck Berlin last night. Hie air ministry announced today without releasing details of Hie attack. Aircraft of tile bomber command meantime made another attack on Industrial objectives at Milan. The attack was made in Bright Moonlight and a number of enemy fighters were encountered in route the announcement said. On saturday night two separate forces of Lancaster swept in simultaneously to give Milan a War factories a further 22 minute pounding and they found fires still raging from the first assault two nights before. The Raf opened its tremendous attack wit i a 1,000-Lon attack on thursday. Reports from Switzerland and Stockholm indicate that Milan is already the scene of utter devastation. The Milan correspondent continued on Page 4t sea Landing it was Tough try &.gt. Jack Poisel stars and stripes staff writer largest Gam on tins sector since with american troops advancing along the North sicilian coast aug. 12. Delayed tougher than the first one. Tougher than hell so said the men of this Force upon being relieved after their second amphibious Landing behind the j Retreat. The carnage enemy lines in the space of five Days. Each time the Landing was effected successfully the objective reached the Mission accomplished. La. Col Lyle w. Bernard has a right to be proud of his men. And Hie men Are proud of their colonel. For 29 hours they had fought their Lone Battle had seen their tanks and artillery neutralized by enemy counterattacks. The men who remained entrenched on tile Hill their ammunition almost expended. Grimly awaited the final watched assault which would wipe them out. The final assault never came. Jerry had had enough and was Content to creep away last night. The main body of americans though harassed by enemy rearguard action kept coming through Hie dark and made Contact Early this morning. They kept right on going these yanks and by tonight had crossed the River san Angelo just West of Dis Cape gala a. An Advance of about Cherise Asan and Luke Yozzie. 15 Miles in 24 hours. This was the the nazis settled Down. To their hedgehog de tense More than two weeks ago it was the forces beachhead and Roadblock in Hie Shadow of Cape do Orlando that set off this German at the Point of Imi it act was terrifying borne american Mobile artillery pieces american general Sherman tanks and German tanks and vehicles All of them now charred masses of wreckage lie in a narrow strip Between the beaches and the mountains at Hie Entrance to the town of Brofos i  monsters of steel fought it out at almost Pointblank Range tor Mastery of the coastal Highway. Ontl a Hill above the infantry in fearful fascination knowing full Well that their turn would come next. They saw a Mark in and an m-5, in a moment of fanatical hate smash head on. The fire burned for Many hours. That was yesterday. This morning came Relief. The bodies of the dead Are intermingled with Hie wreckage. A dog. Silent and morbid sits off to the Side and stares at the horror. A few Hundred Yards away what is left of the outfit they took quite Treavy losses Lias come Down out of the Hills and bivouacked in the Orchard. Tile men Are bathing shaving and washing their clothes in the irrigation ditch. There is no laughter. The talk is quiet and  a you want the Story a asked col. Bernard. A a Well it was Tough a tougher than the first time. Wait 1 11 get you our  a records a a a Why yes. A diary of the events and orders and the reports during the fight. A play by play account you can Call it. We have men who have that jobs a a a even up there on the Hill with All those 38 a bombings and snipers a a that is their  a sgt. Jack Dailey of 19154 a Cama ave., Detroit brought Forth the administrative journal. There was blood on tile second Page. Quot whose blood a Quot mine Quot said sgt Dailey quietly. His journal of those 29 hours behind the enemy lines begins on the morning of wednesday. Aug. La 0243 first assault wave landed. A it was the easiest yet. Even better than the Landing last sunday a 0315 All troops pushed Inland and met with heavy machine gun fire. Continued on Page by pvt. Pahl 8. Imeln stars and St notes staff writer Allied Force Headquarters. Aug is Long Range artillery of the american and British armies were droning shells into Hie streets of Messina yesterday  the allies raced ahead at tops mid to close in on the doomed City everywhere the germans showed their heels to the onrushing Avalanche As they fled Lur their lives. Tile end of the sicilian operation is at  officials announced tilts morning As us by revealed yesterdays Progress was the most Siee tabular Advance made in the past week. Leaving behind them a thin ragged line of italians to make a last stand German forces crowded into Messina Harbor in a last minute attempt to evade the death raining from tile skies and Cross the Straits without meeting Davy Jones on the Way. It was believed they were interested Only in saving their skins and would not put up much of a fight for Hie City. Captured enemy documents proved the germans gave their allies the Honor of holding the bag. Two italian coastal regiments a whose fighting record in the Oast is none too Good were picked to meet the 8hi army along a third class Road running from Roccalumera. 18 Miles below Messina on the Cistern coast to Mandanici five Miles Inland. It was a Good bet they  stand up against Hie mommies for very Long. The final a a line in the was of the allies was a series of defensive Points forming a Circle five Miles around Messina. Yesterday american forces raced up the Northern Road to the Vicinity of Milazzo whose beaches had been used to ship Axis troops to Hie toe of the italian Boot. Occupation of the area put a Stop to All evacuation activities. The germans didst try to face the 7th army men but they did pause Long enough to leave a Trail of minefields and demolished roads and Bridges behind them. As the 8th army pounded Down the Home stretch their troops swept into the towns of Taormina 30 Miles below Messina Kaggie five Miles Inland and Castiglione ten Miles off the coast. This brought the British within artillery Range of tile italian Mainland to the East and heir gunners began to Trade shells with the enemy Over the water. American officers announced continued on Page 4 Street workers vote strike end Buffalo. N. A a Twenty three Hundred striking employees of the Republic steel corporation s Buffalo Plant have voted an immediate end to a four Day walkout. According to company spokesmen the strike had paralysed tin Mill s steel production and was in violation of the unions contract. Joseph t. My Nichols District director of the Cio United steel workers of America declared a an accumulation of grievances a which led to the a unauthorized walkout would be referred to the War labor Board for Settle my Quot