Mediterranean Algiers Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 18, 1943, Algiers, Algiers                                Pac 4 the 5tars and stripes daily wednesday a it 18, 1943nazis admit Allied blows no War at Home Goebbels says the grief caused Germany by the Allied air offensive was admitted for the first time last week by propaganda minister or. Paul Joseph Goebbels in the Berlin newspaper Voel Kischer Beo Zachter. At the same time Adolf hitlers no. I mouthpiece marked Back to the great German victories in 1939, 1940 and 1941 to show the nation that All was still Well with the nazi legions and the new order. Quot All our soldiers today Are fighting outside our frontiers mostly More than 1,000 Kilometres from German territory Quot he declared. The reference to the distance of the Battle from the fatherland is the identical line used by the German High command in tile summer and autumn of ibis when the allies were pushing the wehrmacht from Northern prance for the first time since 1914. He emphasized that the general War situation naturally undergoes continuous oscillation a far cry from the boasts of speedy and Complete Victory that were shouted throughout the first two years of the War. Goebbels asked who would have dared to Hope at the beginning of the War to keep the War from the fatherland. Forgotten were the predictions that Der fuehrer would ride through Moscow in october 1941. Weakly prophesying a counterattack against the Allied air War. Goebbels confessed that Quot till then. We will have to put up with  the highest glory of posterity in the Reich he continued will be the Home front s fight against Hie hostile air terror. A new kind of goal was also set for Hie German people. Not Only in our victories do we wish to Excel our enemies a Goebbels said. A a in the occasional taking of blows and set backs also we will set an inimitable example for the  he went on to remark that the germans have every prerequisite for excelling in defeat. Quot we Only need use  was his surprising statement about the  tile first half of the War was a matter of bravery but the second half is a matter of toughness he closed Quot we will be As capable in the latter virtue As in the former. For we know that the hour of our Triumph slowly but securely ripens Quot Goebbels  a mans world say sewing soldiers Camp Campbell Kyd the nightly sewing class of co. A 9th armoured regiment 20th division will come to order. Complete from thimbles to sewing machine the class has 40 members who meet to Gripe and Start sewing Circle rumours. Top Man at darning socks is sgt. Quot Hemstitch Hughes while Quot thimbles Quot Schreimer Quot Needles Quot Grabowski and Quot ruffles Burrell reportedly Patch fatigues in a manner to put girl factory welders to shame. I Sicily rails continued from Page Iiran bombs Milan again City is dying eyewitness says London. Aug 17�?guided by fires started in a raid 24 hours earlier. Rap Bra lain based bombers attacked Milan in Northern Italy again sunday night dropping More than too Block busters. A Milan is dying Quot said the correspondent of the Swiss paper die tat. Quot All Public services telephones trams and railways Are suspended food is unobtainable. No news papiers Are published. Raf bombers were reported Over Italy again last night. Meanwhile american and British aircraft based in England have continued to make a Lull of the rest of Axis Europe. Fortresses struck at German airfields at Lebourget near Paris in just one of a dozen attacks on military installations in France. Tile raids marked the first anniversary of tile Britain based 8th Usa of. Today saw the end of a year in which the 8th dropped 15,722 tons of bombs during 82 missions and made an average of two missions every nine Days up to sunday the american Force claimed 178 German fighters destroyed. 671 probably destroyed and 870 damaged against 419 bombers  Battle continued from Page ii Countryside a quagmire after even Small rams observers said it is expected that the russian pincers already parallel with Bryansk North and South will soon Start to close in a Riant envelopment movement similar to the tactics that took Orel and have swept into Al Zaikov. The final push to the German fortress necessarily will be slow because of the natural Protection offered the City and the stiff resistance shown by the German defenders. In addition to its strategic position As the key to the safety of Smolensk Bryansk is an important railway Junction and its huge Iron works Glass factories and rope manufacturing plants employed thousands of workers before the War. It lies on the West Bank of the desna River which the russians must Cross in order to capture the City. In tile Spass Demenski area Halfway Between Bryansk and Smolensk the soviet offensive seized 30 places and gained from five to eight Miles yesterday it was announced nazis jail norwegians Stockholm. Aug. 17 by hitlers orders All norwegian officers Are being sent to prison Camps in Germany. The German commander in chief in Norway declared in a proclamation Oil the Oslo radio Quot a Large number of norwegian officers have fled the country with the aim of taking up service on tile Side of Germany a enemies. Other officers have carried out illegal acts inside Norway. Because of these facts the Fuhrer has it f a ered that All norwegian officers. Which were released at the end of hostilities in May 1940. Will be transported to Germany As prisoners of War tile swedish radio meantime broadcast news of the execution of Oslo s chief of police. The report said the officer died because he refused to arrest norwegian women who had opposed mobilization for German  released Baltimore married men inducted into service while single men Are still available Are entitled to release Federal judge w. Calvin Chestnut ruled in the first Case of its kind. The ruling does no to prevent later and proffer induction the court pointed out. Fore throwing in the sponge. They used some Mobile artillery in a half hearted attempt to slow up the Advance but they did t put up a fight anywhere along the line. Evacuation activities petered out As fewer Aud fewer ships left the Harbor for the suicide run to the Mainland. Allied pilots covering the skies noticed Hie flak had dwindled on the Sicily Side of the Straits but ack ack was still intense on the opposite Shore. The us. Navy revealed yank forces had pulled off still another sea raid on the Northern coast the third in the a St ten Days. The Landing was made yesterday morning near Milazzo an Imi it Ort ant i it Ort that had been bypassed by the main body of american troops on to Weir Way to Messina. Landing not difficult Quot the Landing is made without  the Navy announced giving no further details of the Oigt ration. In tile last push toward Messina 7th army troops fanned out from the Northern coast some units sweeping Down the main Road and capturing gesso five Miles Northwest of Messina some resistance was met in this area. Other forces moved Inland to occupy Monfort e san Giorgio nine Miles Southwest of Messina and seven Miles below gesso both cities Are in the general Region where Hie germans decided to set up their final defense line. At 0390 hours yesterday the 7th army brought its main artillery into position and began to Pound the outer defences of Messina with heavy shells As the Advance forces raced Forward to close the Gap the Honor of reaching the goal past first went to the 3rd division bos under the command of my Gen. Lucian k Truscott. A 48-year-old texan the 3rd took part in the Campaign from tile very beginning taking Licata on the Southern shores then marching up on the left flank of the 1st division to capture Canicatti to the North and Agrigento to the Northwest off the coast. Coming at Messina from the South 8th army commandos made a daring Landing eight Miles below the City about the time the yanks were doing the same thing in the North. They were practically unopposed As they swarmed ashore behind enemy lines. This move Cut off two italian regiments making a last stand at Roccalumera. Ten Miles South. It also put j Advance British Troolis nine Miles East of Reggio important enemy j port across the Straits where italian coastal guns Are concentrated. The main body or 8th army troops pushing Forward to join up with the raiders met some opposition five Miles North of Taormina but they had no trouble in repulsing the single counterattack attempted by the enemy. Because some resistance was met. Even though it was minor observers believed there must have been some germans around to stiffen the backs of the italians stationed there. Continuing North the mommies moved into Santa Teresa i Riva two Miles below the italian line at Roccalumera. Everywhere the allies met Only isolated resistance and it was apparent the end was Only a matter of hours the germans continued their annoying habit of demolishing their path of Retreat but such tactics gave Hie allies Little trouble by that time. Navies Shell Akla the vigilant Bali Len and american navies kept pounding the entire area in and around the Straits off the North and East coasts of Sicily and both coasts of the calabrian Peninsula opposite the East coast of Sicily. Harassing Axis forces evacuated from tile Island. Allied ships bombarded scaled on the Smith Side of the Gulf of pol in Astro in the lower third of Hie italian Boot and Vibo Valencia further South a thousand shells were tired into Scales within 20 minutes. Terse announcements of the dog gasps of the sicilian Campaign were made to press Corres a a dents at Afaq throughout Hie Day. At pm hours this Flash was read troops of the american 3rd a vision reached the our skin s of Messina at eight o clock last night the 16th of  this development came As no Surprise having let Een exacted in View of the swill Allied advances the Day before. Ten minutes later the regular daily communique brought further details including the British commando raid Twenty minutes afer that a Navy communique announced the latest american Ani Phinious  set for meeting War plans studied by Allied chiefs Quebec. Aug. 17 a plaits for knocking out Italy while dealing unprecedented blows at Germany before beginning ground operations in Western Euronie were favored by american. Canadian and British chiefs of staff in their meetings Here it was reliably related last night. The full dress conference Between prime minister Winston Churchill and president Franklin d. Roosevelt will be underway in a matter of  and All the preliminary details have been worked out for the strategic decisions to come one correspondent said. The Washington the Washington Post today said the possibility that soviet Russia May enter the War against Japan May have been raised in the Roosevelt Church Iii talks. Quot Russia May have to go to War in the Pacific and Grant the United states air bases at Kamchatka As soon As Italy is knocked out and the United nations opt n a front on the continent a the dispatch said. Marseilles airfields continued from Page i Wellington heavy bombers of the Royal air Force paid a devastating visit to Viterbo. 45 Miles North of Rome this time the Ai drome there was heavily attacked. For Miles along the italian West coast Between Palmi and Pizzo other wellingtons last night patrolled the beaches. Crews sighted and bombed concentrations of barges and sent High explosives whistling Down on Bridges and rail lines. Coordinated operations by the us a of and the Raf brought invaders. Marauder s. Mitchells. Lightnings War Hawks Bostons. Bali i mores and Kitty Hawks ranging All Over the toe of the italian Peninsula. Vehicles and troop and Materiel concentrations were machine gunned roads and railways again came in for heavy punishment. North of Messina Usa of Mitchells bombed two 7.000-ton merchant ships and set fire to one of them. Raf Baltimore came along later and attacked the burning vessel. Fighter bombers swooped Down on the Straits continually destroying ten barges and damaging close to 16 others a Beau fighter Squadron of the coastal air Force flounced on an enemy Convoy 35 a Miles North of Naples. Tori it edged two merchant vessels and raked three destroyers with Cannon fire. During july aircraft of the tactical air Force alone flew More than 12.500 sorties in the Battle for Sicily it was revealed Here today in an Naaf release. I he record was built Ufa by Saaf and Raf fighters fighter bombers and Light and medium bombers in a tremendous offensive against the enemy a lines of Supply and communication. A breakdown of the figures showed that fighter bombers led the Parade with Over 7.000 sorties. Light and medium bombers made 3.000 and spitfires accounted tor 2.500earl Carroll sued i Montreal. Canada a either i Earl Carroll has lost his touch i with the women or a Montreal i theater owner suddenly went Blind. A court suit Here indicated. The famous showman was made defendant in a suit which charged his chorus girls were not Quot tile most Beautiful girls in the  but were without Beauty or Glamor whatsoever. Theater operator Joseph Desautels said he lost Money on the Carroll troupe that flayed ins silo who  Abnery Al Capp Maryin   Atco to goes on if this we0din mar s something a Ciotta Tell the Bride. , Long discussed question of a second front is receiving the closest consideration from the High military officials from captains to generals who have been meeting since Friday night storks quoting the prune my Ester a it saying or War would a Over Iii six months were officially denied by Churchill yesterday it is thought the statements appearing in French language newspapers in Canada were based on a misunderstanding of High re Taus Mech to the Quebec provincial legislature. Meanwhile. President Roose velt summoned i Cabinet members to the White House for a series of conferences presumably the last before he entrails Lur Canada a Washington dispatch said especially noted were appointments with s Creary of state Cordell Hull and Navy Secretary Frank  defense i continued from Page ii divisions in the Campaign especially those previously untried in Bat tie. Said one commander the 45th division is proof that there is nothing wrong with our veining program. They ran into the Best German troops on the Island and out fought  tonight the american 3rd infantry division is on the North coastal Road within 15 Miles of Messina. Tin British on Hie East coast Are reported just North of Taormina some 25 Miles away. The 3rd division s Best infantry Are racing ahead in trucks and on foot. Reconnaissance patrols in jeeps Are out in front just ahead of Engineer units which Are Clearing the Way. After pushing ahead All Day without Contact the advancing american elements ran into Light artillery coming from gesso where the coast Road turns Inland toward Messina it appeared that the enemy would seek to delay the Advance Long enough for one lust evacuation Effort tonight. American Quot Long Toms Quot were being rushed up to fire on the Mainland. We fire tonight. I Don t know what Well hit but Well fire tonight a declared an artillery commander eager for the fray. Another amphibious operation planned to Cut in behind Hie enemy lines was called off because there was no longer any line to get behind. But the British Are Rex arted putting their infantry in boats to get around blown up segments of the East Road to Messina. The american 3rd division was the first Allied outfit reported to have reached Messina. Time monday at 2000 hours less than 24 hours after this dispatch was written editor s note sues for draft a cod canal zone when he received a draft notice from Rul a okla., Jesse d. Walker an Engineer working for the army notified authorities he was quitting his Job. The army refused to release him so he sued to be drafted in Tulsa tile court ruled he could return but said it. Would t enforce the ruling Walker was still up i the air concerning his induction status but at last reports he was still working for the army