Mediterranean Algiers Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 24, 1943, Algiers, Algiers                                \ a Page 4 the stars and stripes daily Bority says 8th to move canadians Civen hint by general Luftwaffe chiefs die in Laboratory Continental assault Catania Sicily a Gen. Sir Bernard Law Montgomery com minder of the British 8th army  weekend told Canadian troop under him that they would ibid be on the move again soon ichor dog to a front Page Story in he 8th army news. His exact words were a a we shall very soon be packing again i sex x it. A Quot wherever i go Quot he was report to have added Quot i would like o have you with me Quot described As looking bronzed my fit. The 8th army command a praised the fighting qualities of die Canadian troops declaring that the whole sicilian Campaign had hinged on the Wheeling movement to the left of it. Etna which they carried out successfully Quot if you had  he was quoted a a we should still be fight Rig in this Island. But you handled yourselves according to the Best id High standards of my army in a his very Short this Model Little ?9-t1ay Campaign Quot it has been said it was a great Amor for canadians to be Iii the 5th  he reportedly added a but i say it is a great Honor for tie 8th army to have the canadians. I wish we had More of hem Quot London aug. 23�?two High German officers Gen. Gly Nencka chief it the scientific research department of the Luftwaffe and col. Gen. Jeschonnek chief of staff of the Luftwaffe were killed at Peene Munde. According to Swiss reports. The advices differ As to whether they were killed in the recent Raf raid on the German exl it Erir nent station or during experiments with the secret weapon pts of promised by nazi leaders As a Means of retaliation against Britain Many Kiska japs killed Navy air attacks took heavy toll marauders continued from Page or a Gilic entreated Bombin operation by flare Light. Several 4.0oj-Pounder id scores of smaller explosives first across the roads. An indication of the desolation which the Allied air forces have made of Sou a inmost Italy is seen Iii tile rep it that Raf Kitty in it i is escorted by spitfires hew Tine missions Over the t in of the Peninsula yesterday without seeing a Nill Ary target Worth bombing or a Ira ting. B-26 gunners who shot Down Meljo priming the fight Over Salerno in dudes sgt. George j. Delware. Hortonville i two Vic a l ies a sgt. T. Roike Newark. Ohio two victories Cpl. James c Harr s Ai. Jervis. N. Y. Sgt. Thomas p. Haney Phi Ladelphia is to by ii Best Petrosky. Wilkes Barre. A. To sgt. Phillip Landman St. Paul Minn. A set John w.  Deerr a. A set. Car w. Anderson. Jr., Ishpeming. Mich. A sgt Edward i. Cromer. Cumberland. My. A sgt Theodore Taylor. Niagara Falls. N. Y. To a. Thomas e Hall. Philadelphia a sgt James r. Britt. Lake Charles. Lat so Donald e. Loebert Claca go a sgt. Norman a. Riggs. Auburn. N y. Pirn a i. Brough. Oakland Cal. A sgt. Carl r ship lev. Columbus Ohio sgt w l Jenkins. Columbus Ohio sgt g. J. Farkas Arwood n. Y. Fat g. M. Miller. Pine Grove Pas sgt. Clarence l Hughes. Wet Graham.  sgt. George f Doran. Muscatine. Iowa a sgt. E o. Shinn. Oak Grove. Ala. A sgt j a Whitman. Wellesley Hills mass. Is j a a sgt. Edward Conns sgt. W Boon. W is so Barton. It. And Tragert Minneapolis a-38 pilots who scored victories were copt. Wlson b. Gill hand. Starkville miss. We Quot bagged an Ma-�?~m2, and it. Everett f. Fager of Miller. Kan. Who shot Down an me-109 Washington. Aug. 23 Many of the eight or nine thousand japs Ion Kiska were killed by air and Navy bombardment before the Aleutian Island was abandoned just before occupation by a combined american and Canadian Force vice Admiral Thomas c Kincaid commanding the North Pacific Fleet said in an announcement released today by Hie Navy department. Many More japs were drowned when naval units shelled ships attempting the withdrawal in the fog the fall of Kiska the Admiral said. Means the allies now patrol the seas two thirds of the Way to Tokyo. It was revealed that the recapture d Kiska was made with the loss of but one life that of a Canadian Oft Eer killed when a Booby trap exploded. When the combined forces made Contact in Kiska s main Barbu they were amazed at the evident Speed of the Jap evacuation warehouses were bulging with necessary stores for a Large i Garrison and Large stocks of ammunition and several Large calibre guns. Before they left however the japs took time to install Many Booby traps the announcement said. Striking the initial blow in the Quot Battle of Italy Quot the in. S. Army a famous Quot in no Tom Quot a 155 my. Cannon is pictured in action against enemy Mainland installations shortly after american forces marched into the Messina area. Quot Long Toms Are continually knocking off targets across the narrow Straits. Photo by a sgt. Ralph Martin Gior Nale does t live Here anymore the newspaper Gior Nale i Sicilia has resumed publications in Rome radio Rome announced yesterday the Palermo Plant of the Gior Nale i Sicilia is now occupied by the stars and stripes sicilian edition. Litvinov v tor coca of Pic a. Moosup d Ruenzi Rul e. Robinson to sgt. Donald Brazil army set to go in a broadcast which marked the first anniversary of brazils entry info world War ii on the Side of the allies. Brazilian am a ass and it a to London Jose Moniz de Ango declared yesterday that his coun by now Lias an army of 300 too. Including an expeditionary Force ready to fight abroad he  a a the expeditionary Force awaits Ord is from the Allied High command to proceed to the Battlefront Quot. The ambassador described Natal on the Eastern bulge of Brazil As one of the important air bases in die world from it he said an endless Stream of aircraft and War supplies of All kinds Are being flown to the Mediterranean front. In Rio de Janeiro. Jefferson cattery. Us ambassador to Bia ii. D a Claro cd that brazilians have been unstinting in their a a cooperation. Confidence and Friendship and have poured out strategic War materials to the allies. Paraguay presidium Asuncion. Paraguay president Higinio Morongo has taken the oath of office for a five Yea term. He was reelected last february after holding the office since november. 1940. When president Jose Estigarribia was killed in a plane Crall continued from rage ii in owing to favourable developments in the War against Germany and other Vassal states. Many important questions about political relations with Eurott Ean states concerning xxx Star settlement Are beginning to Rijk a for political discussion it was pointed out. Litvinov who left Washington on May 8 to return to Moscow ostensibly to report to ins government has been seen frequently at the residence of american ambassador William h. Standley since he left the Kremlin Hospital in june. In ish born mrs. Litvinov has not yet left tills City. Long an outstanding spokesman for collective secure  was appointed to his Post Oil nov. 6, 1941, and arrived in Washington on dec. 7, a few hours before japans attack on Pearl Harbor. At that time lie denounced Japan As one of the Quot common gangster nations along Wanh Germany and Italy. Andrei Gromyko who has been elevated to the Post of russian ambassador to the United s ates came Here in 1938 with ambassador Constantine Ouin Ansky As embassy counsellor. His russian Home is near Minsk arum he is the first native of German held White Russia to represent the soviet Union in Washington. Gromyko a wife and Small son Are with him in Washington the american governments attitude toward soviet Russia was criticized by the new York Herald Tribune which called for clarity and definition in our foreign policy. A a the russians must have known that this sudden unexplained ending of Litvinova a Mission inevitably evoked memories of tile earlier occasion when ids removal As foreign minister heralded a change of course which led to the 1939 pact with the n is was hound to cause a s in in Britain and America a Hie editorial said in part. Swede ship in Transfer japanese Exchange Deal arranged Washington. Aug 23-tile swedish Exchange vessel grips oui will sail from new York Early in september with 1,500 Jaji Ailiese aboard to be exchanged at Goa in portuguese India tor americans and nationals of other Allied nations the War department has announced. Tile sailing was moved up about two weeks after sate conduct was assured by Japan and other Axis nations. The Exchange was scheduled by the slate department to take place by oct. 15 in the Neutral port. A i he first Transfer of japanese and american diplomats newspapermen and other nationals was made last year at portuguese East Africa. S ones released afterwards brought some criticism of american policy when it was disclosed that american prisoners had been ill treated by the japanese while tile United Stales had provided a luxurious hotel at hot Springs w. Va., As tin a a internment Camp for japanese held Here. The Gnu Holm will Stop at Uruguay to pick up additional japanese citizens interned by South american countries it was retried by acing Secretary of state Sumner Welles. The Exchange ship will also carry 1,400 tons of supplies for prisoners of War held by the japanese in the Philippines Java. Shanghai and Japan. Atmos 1.000.000 american red Ciss i packages will lie included in the i shipment. Tuesday August 24, 1943 Soong joins Quebec talk leaders discuss far East moves Quebec. Aug. 23 future military operations in the Pacific and far Eastern areas were indicate i As a result of the Roosevelt Churchill conference when the Anglo american leaders were joined by t. V. Soong. Chinese minister of foreign affairs. Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox and Secretary of War Henry l. Stimson today. Presidential Secretary Stephen Early told the press that the president. Tile prime minister and Soong will discuss Quot All the Points pertaining to the War against  otherwise there was Little news from Quebec As the conference neared its end. No official announcement has been made of the conclusion of flu talks but president Roosevelt is scheduled to address parliament in Ottawa wednesday it had thus been assumed that he and Churchill would finish their business in Quebec by tuesday night although there was a possibility that they might meet someplace else in Canada while the president is in route to Washington. Guard of the lighting Iii tile s Northern Subtile from the Salamata is Pacific Coal Washington. Aug 23 a the a Apt lire of Salamata. Advanced japanese base in Northern new Guinea. Is within sight advices from Allied Pacific Headquarters declared last night As australian Jungle troops Are chasing the japs oui of their last defense positions guarding approaches to the stronghold. The latest strategical gain is i 1.200 foot Ridge including slopes South of the Kennedy crossing overlooking Salamata Ai drome. Us Abner by Al Capp i in Nami an a is address month disappeared it Herr o the ftapcas.r7r Gul a s inc Musta writ it in disappearing Ink to is is conf oozing but not soar am of   Kharkov continued rom Page of visions swept Down across Hie Steppes from Belgorod while Oiler forces pressed northward irom the area around Oroshi Novgrad. Law Days later a Large russian column tossed the upper donets River use East of Kharkov and joined the other set arli Eads in an Ellen cling movement. While the soviet supreme command held Oil its Haymaker on Kharkov until the City was ringed with heavy artillery and huge tank forces Swift Mobile advances flanked the City from the North and South and swept Westward 40 Miles on each Side to threaten the last escape corridor at first the germans retreated before the russian tide and a week ago the Advance soviet forces was streets of Kharkov urls less than a City proper. Realizing that the loss of the City imperilled their whole position in Southern Russia the German War office then declared that Kharkov would be held a a at All  reinforcements numbering More i Hail 100,009 men in tank and infantry divisions streamed in from the West Over the two railways which had not yet been Cut. Huge Battles were fought in the open country West and South of Kharkov As the wehrmacht fought with its Back to the Wall to turn the russian offensive and save the German Eastern front defense line. But today the russians landed their solar plexus punch and the germans withdrew their Garrison rather than fight for Kharkov in a Street to Street Battle of the kind that proved so disastrous to them at Stalingrad. Kharkov has now changed hands for the fourth time in less than two years. The nazi legions swept through the City in their first victorious Campaign in tile summer of 1941 after they declared War Oil Russia. Last february the impetus of their Victory at Stalingrad carried tile russians across the donets and into Kharkov but they had moved too rapidly and this position was untenable. A German counterattack forced the soviets out a month later Oil March 15 but the russians never retreated very far from the prize City of the Ukraine. When they first abandoned Kharkov the russians scorched the City blew up most of its great tank factories electricity and water Mains. Whole City blocks remained As shattered empty shells. Factories and their workers were evacuated to the East. Those who remained of the prewar population of 833.432 suffered starvation forced labor torture and death at the hands of their German Inas ters. So tile recapture of Kharkov represents in ire than a military Victory for the russian people. The red army has scored its most glorious Triumph of the War the soviet might on land and in the air was amply exhibited by the russians ability to move Forward As powerfully 50 Days after their offensive started As on the opening Day of the summer Campaign