Mediterranean Algiers Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 11, 1943, Algiers, Algiers Saturday september la 1943 sum tuner offensive the stars and stripes weekly Page 3 Italy to receive Coal from United states jubilant and cautious Washington. Sept. To a tilt United states is preparing to Send shipments of Coal to fallen Italy. Secretary of Interior Harold l. Lakes said today. The Coal is needed to maintain locomotives manufacturing plants and ships and Only Britain. South Africa and the United states can Supply the italians. Quot we will do our Tokes 1 stated Quot although it will have an Adverse effect on the Domestic Coal 1 situation at a time when we can to stand Many More own gets Freer hand on news additional War facts slated for papers officials Calm Public wild at news of capitulation russian armies Advance As Victory salvos sound the big guns at Moscow worked overtime this week to Boom out soviet rejoicing Over the Triump Lis at Stalin and Bachmach. The major Victory at Stalin warranted a 224-gun Salute while Bachmach was honoured with 124, according to the orders of the Day from marshal Joseph Stalin but tile soviet front line Troolis had no time to fire salvos for pleasure. They were engaged in hurling massed tanks and infantry after the retreating germans throughout the entire Ukraine and seemed intent on reaching the Dnieper River before the first Snow. German atrocity yesterday Moscow declared that tile germans herded thousands of women and children into buildings in Stalin which were then set afire. The screams of the dying greeted the soviet troops As they entered tile City. Two months ago the wehrmacht launched its Short lived summer offensive on the Orel kursk bulge now the russian armies have come far across the Plains of the Ukraine and each step of their biggest Victory drive of the War has been followed by increased vigor and determination to fulfil s Alm s order a death to the German now Only 80 Miles Northeast of Kiev in the Central sector and less Argentine president quits after Rebuff Buenos Aires the Argentine foreign minister vice adm. Segundo a Orni resigned in the Quot patriotic interest and because of a a All tile obstacles my person May represent to the Best Success of the Ramirez storms action came two Days after . Secretary of state Cordell Hull had made Public his correspondence with storm in which to United states sharply rejected the Argentine request for lend lease Aid. Or. Hulls reasons were Argentina s refusal to join in hemispheric defense and the fact that Axis agents Are still permitted Iii Argentina. Bulgarian Regency London a Prince Cyril the brother of the late King Bons prime minister Filo and Gen. Makhov. The minister of War have been a jointed members of the Council of Regency it was announced yesterday in Sofia. Than too Miles away from the great bulge of the Dnieper River at Dnepropetrovsk the soviet forces have abandoned their old slogan a a summer for bleeding Winter for this year the hot months of summer have seen the greatest 1 soviet gains of the entire War. J while hitlers legions have left their dead by the thousands on battlegrounds which have never let Oen held Long by any would be i i conqueror from the West. Fanning out swiftly from Sta i Lino the russians have already j recaptured the wide net of Raij a Load and communication lines in tile donets Basin As Well As the Rich Coal Fields which before tile j i War produced More than 100,000,000 urns annually. The germans have destroyed most of the resources of the Region it is admitted but the russians in the past have shown ability to rebuild the Quot scorched Earth left by the nazis. Soviet wedge while thousands of German troops try to escape the russian armies pushing from Stalin and Kharkov in a great pincer movement to the Dnieper the German Central armies have lost All Contact with their comrades to tile South. The soviet wedge has driven deep into the Northern Ukraine and the capture this week of Konotop and Bachmach severed the connecting rail link Between the nazi forces. It is this red army spearhead which is approaching Kiev the greatest German bastion of the South. Kiev ranks with Smolensk in the North As the key to the entire wehrmacht position in the land that has Cost tin fuehrer the Pride of German manhood. Smolensk too. Is under severe i russian pressure. Soviet troops have pierced the hedgehog outer defense line around the German Headquarters in Russia and Are Only 40 Miles away on the South at Yelva and on the East at do rogue ugh. As the summer offensive ends i its second month the germans i have lost the bases from which they had hoped to make the final assault on Moscow. Now Kiev and Smolensk Are coming within the irresistible soviet pincers which have not failed to gain an object live this summer. The loss of either Kiev or Smolensk would appear to write Quot finish to hitlers i dances of decisive Victory in Russia. The loss of both might endanger the wehrmacht a chances of remaining of russian soil at All from the stars and stripes . Bureau Washington sept. Ion Fol lowing a decision to give the Public More War facts. President Roosevelt has sent letters to the army Navy and state departments reiterating that the office of War information was created for just that purpose and should have a Freer hand. The president indicated that in1 any future disagreements Between own and the services own May Appeal directly to the White House j even when the services give Quot Mill j tary Security As the reason for withholding facts. It was disclosed last week that the government intends to give the Public a Quot More realistic View of the War through news accounts photographs and newsreels. The presidents letters to secretaries Stimson Knox and Hull make it Clear that the own is to have full Access to military information and photos in the most secret matters and that own will participate in an advisory capacity in decisions As to their release. Own officials have frequently declared that the armed services have a a a tendency to present the War to the Public As one wherein a a nobody gets own has argued that the Public should be shown that americans Are killed and wounded the same As the enemy and that readers should see photographs of blasted american ships and planes As Well As those of the Axis. The new policy has already started with the publication of photos of american paratroopers killed in Sicily and the release of a newsreel showing an american ship blasted in a sicilian Harbor by a direct hit. The new policy however excludes the publication of photographs wherein casualties Are identifiable. New York Italy was out of the War but the War was not yet out of Italy. Herein Lay the difference Between the reactions of a wildly excited Public and official Washington As the news of Italy a surrender flashed across the country. Throughout the nation Ordinary americans celebrated the historic news with ringing cheers. In larger cities there were Street demonstrations while in War plants workers cheered but went on working. In now York City a Little Italy a Holiday began in which neighbors hugged and kissed each other and drinks wore on the House for any servicemen who passed by. Others went to Church to Pray for the safety of their sons and Brothers in the armed forces and to thank god for the separation of their native Italy from the Axis. Cheering broke out on the floor of new Yolk s Stock Exchange and Many of tile City a streets were White with ticker tape torn newspapers and Telephone books pages showered from Oil ice windows. Thirty five trucks were required by the sanitation department to cart away the litter on the morning after. When the news reached Julius Klorfein a wealthy Cigar manufacturer who has already bought millions of dollars Worth of War Bonds he headed for a Telephone in both in the Empire state building and bought another million. At fort Benning. Ga., several Hundred prisoners who had just arrived from Sicily shouted a a Viva Roosevelt Viva la America a together with other italian prisoners of War. They requested a to deum mass and cheered when permission was granted. The nations newspapers blazed the news Nom coast to coast with huge streamers and printed reactions from the nations Small and great. Joseph cast Agria a Street peddle said Quot the italian people never wanted War anyway but they help themselves. A Arturo Toscanini the noted conductor who has Long been an outspoken anti fascist commented a i can Only say blessed Italy at last you Are free co join the allies who Are struggling to keep alive the name of Liberty in the a Toscanini announced that he was preparing a special Victory concert to be broadcast Over no. In the nations capital officials promptly warned that the unconditional surrender of Italy still left the hardest part of the War to be fought. Representative Wesley Disney Democrat from Oklahoma said that the nation a a must in of let Down its efforts even remotely because Italy is out of the representative Harold Knutsen Republican from Minnesota said the surrender would have a terrific Impact on germans morale. Secretary of the Treasury Henry a. Morgenthau told the nation that their Purchase of War Bonds had paid Concrete dividends and that today a Success was All the More reason to buy More to shorten the War. Henry l. Stimson Secretary of War. Gave a pointed warning Quot we shall probably experience a great Deal of hard fighting in Italy. Two Strong enemies remain. There is no justification for any Assurance that they will soon be the Secretary of War praised j the italian people for their Cour i age in surrendering despite the presence of Large forces of germans in their country and quoted a press dispatch which said the surrender meant an act of Defiance which would involve inevitable suffering for the italian people. He declared that the surrender demonstrated Quot the underlying sympathy of the italian people for the cause of Freedom and the fact that they recognize that we and our Force it Repi vent the cause of the keynote for official expression was Sot by president Roosevelt who spoke on a nationwide broadcast one hour after forces under it. Gen. Mark w. Clark began their Landing operations near Naples. Announcing that the landings were already underway the president said we must drive the germans out of Italy As we have driven them out of Tunisia and Sicily we must drive them out of France and All other captive countries and we must strike them on their own soil from All directions. Today a armistice with Italy was a great Victory for the United nations but it was also a great Victory for the italian people. Alter years of War and suffering and degradation the italian Jie Ople Are at last coming to the Day of liberation from their real enemies the and then he said. Pointedly a a the time for Celebration is not Lye on the bail Nick air War against Reich increased London the combined weight of the Allied european air forces a from huge flying fortresses to Little spitfires were loosed in almost incessant night and Day raids on military objectives in nazi occupied countries and the Rhineland last week. I Early in the week in the third alack on Berlin in 12 Days bombs i dropped at the rate of 50 tons a minute and left the City ablaze for 48 hours afterwards. Mannheim and Ludwigshafen vital Industrial centers in Southwest Ger Many were ripped apart Ilia following night. J the Cradle of nazi Dom. Munich became the next target Tor the fortresses and Stuttgart a Southwest Germany a boat Center also received a heavy pounding. Occupied France bore the Brunt of the 24-hour swing shift bombardment. Wave after wave of every Tojie plane available hammered away at key targets in Northern France and in the Vicinity of Paris and Orleans. Yesterdays targets were an aircraft engine factory near Paris and eight enemy airfields and objectives in Northern and Northwestern France. The Raf alone sent out More than 1.500 sorties a record Day for the fighter command. The americans flew More than 1.000 sorties also a record Day Lur the american air Force. Late in the week As the unending Stream of planes roared Over England s Southwest Channel coast Large areas of the coastline were blocked off for practice Allied amphibious operations rehearsals for promised landings to come. Nick Nickola a sicilian kid is quickly picking up the finer Points of baseball Here from sgt. Robert Zelina of Cleveland. Pfc. Leo p ode Hanky of Eynon pa., is the Catcher. Even More interested in the game than Nick Are the two sicilian railway conductors looking on. A photo by a sgt. Phil Stern. Bucking for stripes learn to Hemstitch Washington army sergeants these Days must be ready for anything even sewing a hem on tile dress of a girl reporter. Martha Kearney ins reporter covering a rehearsal of the army Quot Back the attack show caught her Heel in her dress. Tile army insisted that the damage be repaired. A screen was hastily erected on a truck. Miss Kearney got behind it and passed her dress Over the top. A sergeant neatly stitched the tear and said Quot in a ready for anything now. A
