Oran Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - July 28, 1943, Oran, Oran La Savoian hmm vol. 1 to. 63 wednesday Only 28, 1943 ii. S. Army newspaper one franc famous German divisions rushed to sicilian front Allied Force Headquarters july 27 a fresh Germao troops Are being thrown into the Axis defences All Aleg the sicilian of tent to stiffen resistance reports indicated Here today. It was believed that the German 2si1i motorized division has taken of positions along the Northern sector of the front that the 15th division is fighting in Center positions and that the her Araann Goering division plus Para Chute troops Are defending the Hue lost South of Catania. Each of these divisions is a Quot ghost unit oboe destroyed by the allies now reformed with new personnel. The presence of the nazis in every Section of the front indicates that heavier fighting May be expected by the Allied forces striving to Complete their Conquest Sicily by driving a but i the to trim-�ok0 Wattem Eisenhower s letter to general Deboulle Gen. Dwight d. Eisenhower. Commander in chief of the Allied forces in North. Africa sent the following letter to Gen. Charles de Gaulle co president of the French committee of National liberation. Quot my dear general de Gaulle general juin sent Forward to me your kind message of congratulations to the British and american troops who participated in the july 14th review. I deeply appreciate your letter and can assure you that both British and american officers and men were justly proud to have had the Honor to help celebrate this historic occasion., and to symbolize by our United March on Bastille Day our common fight against tyranny. Quot we All look Forward to the Happy occasion when our United and victorious armies shall once again fittingly celebrate this historic Day in Paris Quot sincerely situation grave tells Italy general Eisenhower. Reds occupy 70 new villages on Industry not up Wirtz huge losses in Pacific area Washington july 27�?radio Tokyo today admitted that counterattacks by the British and americans had caused Quot a situation of unprecedented Gravity both inside and outside Japan a coupling the warning with a plea for greater Effort on the production front. Admission that All was not Well confirmed recent reports that japanese ministry was not keeping up with heavy losses on the Pacific War front. The broadcast concluded with an Appeal to the nation that is engaged in a Quot sacred War Quot which must not be endangered by production lags. Meantime Allied communiques from the far East gave ample proof that the japanese were having a Tough time of it on All Battle Fror a. Allied Pacific head a Erica my urges accept once of wholesale surrender setback by Raf 21 Ju-52 s shot Down on Woy to Quot Quot sicilian scene a a Straits onto the ital it Mainland. The american 7th army driving along the North coast particularly could expect suffer resistance than that encountered in recent operations which were concerned with knocking out largely apathetic italian a hat. Today a communique Only said operations by the 7th army Are proceeding according to plan Quot but authoritative military spokesmen Here expressed the belief that the americans Are meeting with stronger opposition. Jpn Prijian forces on the Central front have made Quot further limited in. The face of heavy the communique stated s and americans in the District Southwest of it. Successfully repulsed an Axis attack it was Learned is the first time a specific move by the enemy has mentioned Here in several dam. There was no mention Here today of any new towns taken by the Allied forces but it was Gen a a rally believed that the american forces Are closing in on the North Eafern Triangle of the Axis at Points a Good distance East of term Tal their last announced Cap objective. _ patrol activity was from the British 2th army. _____1 of Catania and there appeared to be some indication fat fighting there might be inked Spon messages from this reveal that the British have Tod Severa losses on Catania a dam some German Bat Cal leae have suffered As Many As 400 v one report said. London july 27�?the German escape corridor West of Orel is slowly but steadily being narrowed. Moscow reported last night. Russian troops closing in pm the strategic City from the North South and East captured 70 More towns and villages the soviet communique announced. Heaviest fighting yesterday occurred South of Orel where the red army captured two stations on the railway from kursk As Well As a town 15 Miles from Orel. The germans fought hard to hold one railway town launching five fierce counterattacks in an Effort to regain the District. Latest dispatches announced the germans were retreating everywhere in the Orel sector. The soviet news Agency Tass reported the germans Are mining roads and launching bigger counter attacks supported by tanks. The Agency claimed these attacks were repulsed with heavy losses to the germans in men and Armor. ,. In another desperate attempt to slow the russian drive the Luftwaffe has thrown All its available reserves into the Battle North of. Continued on fag 4 Aerial forces Pup dec gun positions still held bythe japs on the new Georgia Island base. Id new Guinea Allied heavy bombers made another raid on the Salamata area damaging Ai drome buildings. In the same area Allied fighters shot Down 11 japanese fighters and probably destroyed five others for the loss of one of their own. The chunking communique today reported that japanese attacks in Eastern Kuan Tsung province have been repulsed and new Delhi added that american and British aircraft based id India continue to harass the japanese in Burma. Yesterday. The Allied Pacific communique said a heavy air reconnaissance unit shot Down one of seven intercepting zero6 Over Bougainville Island in one of the widely scattered clashes. Eight More zeros fell into the sea when Allied fighters tied into a flight of 30 ene Niy dive bombers with fighter escort at Bendova. Other Allied aircraft dropped 166 tons of bombs on the Jap held base of Munda in support of ground operations while Light naval units were credited with sinking five japanese barges off Cape Cretin in new Guinea. Victims of Alaska crash identified Wash Toto a three More victims of the alaskan plane Crami which killed maj. Gen. William upshur and Marine capt. Charlie paddock have been identified by the Navy. The Pilot was Cost wander Joe de Ganahl former member of the new York Herald Tribune staff. Others were Harold Julian Morris. Radioman of. Sedar rapids a Iowa and Donald Glen Whetstone aviation machinists mate of Minerva Ohio. The sixth passenger was listed As an unidentified Anny Man. Jomes hops Iii a James Grandfather of Bob Hope and movie comedian of butt Mically ill. The elder Hope will be 160 Yean Aid next he recently was a fitted by the comedian who is visiting u. S. Troops. New York Ralph Damon has resigned As president of the Republic aviation corp., and returned to the american airlines As vice president and general manager. Damon was on leave from american airlines to help Republic get the p-47 Thunderbolt into full production. Washington a fuel administrator Harold Tokee has ordered 15 produced of soft Coal in West Virginia to divert 50,000 tons to the Jones and Laughlin steel co. The order was issued since the company a stockpiles were dangerously Low because of recent stoppages in the Pennsylvania mines their usual source of Supply. Chicago death in the electric chair was the jury s verdict for sex convict Ernest Wishon in the Holdup slaying of Joseph Schulte aged jeweler last May. The court fixed september 24 for the execution. The defense asked for a life term on the plea that Wishon grew up in the Una favourable environment of the Ozark Hills and Learned to drink hard Buquor at the age of tone. Munc1e, . Clara Edwards Mother of ten children on trial for the murder of her husband was found not guilty by a jury of Farmers which deliberated Only seven minutes. The prosecutor asked for a verdict of second degree murder. The courtroom full of women cheered when mrs. Edwards maintained that she had killed her husband in sell defense and that it was Quot gods Ayer. soldiers were killed and 14 injured when an army truck crashed through the Guardrail of the Melche Tville Bridge into the narnia River according to a press report. Those killed were pinned beneath the truck in 10 feet of water. Pour of the dead were identified As pets. George d. Cormier Everett Mam. Earl Baxter Hernando miss. Harold r. Cartwright of Ottsville pa., and Theodore a a Kates Lawrence Vancouver b. w. Service the poet who wrote Quot the go Vitany of Phi Iio grew Quot is tired of that particular poem. A Turk from a tour of Uso centers the poet said soldiers everywhere asked him to recite verses about Dan. Quot i recited it but pm Rick of it. I was risk of it m soon is i finished writing it Quot service said. Allied Force Headquarters july 27�?germany�?Ts Luftwaffe suffered another staggering defeat sunday when a formation of Raf spitfires on an offensive sweep Over the Straits of Messina shot Down 21 Ju-52 transports and eight fighter escorts headed for was the second defeat of this kind inflicted upon Xiv nazis Otoe of a lightnings destroyed an entire Fleet of Ju-52 s near the Island of Ustica. While our heavy bombers remained inactive for the second successive Day Saaf b-26 marauders. Escorted by .p-38 lightnings continued the All out attack on Italy a transportation system by hitting railway facilities in the Southern italian town of Marina Dipaola. A Large number of bombs hit among the tracks and several dropped on buildings and workshops nearby. Crew members reported a series of Large explosions. The number of enemy aircraft destroyed during operations reported yesterday was 40. Three Allied planes failed to return to their Beses. This is the most decisive score racked up by the allies in one Day of the recent Campaign. P-40 War Hawks carried their attack to Sardinia during the Day and while they found few targets on the ground for their bombing and strafing they engaged a number of enemy fighters Ard destroyed five of them. Yesterday medium bombers of the tactical air Force swept Over the northeastern sicilian towns of Milazzo and Orlando and continued their attack past Midnight on Harbor and Road objectives it was reported Here. Prom Malta came Bostons and Baltimore of the Royal air Force Sitta tin i convoys in northeastern Sicily smashing transports moving along the toads. The coastal air Force in the meantime continued their patrols without incident Allied air might concentrated on targets and installations in front of the advancing ground forces while bomber gave the italian Mainland a respite from continued Aerial bombardment in the past few Days. To Daff loading from Orlando continued on pole 4 production drop Moy delay War Chicago the lag in War production May delay the ending of the War la Gen. Brehon somervell chief of the army service forces told the Chicago association of Commerce in May and june 300,000,000 dollars Worth of military materials were not provided. As he Fudd. Quot your schedules of delivery Are As much a part of the time schedules for War As operations. And movements in Tif it somervell told the manufacturers Quot failure to meet schedules Means military fail he mid Obue artillery and Mobile anti aircraft artillery Are the biggest needs at present. By to sgt Hilary h. Lyons of amp res and stripes sta0 Wrife re prime minister Winston Curch-111 in an eagerly awaited speech before the House of commons yesterday called upon the italians to accept a a a wholesale surrender in their own Best interests and made it Clear that the allies would not bargain with marshal Pietro Bat italian Premier. Apparently selected As the official United nations spokesman on the italian crisis. Or. Churchill declared that piecemeal surrender would Benefit Only the germans. Quot the the prime minister asserted Quot naturally desire that Italy shall become a Battleground in order to keep the War away from the Reich As Long As in a speech bristling with contempt for racism but filled with expressions of sympathy for the italian masses the prime minister made repeated appeals to Italy to get Quot rid of their German taskmasters and emphasized that Germany not Italy was the allies principal foe. Italy a Reward for breaking with Germany he noted would be Quot Relief from War Freedom from servitude and respectable peace in a new and rescued europe.�?�. On the subject of the Bado Llo government the prime minister advised caution. London he said had had no overtures from the new government about which he added he knew Little or nothing. He threw out the suggestion that the Baoguo Cabinet might be Only one of a series of changes to come in italian politics. The heart of the speech the first full dress Allied comment on italian developments was the bom by advice to a let the italians Stew in their own juice for a bit Quot but or. Churchill made it Clear that if unconditional surrender was not forthcoming the allies would proceed against Italy in Fuu Force. Orders to that effect he stressed had already been Given Allied commanders. With the lid of censorship clamped Down tightly on Seething Italy Only the escaping steam of Rumos gave hint of developments within the harassed country. Many of the rumours emanating from Neutral Switzerland and Sweden had to do with the whereabouts of Benito Mussolini. One report had him under armed guard captured while seeking to flee to Germany. Another report was that he had recently deposited 50.000 Swiss francs in Davos intending to take Refuge in Switzerland from which prior to the world War. He had been expelled As a trouble maker. But these were Only rumours. For the moment the sex dictator had vanish Mckeven More thoroughly than to Folian Navy. Radio Rome yesterday announced. That Mussolini had been thrown overboard by his own party. His resignation it was said followed a session of the grand fascist Council most powerful of fascist party organizations late saturday night at the meeting Dino grand one ambassador to Britain anti formerly one of Italy a most Agres Sive fascists made the proposal that King Vittorio Emma queue personal it take Over command of Italy s arty a fascists prominent under Mussolini have taken a Back seat since marshal Bado Llo took took Over the reins of government of the 17 new Cabinet members not one was prominently identified with the vanished Duee. Most were members of the italian 8enate, a purely honorary body in which membership depends on distinction in the arts sciences or finance. Continued am Pape 4
