Saturday, August 20, 2011

Current Events August 1, 1943;

THIS WAS REPORTED TODAY, AUGUST 1, 1943:
Jugoslav guerrillas, slashing through Italian lines, have fought their
way into the Udine district of northwestern Italy while other
sizable forces of Gen. Draja Mikhnilovltch's patriot army have begun
n strong attack against German troops along the old Austrian-Croat
frontier, a Jugoslav spokesman said tonight.

Allied radio broadcasts promising a new bombing offensive against Italian cities brought quick and mounting pressure against the wavering government of Premier Marshal Pietro Badoglio tonight and unconfirmed reports reached Madrid that the Italian admiralty had ordered full heads of steam maintained on all warships so they could sail from Italian ports at an instant's notice.

The next 60 days may tell whether the Allies can
bring the war in Europe to an end this year or whether Adolf Hitler can force
the German people through another bitter winter with defeat and memories of 1918 staring them in the face. The sharpest official curb on over-optimism persists.

American bombers dropped 224,000 pounds of explosives yesterday
in two very heavy attacks on Japanese forward positions in the
New Gcorgia-Kolombangara area of the Solomon Islands, it was announced
today.

            Nevada State Journal
                RENO, NEVADA, SUNDAY MORNING, AUGUST 1. 1943

ITALY INVADED BY JOUGOSLAVS
PATRIOT ARMY
ENTERS UDINE
IN NORTHWEST
Albanians Reconquer
Half of Their
Country
BY JOHN A. P ARRIS
United Press Staff Correspondent
LONDON, July 31. (U.P)—
Jugoslav guerrillas, slashing through Italian lines, have fought their
way into the Udine district of northwestern Italy while other
sizable forces of Gen. Draja Mikhnilovltch's patriot army have begun
n strong attack against German troops along the old Austrian-Croat
frontier, a Jugoslav spokesman said tonight.
A Stockholm report said revolting Albanians have reconquered
half their country and were driving toward the coast,
meeting little resistance from withdrawing Italian Iroops.
German tank forces and Infantry were reported pouring into the
Balkans to reinforce garrisons from which Italian troops were
understood to be withdrawing. The German Balkan forces, under
Field Marshal Erwin Rommel, were taking hasty precautions to
cope with patriot uprisings or a possible Allied invasion.
                                                    Disarm Italians

Italian Fleet Under Steam, Set To Flee
Fear Germans Will Seize
Warships If Peace Made
LONDON, Aug. 1. (U.P.)—Allied radio broadcasts promising a new bombing offensive against Italian cities brought quick and mounting pressure against the wavering government of Premier Marshal Pietro Badoglio tonight and unconfirmed reports reached Madrid that the Italian admiralty had ordered full heads of steam maintained on all warships so they could sail from Italian ports at an instant's notice. Reports were reaching Bern and Madrid from Italy on new riots,, set off in such major cities as Milan, Rome, Florence, and Naples by the announcement of the Allied North African command that Badoglio was stalling in peace negotiations for the benefit of the Germans and a new bombing offensive against Italy was about to start,
The report concerning the Italian fleet was unconfirmed as were most others seeping out
of Italy. It indicated that the Italians were afraid the Germans would seize the warships if
Italy capitulated and s;»id a double guard had been placed over all of them. A clandestine radio station wns herrcl in Bern warning the Italians that Badoglio was "another Laval" who would turn the fleet over to Hitler. The station said it was broadcasting from Leghorn.
Envoys in Africa
Madrid reports said that peace emissaries of Badoglio were already in Africa and had made contact, with Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, the Allied commander in chief.
The Allied announcement of a new bombing offensive against Italy was broadcast repeatedly by Radio Algiers.
"Six days have passed since Mussolini's fall," an Allied
spokesman said In repeated broadcasts to Italy over Radio
Algiers. "Instead of acting quickly the Badoglio government
played for time and thus helped tbe Germans."
"We give you a solemn warning:
The respite is over. The bombing of military objectives
will resume. Keep away from factories, rail lines and German
barracks."
Although conditions in Italy still were obscured by censorship,
reports reaching Madrid from France said emissaries fully empowered
by Badoglio to discuss peace terms, had arrived in north
Africa aboard a special Italian plane and had established contactwith Eisenhower.
                                                                  Fear Britain

Next 60 Days Will Decide Whether Allies
Can Wind Up War in Europe This Year
LONDON, July 31. (UP.)—The next 60 days may tell whether the Allies can
bring the war in Europe to an end this year or whether Adolf Hitler can force
the German people through another bitter winter with defeat and memories of 1918staring them in the face. The sharpest official curb on over-optimism persists. But private opinion in ever widening circle of military sources holds that the basic situation now contains the possibilities of a quick defeat for Germany. These sources point out that Germany, on the 29th anniversary of the start of World War One, is in a situation dramatically paralleling that of the midsummer of 1918.
They reason that if the Germans did not desire to spare 30 or 40 divisions to defend
Italy by the same token they might not feel called on to defend the Balkans,,
for example, or Norway.

HEAVY RAIDS
ON JAPANESE
IN SOLOMONS
224,000 Pounds of
Explosives Are
Poured Down
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS,
Australia, Sunday, Aug. l.(UP) —
American bombers dropped 224,000 pounds of explosives yesterday
in two very heavy attacks on Japanese forward positions in the
New Gcorgia-Kolombangara area of the Solomon Islands, it was announced
today.
Flying Fortresses, Billy Mitchell medium bombers, Dauntless dive
bombers and Avenger torpedo planes, with a strong fighter escort,
dropped five tons of bombs on enemy camps and positions at the
Villa airdrome and Stanmore plantation of Kolombangara Island.
The raid was a series of coordinated attacks and although there
was heavy anti-aircraft fire all planes returned safely.
                                                                   Drive Off Zeros

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