THIS WAS REPORTED TODAY, JULY 29, 1943:
American heavy and medium bombers struck the width of Hitler's
Europe in daylight yesterday and carried the Allied big push' in the air
through its fifth day.
The Fortresses made their deepest yet penetration of Germany, and with
the high explosives which plummeted on to Nazi targets went propaganda
leaflets addressed to the German people. It was the first announcement
that American planes were dropping leaflets on their raids.
Insistent reports that Italian delegates appointed by Marshal Badoglio
already are negotiating surrender with the Allies were heard in neutral
capitals yesterday and Swiss radio forecast "further important developments
in the next few days, with a speedy cessation of hostilities."
The assertion that Marshal Badoglio had tried without success to persuade
Germany to withdraw her troops from Italy was made today by the
German-controlled Scandinavian telegraph bureau in a message from its
Berne correspondent.
Prime Minister Winston Churchill, asked in Commons yesterday whether any
official reply had been received to repeated demands for Italian capitulation, replied:
"No official reply has been received to the message from President Roosevelt and
myself, unless the disappearance of Mussolini is to be considered as his own reply
to it.
A 100-mile per hour hurricane battered Galveston, Houston and other Texas
coastal cities last night, causing damage estimated at more than $2,000,000.
Some spots in the Galveston streets were filled with water hip-deep. Broken
power lines blacked out the entire city.
The Chillicothe Constitution-Tribune
CH1LLICOTHE. MISSOURI THURSDAY, JULY 29, 1943
FOUR MORE TOWNS
TAKEN BY AMERICAN'
CANADIAN TROOPS
Including The Vital Central
Road Junction of Leonforte
AXIS Forces Retreat
Canadian Columns Smashed
Their Way Into the City
8 Miles From Enna
STARS AND STRIPES
Daily Newspaper of U.S. Armed Forces in the European Theater of Operations
New York, N. Y.— London, England Thursday, July 29, 1943
Forts Strike Deep Into Reich
U.S. Attacks Follow
RAF's Heaviest Raid
Of War on Hamburg
American heavy and medium bombers struck the width of Hitler's
Europe in daylight yesterday and carried the Allied big push' in the air
through its fifth day.
The Fortresses made their deepest yet penetration of Germany, and with
the high explosives which plummeted on to Nazi targets went propaganda
leaflets addressed to the German people. It was the first announcement
that American planes were dropping leaflets on their raids.
The American attacks, with RAF light forces also sweeping against the
Luftwaffe defenses through the day, came short hours after the heaviest
raid in history had heaped another 2,600 tons of blast and fire on the
flaming inferno which a week ago was Hamburg, Germany's biggest port and
second largest city.
Targets for the Fortresses air fleets yesterday were the fighter aircraft factories
at Kassel, beyond the Ruhr, and an assembly plant at Oschersleben, New
Magdeburg, 290 miles southwest of Berlin.
Twenty-three heavy bombers were reported missing.
The USAAF medium bombers attacked coke ovens at Zeebrugge, Belgium, in
their fourth straight day of raiding without loss.
Eighth Fighter Command Thunderbolts joined RAF and Allied Spitfires and light
bombers in the day-long time-table of destruction. One fighter was reported
missing.
Neutrals Hear Peace Talks On
Berlin Says
Its Fate Lies
With Rome s
Frontier Reports Persist
Negotiations Proceed
Inside Vatican
Insistent reports that Italian delegates appointed by Marshal Badoglio
already are negotiating surrender with the Allies were heard in neutral
capitals yesterday and Swiss radio forecast "further important developments
in the next few days, with a speedy cessation of hostilities."
Reports from the Italian-Swiss frontier said the new Italian Prime
Minister held preliminary talks with U.S. and British diplomatic representatives
at the Vatican Monday, and soon afterward sent a civilian delegation,
accompanied by a general, to discuss terms.
Berlin radio, hitherto inclined to take the line that Mussolini's fall would have
no effect on the Axis war effort, finally
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Nazi Source Says Italy
Asked Germans to Go
STOCKHOLM, July 28 (UP)—
The assertion that Marshal Badoglio had tried without success to persuade
Germany to withdraw her troops from Italy was made today by the
German-controlled Scandinavian telegraph bureau in a message from its
Berne correspondent.
This is the first indication from any Nazi controlled source that the new
regime in Italy wished to cut adrift from the Axis and the war.
The same report said kalian negotiations to this end with German
Ambassador von Mackensen failed because the Germans insisted on
defending the line formed by .theRiver Po at the top of the Italian leg.
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conceded that Germany's fate was
. "directly involved" in Italy's. All Germans, soldiers, civilians and war
workers, were "hanging on to their radio sets," it said, "waiting for indication of
the course events are going to take." From Berlin itself came the suggestion
that the newly appointed Italian Foreign Minister, Guariglia, had been chosen by
Badoglio because of his connections with Britain, as the best possible contact with
the Allies.
The theory was radioed from Berlin by the correspondent of the Spanish daily
Ya. He also reported that "German official sources not only energetically
rejected"* the idea of Italian surrender, but "left it completely out of the discussion."
Rome Ignores
Allied Demands
Prime Minister Winston Churchill, asked in Commons yesterday whether any
official reply had been received to repeated demands for Italian capitulation, replied:
"No official reply has been received to the message from President Roosevelt and
myself, unless the disappearance of Mussolini is to be considered as his own reply
to it." Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden, in answer to a question in Commons, made
it clear the Allies 'would not return to Italy all her North African possessions in
the event of an "honorable capitulation."
$2,000,OOODamageCaused
By Hurricane in Texas
HOUSTON. Tex., July 28 (AP)—
A 100-mile per hour hurricane battered Galveston, Houston and other Texas
coastal cities last night, causing damage estimated at more than $2,000,000.
Some spots in the Galveston streets were filled with water hip-deep. Broken
power lines blacked out the entire city.
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