Current Events June 14, 1943

THIS WAS REPORTED TODAY, JUNE 14, 1943:

Italy lost her third island outpost in the central Mediterranean in three

days when a British destroyer accepted the bloodless surrender

of Linosa Sunday and fleets of American bombers

and fighters began switching their knockout punch to Sicily.

    KINGSPORT NEWS

                          KINGSPORT, TENN., MON., JUNE 14, 1943

ITALY LOSES THIRD ISLAND OUTPOST

Allies Switch

Knockout Punch

Towards Sicily

Allied Headquarters in North Africa—(AP)—Italy lost

her third island outpost in the central Mediterranean in three

days when a British destroyer accepted the bloodless surrender

of Linosa Sunday and fleets of American bombers

and fighters began switching their knockout punch to Sicily.

Without a shell being fired or a bomb dropped, the panicky gar-

rison of 140 Italian soldiers and sailors raised white flags on the

little speck of land 105 miles south of Sicily and from the bridge of

his speedy gray warship, the destroyer Nubian, Commander J. R. J.

Tyrwhitt accepted the enemy capitulation.