Current Events August 31, 1943;

THIS WAS REPORTED TODAY, AUGUST 31, 1943:

A vast encirclement movement in which Red Army mechanized divisions and Cossack cavalry drove to the Azov Sea coast 28 miles west of Taganrog led to the fall of that Nazi anchor city and the freeing of more than 150 settlements yesterday, the Russians announced today

Danish troops were reported today to have fought until their ammunition was exhausted against the German divisions bolstering the Nazi military dictatorship which has taken over the Government of Denmark and arrested its leaders. (The fate of the survivors was not stated in this dispatch. Presumably the Danish survivors
were then interned.)

Japanese defenders of the Salamaua air base in New Guinea, making another of their desperate stands in contrast to their flight from New Georgia, have forced Allied troops to fall back slightly at some points.
With the just-launched aircraft carrier Hornet illustrating his words, Navy Secretary Frank Knox promised today that the Japanese were going to get volume delivery of the bombs dropped on Tokyo "as a small sample" last year.

          The Titusville Herald
           TITUSVILLE, PA., TUESDAY MORNING, AUGUST 31, 1943

Reds Take Taganrog on Azov Sea,
German Right Wing in Jeopardy;
Danish Cabinet Resigns, Arrested
Great Area
Is Regained
Bv Russians
Encircling Movement
Apparently Crumbles
Nazis' Southern Anchor.
150 VILLAGES FREED
By The Associated Press
LONDON, Tuesday, Aug. 31.—
A vast encirclement movement in which Red Army mechanized divisions and Cossack cavalry drove to the Azov Sea coast 28 miles west of Taganrog led to the fall of that Nazi anchor city and the freeing of more than 150 settlements yesterday, the Russians announced today.
Horsemen and motor-borne troops were reported to have 'knifed from Donetsko-Amvrosievka, 40 miles northwest of Taganrog, to Veselo-Voznesen- 28 miles west of Taganrog, to fix a pincer jaw complementing that of the Russian lines east of the town. Then the pincer closed.
The Nazi stronghold of Stalino, 70 miles northwest of Taganrog was threatened. The surprise smash left the
entire German right wing in Jeopardy and apparently crumbling. The Russian communique, recorded
here by the Soviet monitor from a Moscow broadcast, said that remnants of the Taganrog garrison "are being
wiped out."
                                                          Report 5,000 Nazis Killed

Battles Rage
In Some Parts
Of Denmark
Stern Measures Taken
To Down Rebellion,
Many Reported Killed
SOME DANES ESCAPE
BULLETIN
STOCKHOLM, Tuesday, Aug,. 31.
(AP)
Danish troops were reported today to have fought until their ammunition was exhausted against the German divisions bolstering the Nazi military dictatorship which has taken over the Government of Denmark and arrested its leaders. (The fate of the survivors was not stated in this dispatch. Presumably the Danish survivors
were then interned.)
                                                                  By The Associated Pres
STOCKHOLM, Aug. 30. —
Danish troops still battled the Germans in at least one Danish zone today as the Nazi military dictatorship held King Christian X and most members of Premier Erik Scavenius' Government under some form of arrest.
Both the resignation and detention of the Scavenius cabinet were announced tonight. The Germans had seized all civil and court functions in Denmark and warned that courts martial would punish disobedient Danes, with penalties including death.

Allies Forced
Back Slightly
AtSalamaua
But U. S. Forces Land
Unopposed 011 Arundel,
West of New Georgia
By The Associated Frits
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN THE
SOUTHWEST PACIFIC, Aug. 30.—
Japanese defenders of the Salamaua air base in New Guinea, making another of their desperate stands in contrast to their flight from New Georgia, have forced Allied troops to fall back slightly at some points.
This reverse, although minor, is the first reported by Gen era!-Douglas Mac- Arthur's headquarters since the offensives in New Guinea and the central Solomons started last June 30. "*In the Solomons, however, American forces continued then- progress with an unopposed landing of Arundel island, until recently occupied by the enemy. Ground units, which went, ashore Friday, were reported to be consolidating.
Arundel lies just west of New Georgia island, which is completely in American hands since the Japanese evacuation of Bairoko harbor last week. Occupation of the tiny island provides positions from which artillery can shell the Vila airdrome on Kolombangara island, three miles north.
The Japanese defense of Salamaua, where Allied troops have been closing in, is typical of the fierce resistance
they put up at Guadalcanal in the southern Solomons and on the Papuan peninsula of New Guinea • several
months ago. The Allies took those places only after exterminating the enemy.
Air units, supporting the American and Australian soldiers at Salamaua, made low-level attacks against the
harbor there. Flying Fortresses, also dropped 2 tons of bombs on Voco Point near Lae, 20 miles northeast of Salamaua. Twenty barges and three jetties were destroyed there.

Raid on Tokyo
'Only Sample,'
Sec. Knox Says
NEWPORT NEWS, Va.. Aug. 30.—A/P)
—With the just-launched aircraft carrier Hornet illustrating his words, Navy Secretary Frank Knox promised today that the Japanese were going to get volume delivery of the bombs dropped on Tokyo "as a small sample" last year.
Speaking at launching ceremonies that were delayed for 45 minutes by improper working of the hydraulic
launching mechanism, Knox praised the valor of the late flat-top Hornet that mothered Doolittle's bomber brood and later was sunk in the Santa Cruz islands, and then said: "And that first raid on Tokyo, I can assure you, is only a small sample of far-bigger raids to come."
The bubbles of champagne were still glistening on the Hornet's sleek bows when the Navy Secretary hinted at the ship's new mission.

Current Events August 30, 1943;

THIS WAS REPORTED TODAY, AUGUST 30, 1943:
War In Brief
DENMAKK — Danes flee as Nazis set up military rule.
RUSSIA—Taganrog on Sea of Azov captured. Nazi lines in Donets imperiled.
MEDITERRANEAN — Railway center near Rome battered by Yank airmen.
PACIFIC—Arundel island off New Georgia and near Jap base of Vila occupied by U. S. forces.
SWEDEN—Tension grows as Germans reject Swedish protest over sinking of fishing boats.
BULGARIA—Anti-German feeling increases following death of king.
ROME HAS ALERT
NEW YORK, Aug. 30 (INS).—The Italian capital of Rome has an hour-long morning, the reported.-
air raid alert the Budapest radio r
BRAZILIANS SINK SUB
RIO DE JANEIRO, Aug. 30 (UP—Sinking of a German submarin by the Brazilian Air force was announced officially last night.      

             Russians Capture Tanagorag On Sea of Azov
              The Port Arthur News
                    PORT ARTHUR, TEXAS, MONDAY, AUGUST 30, 1943.
DANES FLEE AS NAZIS SEIZE KINGDOM
Military Rule
Is Instituted;
King Prisoner
Huge Fires Blaze In Copenhagen Harbor As
45 Naval Vessels Are Scuttled; Several
Ships Make Escape To Sweden
By John H. Colburn
STOCKHOLM, Aug. 30 (AP)—
Big fires blazed fiercely today among the scuttled hulks of, Denmark's naval vessels in Copenhagen harbor, and offshore Nazi patrol boats and planes shot at Danes fleeing a new German military dictatorship clamped upon the rebellious kingdom.
                                            REFUGEES STREAM INTO SWEDEN
Refugees streaming into Sweden said scores of persons drowned as the Nazi gunners sank many small motorboats, sailboats and fishing smacks in the Oeresund, the narrow stretch of water between Denmark and Sweden.
The Germans ignored the usual Copenhagen blackout during the night. -Street lights blazed  nightly as patrols In tanks and rmored cars toured the city enforcing the martial law decreed by the German military commander
who had interned the aged King Christian X in his castle and set up Nazi rule to replace that of the reigned
Danish government.
The fires in. the harbor area could be seen' from the Swedish coast; A series of deafening exploions set them off at dawn ycs-
____________________________________________________________________________________
LONDON, Aug. 30 (INS).— 
The German-controlled Oslo .radio announced today that King Christian
X of Denmark had "abdicated."The story was without confirmation
from other sources.
____________________________________________________________________________________
erday as Danish naval forces sent t.he greater part of their small navy to the bottom.
                                                     Climax To Disorders

NAZI LINES
IN DONETS
IMPERILED
New Soviet Advances
In Kharkov Area
Are Reported
LONDON, Aug. 30 (AP)
Premier Josef Stalin announced the capture of Taganrog, ...southern anchor of the 1500- mile Russian front, today in a special order of the day. The Germans earlier today admitted evacuation of the city.
                                                               Follows Fierce Battle
Stalin said the capture was the result of a fierce engagement in -which the Russians, routed the Germans. The Germans said the town was evacuated after, they had destroyed the town and harbor installations.
Capture of the southern flank of the Russian front indicated the Nazis' entire southern front positions were crumbling. Stalin, whose, order of the day was broadcast by the Moscow radio and recorded by the Associated Press, said the new victory was achieved as a result of a bold maneuver by Soviet cavalry and mechanized formations which broke through to the rear of the enemy troops.
                                                                  Stalino Threatened
20 ENEMY
AIRCRAFT
DESTROYED
British And American
Airmen Again Raid
Naples Area
By Reynolds Packard
A L L I E D HEADQUARTERS,
North Africa, Aug. 30. (UP).—
American heavy bombers wrecked the Orte railroad junction 40 miles north of Rome yesterday in the third
straight day of attacks designed to smash the capital's communications with the rest of Italy, was revealed today.
Naples Area Pounded
While the B-17's concentrated on Rome's railway arteries, U. S, medium bombers renewed their assault
on Torre Annuziata, coast railway center on the Bay of Naples south of. Mt. Vesuvius, yesterday and RAF night bombers follwed through with another raid last night.
American and British medium bombers and U. S. fighter-bombers raked the Italian toe with bombs and bullets, blasting gun positions in the Reggio Calabria-San Gioanni areas across Messina Strait from Sicily road and railway communications at Cosenza and rail yards at Lamezia with "good results." American A-36 bomber scored a direct bomb hit on the battrcd Angitola bridge.
A british cruiser and a destroyer joined in the bombardment of southern Italy by shelling a shore battery near Cape- Pellaro.
                                                         20 Planes Shot Down

ALLIED FLIERS
 POUND BURMA
•• NEW DELHI Aug. 30 UP).—
America.. ...... bombers droppED more than 19 tons of bombs on Japanese-occupied Myitkyjna
northern Burma yesterday whil RAF fighter patrols sank more
than 60 loaded Japanese sampans in the Irrawaddy and Hunters bay area, Allied communiques announced today.
In the American attack, a 10th U. S. Army Air force communique said, heavy destruction was caused
to an enemy-occupied building. At Kyaungin on the lower Irrawaddy the RAF raiders struck at railway
buildings which were set on fire. -All aircraft returned safely, the
"bulletin said.

Current Events August 30, 1943;

THIS WAS REPORTED TODAY, AUGUST 30, 1943:

Big fires blazed fiercely today among the scuttled hulks of, Denmark's naval vessels in Copenhagen harbor, and offshore Nazi patrol boats and planes shot at Danes fleeing a new German military dictatorship clamped upon the rebellious kingdom.

Premier Josef Stalin announced the capture of Taganrog, ...southern anchor of the 1500- mile Russian front, today in a special order of the day. The Germans earlier today admitted evacuation of the city

American heavy bombers wrecked the Orte railroad junction 40 miles north of Rome yesterday in the third

straight day of attacks designed to smash the capital's communications with the rest of Italy, was revealed today

       Russians Capture Tanagorag On Sea of Azov
              The Port Arthur News
                    PORT ARTHUR, TEXAS, MONDAY, AUGUST 30, 1943.
DANES FLEE AS NAZIS SEIZE KINGDOM
Military Rule
Is Instituted;
King Prisoner
Huge Fires Blaze In Copenhagen Harbor As
45 Naval Vessels Are Scuttled; Several
Ships Make Escape To Sweden
By John H. Colburn
STOCKHOLM, Aug. 30 (AP)—
Big fires blazed fiercely today among the scuttled hulks of, Denmark's naval vessels in Copenhagen harbor, and offshore Nazi patrol boats and planes shot at Danes fleeing a new German military dictatorship clamped upon the rebellious kingdom.
                                            REFUGEES STREAM INTO SWEDEN
Refugees streaming into Sweden said scores of persons drowned as the Nazi gunners sank many small motorboats, sailboats and fishing smacks in the Oeresund, the narrow stretch of water between Denmark and Sweden.
The Germans ignored the usual Copenhagen blackout during the night. -Street lights blazed  nightly as patrols In tanks and rmored cars toured the city enforcing the martial law decreed by the German military commander
who had interned the aged King Christian X in his castle and set up Nazi rule to replace that of the reigned
Danish government.
The fires in. the harbor area could be seen' from the Swedish coast; A series of deafening exploions set them off at dawn ycs-
____________________________________________________________________________________
LONDON, Aug. 30 (INS).— 
The German-controlled Oslo .radio announced today that King Christian
X of Denmark had "abdicated."The story was without confirmation
from other sources.
____________________________________________________________________________________
erday as Danish naval forces sent t.he greater part of their small navy to the bottom.
                                                     Climax To Disorders

NAZI LINES
IN DONETS
IMPERILED
New Soviet Advances
In Kharkov Area
Are Reported
LONDON, Aug. 30 (AP)
Premier Josef Stalin announced the capture of Taganrog, ...southern anchor of the 1500- mile Russian front, today in a special order of the day. The Germans earlier today admitted evacuation of the city.
                                                               Follows Fierce Battle
Stalin said the capture was the result of a fierce engagement in -which the Russians, routed the Germans. The Germans said the town was evacuated after, they had destroyed the town and harbor installations.
Capture of the southern flank of the Russian front indicated the Nazis' entire southern front positions were crumbling. Stalin, whose, order of the day was broadcast by the Moscow radio and recorded by the Associated Press, said the new victory was achieved as a result of a bold maneuver by Soviet cavalry and mechanized formations which broke through to the rear of the enemy troops.
                                                                  Stalino Threatened
20 ENEMY
AIRCRAFT
DESTROYED
British And American
Airmen Again Raid
Naples Area
By Reynolds Packard
A L L I E D HEADQUARTERS,
North Africa, Aug. 30. (UP).—
American heavy bombers wrecked the Orte railroad junction 40 miles north of Rome yesterday in the third
straight day of attacks designed to smash the capital's communications with the rest of Italy, was revealed today.
Naples Area Pounded
While the B-17's concentrated on Rome's railway arteries, U. S, medium bombers renewed their assault
on Torre Annuziata, coast railway center on the Bay of Naples south of. Mt. Vesuvius, yesterday and RAF night bombers follwed through with another raid last night.
American and British medium bombers and U. S. fighter-bombers raked the Italian toe with bombs and bullets, blasting gun positions in the Reggio Calabria-San Gioanni areas across Messina Strait from Sicilyroad and railway communications at Cosenza and railroad camp yards at Lamezia with "good results." American A-36 bomber scored a direct bomb hit on the battcrcd Angitola bridge.

Current Events August 29, 1943;

THIS WAS REPORTED TODAY AUGUST 29, 1943
The RAF bomber' command reaching deep into Germany poured a colossal hail of blockbuster" bombs last night on Nuernberg, Nazi pageant city and manufacturing center, and overwhelmed German defenses with a shattering weight of exploding steel.

King , Christian XI of Denmark -was^ reported' today to have, threatened to abdicate if the Danish* government accepts a German ultimatum placing: the kingdom under full 'Nazi military control.


For the; second time Japanese -troops have quit fighting and. run away—this time from Bairoko harbor  on New Georgia island in the central Solomons.  But unlike, their sneak 'from Kiska through the cold :  fog of

the Aleutians, their second''evacuation cost them hundreds of soldiers.

                                    THE SUNDAY
       NEWS and                                   TRIBUNE
             JEFFERSON CITY:MISSOURI,. SUNDAY, AUGUST .29, 1943

Nuernberg Bombed by
RAF in Greatest Raid;
Difficulty in Denmark
 Colossal Hail of Block-Busters
Loosed on German Pageant City
In One of Greatest Air Assaults
33 Bombers Lost in Attack; 
Enemy Airmen in
Fierce Resistance Are Overwhelmed; Assault
Tops 12 Hours of Constant raids on NazisBy GLADWIN HILL
LONDON, Aug. 28.—(AP)—
 The RAF bomber' command reaching deep into Germany poured a colossal hail of blockbuster" bombs last night on Nuernberg, Nazi pageant city and manufacturing center, and overwhelmed German defenses with a shattering weight of exploding steel.
The bomb tonnage in this second saturation blow of the week—following up the Monday night assault on Berlin was not disclosed but it was the greatest bomber fleet ever to (illegible)fly such close formation and so low. In total strength, however, indications were that it ranked under the heaviest armadas ever blasting at Germany.

Political Crises
Seen in 'Model
Protectorate'
Report Prime
Minister's Gov't.
Has Resigned 
.Bulletin
STOCKHOLM, Sunday, Aug.29.— (AP)—
King , Christian XI of Denmark -was^ reported' today to have, threatened to abdicate if the Danish* government accepts a German ultimatum placing: the kingdom under full 'Nazi military control.
Provisions of 'the ultimatum, brought hack from Berlin  by German Minister Werner Best, were said to have included proyisions for a state of siege, military tribunals empowered to inflict the death penalty on
saboteurs, a ban on ' strikes, a general curfew, complete Nazi control of the Danish press, and imposition of a heavy fine on the, city of Odense where the wave of rebellion originated

Japs Desert
Bairoko Harbor
In Solomons
Evacuation
Costs Enemy
Many Soldiers
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN
THE SOUTHWEST -PACIFIC Aug. 28—(AP)—
For the; second time Japanese -troops have quit fighting and. run away—this time from Bairoko harbor  on New Georgia island in the central Solomons.  But unlike, their sneak 'from Kiska through the cold :  fog of
the Aleutians, their second''evacuation cost them hundreds of soldiers. The liquidation of the:last enemy garrison on. New ; Georgia last Thursday >. was announced tersely-in today's communique from Gen. Douglas;  MacArthur.
.Details were supplied"by officers of the south' Pacific naval forces; American' troops., have been closing in on;, Bairoko'since they captured the - Munda airdrome, ten -miles to the. south, on Aug: 15. The only, resistance: at -the end came from  few; Japanese stragglers. The. others ..!had.: fled, or lost their lives in an attempt to reach Vila' on Kolombangafa 'island across the narrow Kula Gulf
                                                                 Hundreds, Killed

Current Events August 28, 1943;

THIS WAS REPORTED TODAY AUGUST 28, 1943:
American and Allied bombers and l i g h t e r s hurtled in relays across the Channel  yesterday in the fourth
straight day of unrelenting -attack on Luftwaff installations. While the raiders were taking another big bite out of the Nazis' a i r - defense against invasion, first-hand reports began to come out of the Reich itself, telling in detail the devastation and terror left by last 1oiHkiy night's RAF attack on Berlin.

Strong forces of heavy and medium bombers, dumping thousands of fragmentation bombs and tons of explosives. renewed the Allied assault on kcy airfields near Naples, yesterday's communique disclosed. Fresh attacks were made on the coast of Italy's "toe" by British warship

The Russians launched a new offensive yesterday, this time west and southwest of Orel, an area which had been quiet following the capture of that city several days ago

Much of Denmark remained in a state of emergency today as the Danish police appeared to have throttled demonstrations in Copenhagen with mass arrests. Danes were warned by the police they faced a two-year pri-son term if convicted of rioting.
Finnish political leaders, advocating moves for a separate peace with Russia, have warned President Ryti that unless foreign policy is changed "Finland is sliding towards a dangerous path for her future, perhaps a
f a t a l position." the Finnish government disclosed today. 


           THE STARS AND STRIPES
          Daily Newspaper of U.S. Armed Forces in the European Theater of Operations
                       New York, N.Y.— London, England Saturday, Aug. 28, 1943

     Luftwaffe Bases Hit Fourth Straight Day

B26s Blast
Foe's Fields
Of Defense
First Berlin Eye-Witness
Accounts Say Damage
Great, 5,000 Killed
American and Allied bombers and l i g h t e r s hurtled in relays across the Channel  yesterday in the fourth
straight day of unrelenting -attack on Luftwaff installations. While the raiders were taking another big bite out of the Nazis' a i r - defense against invasion, first-hand reports began to come out of the Reich itself, telling in detail the devastation and terror left by last 1oiHkiy night's RAF attack on Berlin.
With casualties in the German capital estimated at more than 5.000 killed and 25,100 injured, and w i t h  tens of thousands-aid to be evacuated or fleeing of their own accord from Berlin, neutral sources claimed the German government was being shifted from the battered city to dispersal areas in the deep interior.
                                                         Aek-Ack Nearly Licked
A n t i - a i r c r a f t defenses throughout the fire- and blast-stricken c i ty have been reduced to near-impoiency by the weight of the night attack, refugees reaching Stockiholm. Berne and oilier neutral cities claimed.

Bombers Strike
Italian Airports;
Coast Is Shelled
Planes 011 Fields Blasted:
'Toe' Communications
Hit from Sea
Strong forces of heavy and medium bombers, dumping thousands of fragmentation bombs and tons of explosives. renewed the Allied assault on kcv airfields near Naples, yesterday's communique disclosed. Fresh attacks were made on the coast of Italy's "toe" by British warships.
Fortresses escorted by Lightnings heavily damaged Capua airfield 15 miles north of Naples Thursday. In spite of a great running dogfight with 40 o,r 50 enemy lighters from the target to the coast, many grounded aircraft were destroyed and several lires were started.
Pilots said strings of bombs covered the field and dispersal area and one hangar was set ablaze. Fort gunners shot down seven Messerschmitts and a Macchi-Lightnings got four others.
North of Naples, Marauders and Mitchells attacked the airdrome and auxiliary landing ground at Grattanice
with Lightning escort, while other Marauders pounded the railway junction at Locri. 22 miles northeast of Cape Spartivento in the Italian "toe."
A.ir attacks by Bostons and Mustangs upon Reggio and Warhawk sweeps over Sardinia carried on the daylight offensive Thursday without a break, and at night RAF Wellingtons droned back to Naples to blast once again the important railway yards at Bagnoli, in the city's suburbs.
Seven Allied planes were lost in all operations.

New Offensive
On Orel Front
Gen. Yon Mannstein Hurls
Nazi Reserves Into
Poltava Battle
By the United Press
The Russians launched a new offensive yesterday, this time west and southwest of Orel, an area which had been quiet following the capture of that city several days ago.
Moscow made no mention of it. and the fact that the Germans rushed to announce it in their communique may be the prelude to further admissions of withdrawals, as it was at Kharkov. Berlin said that the a t t a c k was accompanied by powerful air s t r e n g t h , but that it did not succeed in breaking through the German lines.
Elsewhere, the main fighting was around Kharkov and in the Donetz Basin. TheGermans are still bringing up reserves to try and save Poltava and thus prevent one of their main lines into the Donetz being cut. The Rtissians. however, advanced from three to four miles again.
                                                                         Nazis Gamble All

Mass Arrests in Danish Riots;
Peace Move Grows-in Finland
STOCKHOLM, Aug. 27 (AP)—
Much of Denmark remained in a state of emergency today as the Danish police appeared to have throttled demonstrations in Copenhagen with mass arrests. Danes were warned by the police they faced a two-year pri-son term if convicted of rioting.
At least 120 persons were arrested by the Danish police yesterday afternoon as they broke up. with the aid of German soldiers, a riot in the Raad-Iiuspladsen in the center of Copenhagen.
An undetermined number of persons were reported injured. It was the second successive day when
large crowds had demonstrated there, while sabotage, general strikes and clashes continued to spread.
Finn Peace Move Grows
STOCKHOLM. Aug. 27 (AP) 
Finnish political leaders, advocating moves for a separate peace with Russia, have warned President Ryti that unless foreign policy is changed "Finland is sliding towards a dangerous path for her future, perhaps a
f a t a l position." the Finnish government disclosed today.
Continuing and progressive deterioration of relations with the Limited States which occurred recently has produced especially great -concern among the people." said the petition which was submitted ten days ago to Ryti by 33 prominent members of various political parties.

Current Events August 27, 1943

THIS WAS REPORTED TODAY AUGUST 27, 1943
  In one of the most daring raids of the war. roaring swarms of American Lightnings hedge-hopped across
I t a l y yesterday completely surprising the ground defenses of Foggia airdrome from such a low level that fleeing Axis ground crews threw stones and fired revolvers at the raiders. 

  A great tank battle raged today north and northwest of Poltava as the Red Army drove deep into the Ukraine, one-third the distance from Kharkov to Kiev. At one point Russian forces were only 80 miles from the Dnieper River--farther west than they have been since the luiae German advance in 1941 

Allied fighters and bombers, smashing enemy installations in Germany and occupied France by day and night, struck across the Channel yesterday for the third day in a row hammering home new blows at Nazi airfields and industries      

            THE STARS AND STRIPES
          Daily Newspaper of U.S. Armed Forces in the European Theater of Operations
                  New York, N.Y.—London, England Friday, Aug: 27, 1943

Lightnings Skim Low
 Across Italy to Lead
Big Attack on Foggia
Italians Toss Rocks,
Shoot Revolvers;
Forts, Libs Follow
By Relman Morin
Associated  Press War Correspondent
ALLIED HQ, North Africa. Aug. 26
In one of the most daring raids of the war. roaring swarms of American Lightnings hedge-hopped across
I t a l y yesterday completely surprising the ground defenses of Foggia airdrome from such a low level that
fleeing Axis ground crews threw stones and fired revolvers at the raiders.
The Lightnings, specially equipped for a long-distance run, were followed by huge formations of Flying Fortresses, which blasted the airfield with heavy bombs, and Liberators, which battered Foggia's railway
yards.
The daring planning of the raid and its spectacular success won the DFC for its organizer. As Lt. Col. George Mac- Nicholl stepped from his P38 on his return. Lt. Gen. Carl A. Spaatz awaited him with the medal in his hand.
The great naval port of Taranto, where most of the Italian fleet is at anchor, also was smashed in the 24-hour offensive. RAF and RCAF Wellingtons, loaded w i t h two-ton block-busters, pounded the port before dawn.
                                                              Peace Talks in Lisbon

Soviet Advance
Threatens Nazi
Base in Ukraiine
Poltava Tank Battle Rages
As Russians Drive
Towards Kiev
MOSCOW. Aug. 26—
A great tank battle raged today north and northwest of Poltava as the Red Army drove deep into the Ukraine, one-third the distance from Kharkov to Kiev. At one point Russian forces were only 80 miles from the Dnieper River--farther west than they have been since the luiae German advance in 1941.
Striking across the broad plains. 40 miles north of Poltava, the Russians appeared to be making a becline.flor
Kiev. 170 miles 10 the west.
If Poltava is occupied by the Russians, the German line from Kiev to Stalino and the Donetz Basin will be cut and the German forces in the Basin will be threatened.
At one point the Russians today advanced through Opashyna to only 20 miles from Poltava. Yesterday's capture of Zenkov has given the Russians a road l i n k i n g the two tank columns converging on Poltava.
Big German forces have been brought up to protect the railroad linking Kiev, the capital city of the Ukraine, with Poltava and Stalino.

AlliesPound
Nazi Fields
For 3rd Day
No Let-up in Air Offensive
As RAF Mosquitoes
Hit Berlin Again
Allied fighters and bombers, smashing enemy installations in Germany and occupied France by day and night, struck across the Channel yesterday for the third day in a row hammering home new blows at Nazi airfields and industries.
The new raids kept up a punishing tattoo on German installations that has seen Berlin attacked three times
in as many nights, once on Monday night by massive RAF- formations and again on Tuesday and Wednesday nights by swift RAF Mosquitoes.
Yesterday's Allied smashes across the Channel marked the third daylight blow in a row from British bases. Twenty-four hours earlier USAAF Marauders, raiding without loss, attacked the German airdrome at Tricqueville and the German power station near Rouen, both in France. Crews said both targets were satisfactorily bombed.
                                                            Fires Still Burning in Berlin

We Can't Allow Japanese To Rebuild, Wallace Says 
WASHINGTON, Aug. 26 (UP)—
Japanese must not be allowed to rebuild their war machine, and therefore must inot be given the same considerations as other countries after the war. Vice  President Henry Wallace declared today. 
We must think twice about giving them the equal rights and opportunities to raw materials and trade. We cannot take chances and allow them to rebuild their war machine," Wallace said.
___________________________________________________________________________________
; No Decision on Rome Yet
| WASHINGTON, Aug. 26 (UP)—
The question whether Rome is to be rccognized us an open city is being discussed, but nn decision has yet been reached. Sectary of State Cordell Hull, saill today

Danish Revolt
Stymies Nazis
STOCKHOLM, Aug. 26. (AP)-~
As the; Danish revolt against Nazi occupation reached new heights in spreading public disorders, speculation
arose here to night that Germany has stretched her military might so thinly over Europe that she is unable to enforce her full military control of her "model protectorate."
This opinion was strengthened as Nazi occupation authorities still hesitated to pursue the ruthless tactics which characterized their earlier dealings with opposition forces, despite the serious disruption by strikes and sabotage in the kingdom's production of war supplies.
One Shooting Reported German soldiers, sped into Copenhagen as the wave of strikes and sabotage increased, were reported, however, to have fired a volley of shots during a demonstration in a crowded capital market place last night

Current Events August 26, 1943;

THIS WAS REPORTED TODAY: AUGUST 26, 1943:

Forging steadily ahead on an ever-widening front, Red
army troops today were beyond the high water mark of their winter counter-offensive after
capturing Zenkov, 85 miles northwest of Kharkov

RAF Mosquitos kept the nerves of Berliners on edge last night with the third raid on the German capital in as many nights. The air ministry communique said one of last night's raiders was missing. Simultaneously with the new stab at Berlin, other aircraft laid mines in enemy waters, it was announced.

American and Australian jungle troops now are within a mile of the Salamaua, New Guinea, airdrome, a spokesman for Gen. Douglas MacArthur disclosed today. This point of nearest approachis at Kennedy's crossing at the southwest end of the airstrip.

German soldiers, sped into Denmark to stamp out the people's revolt against Nazi occupation, fired a volley of shots during a disturbance in a crowded Copenhagen market place last night, the Stockholm newspaper
Aftonbladet said today.
              The Portsmouth Herald
               PORTSMOUTH, N. H., THURSDAY EVENING, AUGUST 26, 1943

President Returning to Washington
SOVIET DRIVE ROARS ONWARD
TOWARD KEY POLTAVA BASE
Reds Pass Highwater Mark
Of Winter Push; Zenkov
Falls; Front Still Widening
London, Aug. 26 (AP)—
Forging steadily ahead on an ever-widening front, Red
army troops today were beyond the highwater mark of their winter counter-offensive after
capturing Zenkov, 85 miles northwest of Kharkov.
A Soviet communique, announc-ng villages the fall of Zenkov and 60 nearby villages, said savage German counterattacks had failed to halt a Russian surge toward the Dnieper river bend as Red army units streamed through fallen Kharkov, pointing toward Poltava and Lozovaya, 85 miles to the southwest and south, respectively.
Russian forces on the lower Donets, meanwhile, were reported to be widening a breach in the German lines southwest of Voroshilovgrad and penetrating ever deeper into the Donets basin. The German high command declared 253 more Russian tanks had been destroyed as the Red army suffered "renewed big losses." The
Nazi communique broadcast from Berlin and recorded by the Associated Press, said strong Russian tank
and artillery forces attacked on a  broad front west of Moscow, but were thrown back in hand-to-hand
fighting.
Strong Soviet Attacks

RAF Planes
Hit Berlin
Third Night
London, Aug. 26 (AP)—
RAF Mosquitos kept the nerves of Bcrliners on edge last night with the third raid on the German capital in as many nights. The air ministry communique said one of last night's raiders was missing. Simultaneously with the new stab at Berlin, other aircraft laid mines in enemy waters, it was announced.
Meanwhile, a dispatch received through Stockholm said the death toll in Berlin during Monday night's bombing, when an estimated 700 heavy bombers made a smashing at-
would have  been enormous if women and children had not been evacuated from the city.
The dispatch, from the Berlin correspondent of Stockholm's Tidnlngen, said every able-bodiecl person was mobilized for fire fighting and rescue work  While keeping Berlin awake, the Mosqultos put Axis radios to sleep. One after another the transmitters faded until there was a complete blackout of enemy broadcasts for
most of the night all the way across Europe.

Allies Creep
Ever Closer
To Salamaua
Allied Headquarters in the
South Pacific, 'Aug. 26 (AP) —
American and Australian jungle troops now are within a mile of the Salamaua, New Guinea, airdrome, a spokesman for Gen. Douglas MacArthur disclosed today. This point of nearest approachis at Kennedy's crossing at the southwest end of the airstrip.
The spokesman said that along the Francisco river, which flows south of the airstrip into Bayern
bay, the only Japanese still holding out below the river are at Dot inlet on the coast.
The only semblance of a line held by the enemy begins at the inlet and runs to Nuk Nuk, directly
south of the airfield. Along that line, the enemy has made several counterattacks.

 Copenhagen Riots
Bring Nazi Troops
Stockholm, Aug. 26 (AP)—
German soldiers, sped into Denmark to stamp out the people's revolt against Nazi occupation, fired a volley of shots during a disturbance in a crowded Copenhagen market place last night, the Stockholm newspaper
Aftonbladet said today.

Current Events August 25, 1943;

THIS WAS REPORTED TODAY AUGUST 25, 1943:

Fires raged across Berlin yesterday in the wake of the German capital's heaviest raid, and even as the Nazis tightened the ring of their defenses, American daylight bombers split it open again with a! smashing attack in

the west.

Adolf Hitler placed all of Germany under the iron control of the Gestapo yesterday, naming Gestapo chief
Heinrich Himmler as the new Minister of the Interior and general plenipotentiary for Reich administration.
The drastic action came as a wave of revolt swept occupied Europe, particularly Denmark, and only a few
hoursafter the biggest RAF .raid on Berlin, for which the German capital had been preparing frantically ever since the blitz of Hamburg

A state of emergency was proclaimed in six Danish cities as police and German soldiers met increasing difficulty in subduing "the people's revolt" against German occupation.


        THE STARS AND STRIPES
       Daily Newspaper of U.S. Armed Forces in the European Theater of Operations
                New York, N.Y.—London, England Wednesday, Aug. 25, 1943

Berlin Gets 1,900 Tons in Heaviest Raid
 RAF Over Capital
50 Minutes; USAAF
Hits Foe in West
Huge Fires Burning in Berlin After Assault
Twice as Large as City Felt Before;
Big Fort Formations Over Europe
Fires raged across Berlin yesterday in the wake of the German capital's heaviest raid, and even as the Nazis tightened the ring of their defenses, American daylight bombers split it open again with a! smashing attack in
the west. U.S. bombers poured explosives down on German installations in occupied France in a day marked by possibly the heaviest air traffic across the Channel since the Battle of Britain, and Fighters and Allied planes swept constantly to the attack across the coastline.
Eight enemy fighters were destroyed without U.S. loss during operations over enemy territory yesterday. Eighth Fighter Command reported. Maj. Eugene P. Roberts, of Spokane, Wash., was credited with destroying two Mel09s. and thereby officially becomes an ace. He downed three enemy fighters on July 30,
2 ; L t - william E- Julian, of Dallas. Tex., was credited with destroying two enemy fighters. As the attack rolled on through the day and into the evening, reconnaissance pilots brought back from Berlin reports
describing the destruction left by the enormous RAF night armada which late Monday unloosed nearly 2,000 tons of destruction over Germany's first city.
The scale of what in 50 minutes became the heaviest raid yet on Hitler's capital was measured in the RAF loss—58 plane the highest number ever reported missing by British Bomber Command.
                                                               1,900 Tons on City

Gestapo Controls All Germany
Hitler Gives
Home Rule
To Himmler
SS Repel Food Riot in Denmark
Move Seen as Desperate
Attempt to Avert
Internal Collapse
Adolf Hitler placed all of Germany under the iron control of the Gestapo yesterday, naming Gestapo chief
Heinrich Himmler as the new Minister of the Interior and general plenipotentiary for Reich administration.
The drastic action came as a wave of revolt swept occupied Europe, particularly Denmark, and only a few
hours after the biggest RAF .raid on Berlin, for which the German capital had been preparing frantically ever since the blitz of Hamburg.
Allied and neutral observers expressed the belief that Hitler.'under direct impact of Allied air attacks and military defeats in Russia and Sicily, had taken a desperate step to prevent internal collapse.
Revolt had reached such proportions in Denmark that "between 40.000 and 50.000 German troops and a number of tank divisions were rushed across the border 10 occupy Copenhagen and other centers of disorder, the United Press reported from Stockholm. A state of emergency was proclaimed in the Danish
capital and five other cities as rioting and sabotage, particularly of war plants and transport lines, spread.
                                                          French Keep Gestapo Busy

Siege Laws in Denmark—
STOCKHOLM. Au«. 24 (.AP)—
A state of emergency was proclaimed in six Danish cities as police and German soldiers met increasing difficulty in subduing "the people's revolt" against German occupation.
The Stockholm press heard that during the weekend the Germans rushed tanks, armored vehicles and about 40,000 soldiers into Copenhagen. Clashes between Danish soldiers and Germans in Odense resulted in at least 50 deaths, and 20 Germans were killed at Svendborg, .reports said

Current Events August 24, 1943;

THIS WAS REPORTED TODAY, AUGUST 24, 1943:

Kharkov, chief Nazi base in southern Russia, fell to the .Red Army yesterday. A Berlin statement by DNB (German news agency) said German troops left the city during the night according to plan "after destroying all military installations and without being subjected to enemy pressure," but a Moscow announcement last  night revealed that the city was captured by the Russians in fierce fighting

The port of Naples, where the I t a l i a n s expect the Allied invasion to begin, was cut oftf yesterday from all railroad connection with the rest of Italy.
A devastating night-and-day aerial attack on the important rail junction of Salerno. 30 miles south of Naples, cut the final link Sunday after American Marauders fought a 35- minute running battle with nearly 100 Luftwaffe fighters and shot down a record bag-of 33. Mustang Invaders, escorting the daylight .raiders to their target, set up "a long-distance record for Their type of single-engine fighter-bomber, flying" nearly400 miles round trip from bases on Sicily. Only five Allied planes were lost in all the day's operations 

The Germans are using a type of rocket gun. slung beneath two-engined fighters, against Flying Fortresses. American airmen returning to this base from the initial U.S. shuttle raid to Africa revealed today

Allied landing operations in the Mediterranean, accompanied by terrific air and sea bombardments of Naples, Taranto and Brindisi. are believed here to be imminent and may even be announced as a climax to the Roosevelt-Churchill conference.
           THE STARS AND STRIPES
            Daily Newspaper of U.S. Armed Forces In the European Theater of Operations
                     New York, N.Y. — London, England Tuesday, Au». 24 1943



      Reds Capture Kharkov, Vital Nazi Base

Soviets Race
Far Beyond
Rail Center
Worst News for Reich
From Eastern Front
Since Stalingrad
Kharkov, chief Nazi base in southern Russia, fell to the .Red Army yesterday. A Berlin statement by DNB (German news agency) said German troops left the city during the night according to plan "after destroying all military installations and without being subjected to enemy pressure," but a Moscow announcement last  night revealed that the city was captured by the Russians in fierce fighting.
It was the third Russian victory on the Eastern front within three weeks, coming soon after the recapture of Orel and Byelgorod on Aug. 5. , Kharkov was the hinge on which the German lines in southern Russia swung.
A key railroad center, its six railroads radiated to all points in the south. In peace time it was a clearing center for the agricultural and mineral products of the Ukraine.
'Worst News' For Germany
Its capture, achieved by a giant enveloping movement which swept
Russian columns nearly a hundred miles in the city's rear, brings the Red Army within 120 miles of the Dnieper. A thrust to this line probably would force the Germans to withdraw from the Donetz
basin, the Kuban and the Crimea

Bombs Sever
Rail Contact
With Naples
Road South to Reggio
And:Two Lines North
Are Disrupted
The port of Naples, where the I t a l i a n s expect the Allied invasion to begin, was cut oftf yesterday from all railroad connection with the rest of Italy.
A devastating night-and-day aerial attack on the important rail junction of Salerno. 30 miles south of Naples, cut the final link Sunday after American Marauders fought a 35- minute running battle with nearly 100 Luftwaffe fighters and shot down a record bag-of 33. Mustang Invaders, escorting the daylight .raiders to their target, set up "a long-distance record for Their type of single-engine fighter-bomber, flying" nearly400 miles round trip from bases on Sicily. Only five Allied planes were lost in all the day's operations.
Three Rail .Lines Smashed
The latest attacks cut the railroad leading south from Naples to Reggio after the two main lines running north and northeast of the big port had been wrecked in previous raids.

Nazis Using Rocket Gun Fighters
Shuttle Raid Crews Return from Africa
Report Desperate Enemy Attacks With
Bombs and New Type Guns
By Richard Wilbur
Stars and Stripes Staff Writer
A USAAF BOMBER STATION. England. Aug. 23—
The Germans are using a type of rocket gun. slung beneath two-engined fighters, against Flying Fortresses. American airmen returning to this base from the initial U.S. shuttle raid to Africa revealed today.
The airmen, who stormed across the heart of Germany to shatter the Messerschmitt plant at Regensburg and fly on across the Alps, came back to their base wearing red fezzcs and lugging musette bags tilled with tropical fruits. Their reports to intelligence officers told of unusually determined fighter attacks by planes firing a projectile about the size of an indoor baseball from a device like a rocket gun, and also of Luftwaffe interceptors armed with 37mm. cannon instead of the usual 20mm. The rockets, fired from beneath twin engined Messerschmitt 110s and 2IOs, arched at the Forts with about 30 in a string, and exploded in a brilliant flash "like a Fourth of July rocket," crewmen explained. There also were repeated stories of enemy fighters once more attempting to drop bombs on the bombers.

QuebecExpects
Invasion of Italy
Signal for Attack May
Be Given from There;
FDR Sees Knox
. QUEBEC, Aug. 23 (UP)—
Allied landing operations in the Mediterranean, accompanied by terrific air and sea bombardments of Naples, Taranto and Brindisi. are believed here to be imminent and may even be announced as a climax to the Roosevelt-Churchill conference.
There is an atmosphere of expectancy in Quebec. With the arrival of Col.Frank Knox. Secretary of the Navy, the heads of all the American armed services were present, and it was widely expectedthe signal for the attack on Italy may be given from here. Although Italy would be the main target, the next Allied of[ensive in the Mediterranean, it is felt, would also involve the Allied forces in the Middle East in a drive against Crete and Greece.
While Mr. Churchill and Canadian Prime Minister Mackenzie King toured Quebec today. President Roosevelt conferred with Col. Knox and T. V. Soong, Chinese Foreign Secretary. Sumner Welles. Under Secretary of State, who left Washington for an unknown destination today, also may arrive.

Current Events August 23, 1943;

THIS WAS REPORTED TODAY, AUGUST 23, 1943:

The Italian press, according to a Associated Press dispatch from. Berne, Switzerland, yesterday declared openly what has already been hinted—that the German occupation of  Italy was blocking the Badoglio

government's efforts to -remove the country from the war

The mass of French people have suddenly become extremely polite, cheerful and pleasant towards the Germans and officials of the Laval government. Neither the Germans nor Laval's hirelings like it.

That is part of the extraordinary picture of the new atmosphere in France brought to Spain by Frenchmen, neutrals, Italians and even Germans.

The Luftwaffe is using formations of captured, rebuilt Flying Fortresses in a desperate last-stand effort to solve the tactics of American daylight bombing which in the last 29 days has struck a near-crippling blow at Germany's defensive fighter strength.
               THE STARS AND STRIPES
                    Daily Newspaper of U.S. Armed Force in the European Theater of Operations
                             New York, N.Y.—London, England Monday, Aug. 23, 1943
      Italian Press Says Germans Block Peace

Occupation Forces
Forestall Any Move;
Naples Hit Heavily
Axis Radio Reports Allied Landings in Italy and Crete.
The Italian press, according to a Associated Press dispatch from. Berne, Switzerland, yesterday declared openly what has already been hinted—that the German occupation of  Italy was blocking the Badoglio
government's efforts to -remove the country from the war.
A Chiasso dispatch from the Swiss Telegraph Agency said that Italian newspaper were "clearly stating
that the tirst aim of the Badoglio government is to remove the country from the war but Rome is seeking to prevent the peninsula becoming the theater of a gigantic battle between the Germans there and the Anglo-Saxons threatening to enter."
The agency reported that best informed sources agreed that German troops were constantly increasing in the peninsula, descending th/ough the Brenner Pass.
                                                              Naples Hit Hard
Allied air forces, in a concentrated day-and-night assault with Fortresses, Liberators, Wellingtons and Marauders, struck heavily at railway communications in the Naples area over the weekend, and Swiss reports said the Italians expected an invasion south of the port within a few days. One Axis-controlled radio station broadcast reports 'the invasion already had begun, with landings in the toe of Italy and on the island of Crete, but these were unconfirmed in Allied quarters.
Swarms of Axis fighters came up to attack the bombers as they roared in over Naples in successive waves to isolate the big port from railway traffic. More than 50 enemy interceptors were destroyed for the loss of nine Allied ships.

Smiles of French Puzzle Germans
MADRID, Aug. 22 (AP.)—
The mass of French people have suddenly become extremely polite, cheerful and pleasant towards the Germans and officials of the Laval government. Neither the Germans nor Laval's hirelings like it.
That is part of the extraordinary picture of the new atmosphere in France brought to Spain by Frenchmen, neutrals, Italians and even Germans.
"When our train stopped at Vierzan," said a Spanish traveller, "nearly 100 townspeople went to a carriage occupied by German officers. They stood, smiling,nodding and waving, until the Germans angrily demanded what they wanted. The reply was: 'We have simply come to greet you and do anything we can to make your stay in Vierzan pleasant.
"The women made exaggerated comments on the good looks of the German officers. The scene was repeated at all the station stops."

 

Luftwaffe Using Captured

Planes to Fight U.S.

Daylight Blows

The Luftwaffe is using formations of captured, rebuilt Flying Fortresses in a desperate last-stand effort to solve the tactics of American daylight bombing which in the last 29 days has struck a near-crippling blow at Germany's defensive fighter strength.

Formations of the B17s, shot down in USA AF raids on the Reich and occupied countries, have been flying alongside Eighth Air Force Forts during recent missions over Germany, but so far have made no serious attempts to interfere

with the U.S. raiders, it was revealed yesterday.

The captured Forts, apparently manned by Nazi experts on air tactics, are being used to study American formation flying and defense maneuvers, as well as to report to waiting defenses on the speed, height and direction of the attacking units, experts believe.

Peenemunde Attack a Success
To 'substantiate the growing belief that the Allied air offensive from bases here is culling into Nazi fighter power on a steadily increasing scale was a British Air Ministry statement yesterday describing the results of the RAF night attack Last week on the Luftwaffe radio-location research laboratories at Peenemunde, on
the Baltic.

Current Events August 22, 1943;

THIS WAS REPORTED TODAY, AUGUST 22, 1943:

The possibility of devastating aerial assaults on the Japanese homeland itself, smashing open a path for ultimate seaborne invasion, loomed strongly Saturday night after the enemy's hasty evacuation of Kiska. Triumphant announcement of the retaking of the last. Japanese toehold in the western hemisphere came Saturday

from the Quebec conference where still greater Pacific operations are being planned.

The Red army has killed, wounded, or captured at least 1,000,000 German troops and destroyed more than 6,000 tanks in the past 47 days of heavy fighting on the eastern front where the Russians forged aheac on four sectors Saturday, Moscow announced Saturday night.

Allied bombers cut three trunk rail lines out of Naples Friday in their pre-invasion offensive against Italian transport while warships sank seven escape boats f r om Sicily and shelled the west coast of the Italian mainland for the second time in two days, it was

announced Saturday.

                 The Wisconsin State Journal

                                  MADISON, SUNDAY, AUGUST 22, 1943

Skies Opened to Smash on Japan

Burma-China-lndia Air

Drive Mapped as Kiska's

Fall Sets Up New Base

The possibility of devastating aerial assaults on the Japanese homeland itself, smashing open a path for ultimate seaborne invasion, loomed strongly Saturday night after the enemy's hasty evacuation of Kiska. Triumphant announcement of the retaking of the last. Japanese toehold in the western hemisphere came Saturday

from the Quebec conference where still greater Pacific operations are being planned.

Unification of the U. S. air operations in China, India, and Burma under command of Maj. Gen. George E. Stratemeyer—announced in New Delhi Saturday night—was interpreted in Washington as foreshadowing early intensification of the air war against Japan. Stimson, Soon on Way A few hours after Pres. Roosevelt and Canadian Prime Minister Mackenzie King disclosed the occupation! of Kiska, White House Secretary Stephen Early announced that Chinese Foreign Minister T. V. Soong and Secretary of War Henry L. Stimsoa are en route to Quebec, presumably in connection with military

decisions reached by Mr. Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill. Early also revealed that Brit. Gen. William J. Donovan, director of the office of strategic services which compiles information on conditions in enemy countries, already in Quebec.

Pacific Conference Loom

Million German

Fall Before

Reds in 47 Days

6,000 Tanks Crushed

as Russians Forge

Ahead on Four Fronts

LONDON—(U.P.)—

The Red army has killed, wounded, or captured at least 1,000,000 German troops and destroyed more than 6,000 tanks in the past 47 days of heavy fighting on the eastern front where the Russians forged aheac on four sectors Saturday, Moscow announced Saturday night.

More than 300,000 Germans were killed between July 5, when the enemy opened his ill fated offensive' on the Kursk-Belgorod- Orel 'salient, and Friday, an announcement by the Soviet information bureau said. Action in Donets Basin. The Soviet high command's

special communique said .that in Saturday's fighting, Soviet troops had gone into action in the Donets basin southwest of Voroshilovgrad for the first time in weeks, and advanced on the Kharkov, Bryansk, and Spas Demensk sectors.

The Russians, who opened their own summer offensive on July 14 and broke the German drive, captured more than 25,000 Germans in the 47 days, the information bureau said.

"Taking into consideration that German wounded exceeds killed by two and one half times, it can be reckoned that enemy losses between July 5 and Aug. 20 amount

to at least one million," the bulletin said.

Bombers Cut

3 Railroads

Near Naples

Warships Sink Seven

Italian Escape Boats

in Pre-lnvasion Blow

ALLIED HEADQUARTERS,

North Africa—(U.P.)—

Allied bombers cut three trunk rail lines out of Naples Friday in their pre-invasion offensive against Italian transport while warships sank seven escape boats f r om Sicily and shelled the west coast of the Italian mainland for the second time in two days, it was

announced Saturday.

In a swift follow-up of Thursday's shattering raid on Foggia near the east coast, waves of Billy Mitchell and Marauder medium bombers carried the air offensive to the western side of Italy by day, battering Aversa anri Benevento, while RAF and Canadian Wellingtons hit Villa Literno Friday night.

Fourteen enemy fighters were shot down in fierce enemy combat over these targets.

British warships, keeping close vigil on the west coast, caught the enemy evacuation flotilla off Scales and U. S. naval formations set large fires at Gioia-Tauro in the second bombardment of that target.

Current Events August 21, 1943;

Current Events August 21, 1943;

THIS WAS REPORTED TODAY, AUGUST 21, 1943:

Tension in Europe mounted to fever-pitch last night, as the Allies' highest chieftains neared completion of the final blueprints for the death blow at the enemy and Axis military experts rushed defense preparations under a handicap of increasing resistance from its conquered peoples.

Heavy American and British bombers, all concentrating on the city of Foggia, brought the Allied bombardment of Italy to a new and terrible peak of destruction today, smashing the city's important industrial and communications area in one of the greatest attacks ever mounted in the Mediterranean.

Allied planes swept against the Nazi invasion coasts yesterday, carrying on the sustained aerial offensive which in 19 days of August has claimed at least 239 first line-enemy planes, with the score of fighters shot down on one Fortress attack still unreported.

STARS AND STRIPE

 Daily Newspaper of U.S. Armed Forces in the European Theater of Operations

New York, N.Y.—London, England Saturday, Aug. 21, 1943

Europe Tense as Invasion Threat Grows

Resistance Spreads

As France Is Told :

Get Ready to Help'

Word From Quebec Conferences Awaited

As Allies Lash Nazi Air Defenses;

London Hears Rumor Italy Out

Tension in Europe mounted to fever-pitch last night, as the Allies' highest chieftains neared completion of the final blueprints for the death blow at the enemy and Axis military experts rushed defense preparations under a handicap of increasing resistance from its conquered peoples. In London rumors persisted that Italy already had accepted unconditional surrender, but official sources denied knowledge of "it.

With southern Italy subjected to some of the most concentrated bombardment the Mediterranean has seen, and with Germany battered by land on the east and by air on the west, these developments stood out in the day's news.

Air Assault

Hits Foggia

Death Blow

}

Four-Wave Attack Equals

First Raid on Rome;

Islands Surrender

By Relman Morin

Associated' Press War Correspondent

ALLIED HQ.. North Africa, Aug. 20—

Heavy American and British bombers, all concentrating on the city of Foggia, brought the Allied bombardment of Italy to a new and terrible peak of destruction today, smashing the city's important industrial and communications area in one of the greatest attacks ever mounted in the Mediterranean.

Flying Fortresses, Liberators and Wellingtons .participated in the attack, a saturation raid which lasted through the day and night hours..

(The first wave of Liberators, United Press reported, was led by Col. John R.(Killer) Kane, of Shrevepprt, La., whose winning of the Congressional Medal of Honor for the attack on Ploesti was announced the day before. The B24s dropped nearly 150 tons of bombs, it was announced at Cairo.)

The crews brought back vivid descriptions of destruction and damage with flames and explosions pouring from the railway yards, industrial buildings, military installations, warehouses and electric power plants. Invasion Isles Taken

Meanwhile, Lipari and Stromboli, two of the main islands of the important Aeolian group, off the west coast of the Italian mainland, surrendered to American warships on Tuesday morning and within a few hours, naval landing parties had gone shore.

The surprise surrender and occupation, placing the whole island group north of Sicily at the disposal of the Allies, was announced officially this morning.

Valuable Observation Point

Air Blows by Allies Reducing

Fighter Strength of Luftwaffe

Allied planes swept against the Nazi invasion coasts yesterday, carrying on the sustained aerial offensive which in 19 days of August has claimed at least 239 first line-enemy planes, with the score of fighters shot down on one Fortress attack still unreported.

Flying Fortresses and Thunderbolt fighters have shot down at least 150 Nazi fighters and interceptors so far this month, and the box score still does not list the tally of the Fortress formation which hit Regensburg and flew on to Africa. B26 gunners have chalked upone more confirmed victim. In addition, RAF Spitfires have accounted for another 25 fighters while accompanying USA AF bombers, and the RAF as a whole has destroyed a further 63 enemy aircraft over Europe.