THIS WAS REPORTED TODAY, AUGUST 10, 1943
Retreating German troops have begun 'wholesale demolition of communications in northeast Sicily, impeding but failing to check a general Allied advance which effected
a junction of the American Seventh and British Eighth armies between Randazzo Pass and the center of the line.
The Red Army drove to within 11 miles of Kharkov today and brought the city's trunk
railroad to the west under! fire, leaving the menaced German garrison only one winding rail route of escape. There were indications that the Germans already had begun to withdraw from Kharkov to avoid the rapidly growing 'threat of encirclement and the fall of the biggest city in the Ukraine appeared imminent.
Italo-German conferences at Verona have ended with Italy-' giving- assurances ' she
will fight- on, at least until 'the Allies offer more lenient-peace terms, an Italian frontier dispatch said today.
THE DAILY NEWS
HUNTINGDON, PA., TUESDAY, AUGUST 10, 1943.
2 MAJOR VICTORIES FOR ALLIE; APPEAR IMMINENT
FALL OF KHARKOV
LOOMS; BATTLE OF
SICILY NEARS END
U. S. 7th, British
8th Armies Meet
Between Bronte
And Triona
CAMPAIGN IN
2ND MONTH
By VIRGIL PINKLEY,
United Press Correspondent
Allied Headquarters, North
Africa, Aug. 10. —
Retreating German troops have begun 'wholesale demolition of communications in northeast Sicily, impeding but failing to check a general Allied advance which effected
a junction of the American Seventh and British Eighth armies between Randazzo Pass and the center of the line.
Seventh and Eighth Arm columns driving against Randazzo Key junction dominating the narrow defile between Mount Etna and the Caronian range; met west of the pass and plunged in today for a showdown battle expected to sea the fate of the cornered defenders of Sicily.
The junction of the American and British spearheads was believed to have cut off
unknown numbers of German troops making a sacrificial .stand before the mouth of the pass, one of the most vital Sicilian objectives remaining in Axis hands.
Soviet Spearheads
Moving Toward
Poltava And
Sumy
ALL COUNTERATTACKS
FAIL
By HENRY SHAPIRO,
United-Press Correspondent -
Moscow, Aug. 10. —
The Red Army drove to within 11 miles of Kharkov today and brought the city's trunk
railroad to the west under! fire, leaving the menaced German garrison only one winding rail route of escape. There were indications that the Germans already had begun to withdraw from Kharkov to avoid the rapidly growing 'threat of encirclement and the fall of the biggest city in the Ukraine appeared imminent.
Red Army mechanized and motorized forces raced through the northern Ukraine in the wake of Nazi units reported to be "in utter confusion" at some points. The Russians sliced in behind the laggards and trapped garrison after garrison.
The latest threat to the already undermined German position at
Khaikov_came..._when.,...Soviet troops who occupied Murfa, 38 miles west of the city, fanned southward and reached Kiritovka. nine miles north of the Kharkov-Poltava railroad.
SCHOOL CHILDREN AID IN RELIEVING LABOR SITUATION
129,000 Kiddies In State Work During Summer
Vacation At Various Occupations
Harrisburg, 'Aug.' 10.—The ..Public
Instruction"";Department disclosed today that about 129.000 Pennsylvania school children "contributed tremendously" to the state's manpower pool by working on farms and in factories and other 'jobs in 1942.
The department's Child Accounting and Research Division said the total was double that of 1941 and would be even greater for 1943.
H. Raymond Mason, Federal-State employment bureau director, attributed the great increase to relaxation of child labor laws.
Hiring restrictions have been lightened for the duration of the war in many non hazardous manufacturing occupations. "Mason's explanation was borne out by figures which -.showed, the
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ITALY TO FIGHT ON
Till MORE LENIENT
TERMS ARE GIVEN
European Advices Assert
Germans Are Sending
Troops To Italy
And Greece
HITLER RUMORS
ARE CIRCULATED
By WILLIAM B. DICKINSON
United Press Correspondent
London, Aug. 10.—
Italo-German conferences at Verona have ended with Italy-' giving- assurances ' she
will fight- on, at least until 'the Allies offer more lenient-peace terms, an Italian frontier dispatch said today.
European advices, meantime, asserted Germany has sent 32 additional divisions—nearly 500,000 men—into Italy and four panzer divisions to Greece in anticipation of Allied invasions when the conquest ' of Sicily has been completed.
Though reports that Adolf Hitler his' been deposed" appeared without foundation, the London Daily ' Telegraph said in a dispatch dated "somewhere in Europe" that all parts of Germany expected a military dictatorship to be established "within one or at least two months."
The latest in a series of unconfirmed rumors to reach Madrid
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