Current Events August 11 1943;

THIS WAS REPORTED TODAY, AUGUST 11, 1943

Strict military secrecy today surrounded plans for the sixth meeting of President Roosevelt and Prime Minister Churchill, and it could only be assumed that it would occur "somewhere in America" within the next few days.

Churchill arrived yesterday from an east coast port where he reached Canadian soil after a journey from Lundon. The general staffs of Great Britain, the United States, and Canada, were engaged in strategy talks here, designed for a quick knockout of the Axis.

With the Sicilan campaign all but written off as an Allied triumph, the question of where the next assault will be made against the Axis European fortress took on increasing importance today. Prime Mnster Churchill's latest visit to the American side of the Atlantic aroused speculation in London that he and President Roosevelt would revise the Allied time-table for the invasion of the continent in the light of successes in

Sicily and Russia, and the consequent shock to German and Italian morale.

United States doughboys fought tonight before the town of Randazzo in the; shadow of the "Pillar of Heaven"—Mount Etna.

A mighty British air armada, hundreds strong, stabbed deep into Germany last night to

hurl at .least.1,500 tons of explosives on the arms and transportation center of Nurnberg.

The four - engined bombers blazed a trail of fiery destruction through a city crowded with submarine and airplane works, tank factories and other arms plants.

American conquerors of Munda converged on the last nest of Japanese suicidal resistance on New Georgia island at Bairoko harbor today, and a communique said a clash already had occurred on one flank.

                          The Daily Herald

     PROVO, UTAH COUNTY, UTAH, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 11, 1943

ROOSEVELT, CHURCHILL AWAIT

SIXTH WAR-TIME CONFERENCE

PLANS FOR

CONFERENCE

HELD SECRET

Churchill Begins His

Talks With Canadian

War Leaders

QUEBEC, Que., Aug. 11—(U.P)—

Strict military secrecy today surrounded plans for the sixth meeting of President Roosevelt and Prime Minister Churchill, and it could only be assumed that it would occur "somewhere in America" within the next few days.

Churchill arrived yesterday from an east coast port where he reached Canadian soil after a journey from Lundon. The general staffs of Great Britain, the United States, and Canada, were engaged in strategy talks here, designed for a quick knockout of the Axis.

The Roosevelt-Churchill meeting will be a British – American affair, it was revealed. Mr. Roosevelt said in Washington yesterday afternoon, soon after Prime Minister W. L. MacKenaie King announced that Churchill was in Canada, that no representative of Soviet Russia would be present. Mr. Roosevelt indicated

his disappointment. Now will there be a Chinese representative.

Action Expected Soon—

Sicilian Campaign

Near End; Allies

Set for Next Blow

Invasion of Continent Presumed Likely As

Speculation Heightens in Location of

Next Move On Allies Part

By UNITED PRESs

With the Sicilan campaign all but written off as an Allied triumph, the question of where the next assault will be made against the Axis European fortress took on increasing importance today. Prime Mnster Churchill's latest visit to the American side of the Atlantic aroused speculation in London that he and President Roosevelt would revise the Allied time-table for the invasion of the continent in the light of successes in

Sicily and Russia, and the consequent shock to German and Italian morale.

Among other matters to be discussed by Mr. Churchill and Mr. Roosevelt, it was believed, will be the framing of a surrender ultimatum to Premier Marshall Pietro Badoglio of Italy and appointment of a supreme Allied commander for the next phase of the war to push Adolf Hitler. Both Gen. George C. Marshall, chief of staff of the U. S. army, and Gen. Dwight Eisenhower, Allied high commander for the Mediterranean

theater, have been mentioned as possible choices for this, important assignment.

May Invade Italy—

ALLIED SHIPS

SHELL COAST

NEAR NAPLES

Bag Of Axis Prisoners

Increased To

125,000 Total

By VIRGIL, PINKLEY

United Press Staff Correspondent

A L L I E D HEADQUARTERS,

NORTH AFRICA —Aug. 11 (U.P) —

British warships, steaming one-third of the way up the Italian westcoast, bombarded a naval yard in the Gulf of Naples while Allied ground forces pounded along the Sicilian coast to within sight of the Italian mainland and increased their bag

of prisoners to 125,000, it was announced today. One British eighth army column captured Guardia in a two to three mile advance along the east coast road bordering Mt. Etna and came within sight of the toe of the Italian boot for the first time. Only 14 miles to the north lay the Axis base of Taormina.

Other eighth army forces consolidated their junction with the American seventh army north-and- west of Bronte, 22 .miles-to the northwest, in a general advance toward Randazzo pass, controlling the last good, road between the Sicilian east and the north coasts.

A British broadcast heard by CBS placed the Americans within two miles of Randazzo, (but emphasized that the report had not been confirmed).

120,000 Prisoner—

Of the 120,000 prisoners announced yesterday as in Allied hands, the American 7th army captured 92,000 and the British 8th army, 28,000. It has not been

specified who took the 5,000 prisoners who since have been taken.

"Progress continues to be made while our troops overcome enemy resistance and deal with obstacles he is leaving, " Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower's communique said.

YANKS FIGHT

FOR RANDAZZO

WITH AMERICAN FORCES

IN SICILY, Aug. 10 (Delayed)—-(U.P.)—

United States doughboys fought tonight before the town of Randazzo in the; shadow of the "Pillar of Heaven"—Mount Etna. By nightfall, one patrol had reached a point on the main Cesaro to Randazzo road, eight miles from the key town of 15,000 which once was the royal residence of Peter I or Aragon. The patrol had orders to push on until it made contact with the Germans, who had pulled a fadeout during the day and were believed headed north, leaving behind groups of demoilition experts to retard the Americans' progress.

To the south, British troops were facing the usual German tactic—a display of force on the Randazzo to Maletto road, then a rear guard action, and finally withdrawal.

Nurnberg, German War

Production Center, Hit

In British Air Attack

By WALTER CRONKITE

United Press Staff Correspondent

LONDON, Aug. 11 (U.P)—

A mighty British air armada, hundreds strong, stabbed deep into Germany last night to

hurl at .least.1,500 tons of explosives on the arms and transportation center of Nurnberg.

The four - engined bombers blazed a trail of fiery destruction through a city crowded with submarine and airplane works, tank factories and other arms plants.

Sixteen bombers were lost in the raid, the second on Germany in as many nights.

The air ministry described the Nurnberg attack as 'very heavy," a hint that the weight of bombs dropped may have approached the 2,300-ton mark reached in two of the recent nine raids on Hamburg. In addition to being the site of at least 17 arms plants, Nurnberg

is "one of the most important railway and industrial centers in southern Germany," the air ministry communique said.

The attack probably was the heaviest of seven on Nurnberg, which is second only to Munich as a Nazi party shrine, since the start of the war—Formation after formation of four-engined Stirlings, Halifaxes and Wellingtons flew some 1,100 miles round trip to drop their cargoes of high explosive bombs, ranging up to four-tori super block-busters, and tens of thousands of incendiaries.

Americans Battle

Jap Remnant at

Munda Air Base

ALLIED HEADQUARTERS —

SOUTHWEST PACIFIC, Aug. 11 (U.P) —

American conquerors of Munda converged on the last nest of Japanese suicidal resistance on New Georgia island at Bairoko harbor today, and a communique said a clash already had occurred on one flank.

Official reports did not indicate the size of the garrison, but it presumably was dug in with backs to the sea to fight to the death. the Yanks moving up from Munda, 10 miles to the south, pushed in from three directions—northwest, southwest and south.

The Japanese resistance was met on the left or north flank, while troops on the right reached Biairoko river two miles southeast of the harbor and joined patrols to make an unbroken line hemming in the enemy.

A dispatch from south Pacific headquarters said part of the troops were soldiers and marines under Marine Col. Harry B. Liversedge, who had cleaned out Enogai inlet, north of the harbor, early in the New Georgia campaign.

This dispatch said that while the Americans had heavy going through jungles and swamps toward Bairoko, the Japanese garrison either must face destruction or try to escape across Kula gulf northward. Some of the Japanese may be troops who wriggled out of the Munda trap, it was reported.