Current Events August 17, 1943;

THIS WAS REPORTED TODAY, AUGUST 17, 1943:

The Berlin radio, in a broadcast recorded by the Associated Press said today that all German and Italian troops have been withdrawn from Sicily.

The retreat was carried out out In the early hours today and that they reached the mainland of Italy with "their entire material and all supplies.

        THE DOTHAN EAGLE

      DOTHAN, ALABAMA. TUESDAY AFTERNOON, AUGUST 17, 1943

MESSINA FALLS; AXIS FLEES TO ITALY

Nazis Demolish

Fortifications

Along Mainland

Complete Seizure

Of Sicily Near;

Mop-Up Underway

LONDON. (AP).—

The Berlin radio, in a broadcast recorded by the Associated Press said today that all German and Italian troops have been withdrawn from Sicily.

The retreat was carried out out In the early hours today and that they reached the mainland of Italy with "their entire material and all supplies.

Major General Hubs, whom the German broadcast described as the German Commander in chief in Sicily, was one of the last to leave the Island, the Berlin radio said.

Reds Push Toward Bryansk

As Kharkov Battles Rage

Nazis Open Series

Of Counterattacks

But Fail To Check

Advance Of Soviets

BY HENRY C. CASHIDY

MOSCOW. (AP).—

The drive on Bryansk, the hinge of the German front southwest of Moscow

at the fastest pace of any of the three current thrusts, the Russian Army newspaper

Red Star Indicated today.

With Soviet troops meeting stiff resistance la the battle for Kharkov, other Russian divisions were moving steadily ahead toward Bryansk supported by the push further

north from Bpae Demensk.

Around Kharkov, Red Star aeld, the Germane were hurling large concentrations of reserves backed up by uBlta of from 40 to 50 tank and air squadrons in an effort to improve their precarious position. 

(The Soviet monitor In London recorded a Moscow broadcast of a front line dispatch to Red Star which said that "very tense battles were raging around Kharkov.)

The Germans were meeting with little success In the counter thrusts despite the use of picked troops. Red Star said, and the Soviet army was throwing the Naals hack and Inflicting heavy damage.

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