Current Events July 15, 1943;

THIS WAS REPORTED TODAY, JULY 15, 1943:

The jaws of an allied clamp

have taken a deeper bite on eastern Sicily after a fur-

ious battle in which the British eighth army hurled

back a powerful counter-attack by Nazi armored

forces, headquarters reports said today.

Allied troops, opening the all-out offensive to

drive the Japanese from their bases on the northeast New

Guinea coast, attacked the Mubo defenses today in an assault

to break the main bastion before Salamaua.

                    Times Twin Falls News

                                 TWIN FALLS, IDAHO, THURSDAY, JULY 15, 1943

ALLIES BITE DEEPLY INTO SICILY

8th Army Throws Back Powerful

German Armored Counter-Attack

ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN NORTH AFRICA,

July 15 (AP)—The jaws of an allied clamp

have taken a deeper bite on eastern Sicily after a fur-

ious battle in which the British eighth army hurled

back a powerful counter-attack by Nazi armored

forces, headquarters reports said today.

The greatest advance was scored by the American

seventh army, driving inland on a line parallel with

the British east coast push.

Led by Lieut. Gen. George S. Patton, jr., the Americans

dug into the Ragusa-Vizzini sector, moved forward

some six or seven miles, captured another important

airdrome and took important heights.

Another Italian general, commanding the 54th Napoli

division, surrendered with his staff south of Vizzini.

Vizzini is about 25 miles west and slightly south

of captured Augusta, and about the same distance

northeast of Gela.

Hurling itself forward against sterner resistance,

the British eighth army of Gen. Sir Bernard L. Montgomery

drove to the town of Brucoli; four miles north

of the port of Augusta after weathering' a crisis yesterday

in which the German a r m o r e d forces mounted a powerful counter-

attack and actually reached the harbor at one time.

All-out Drive on

Salamaua Opened

By Allied Troops

By BRYDON TAVES

ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, SOUTHWEST PACIFIC,

July 15 (U.R)—Allied troops, opening the all-out offensive to

drive the Japanese from their bases on the northeast New

Guinea coast, attacked the Mubo defenses today in an assault

to break the main bastion before Salamaua.

Their path opened by aerial bombardment, jungle fighters

closed in on Mubo "for decisive action," a special announcement

from Gen. Douglas MacArthur's headquarters said.

Fall of Mubo would lay open the Japanese line extending

northeastward 10 miles to Salamaua.. an important coastal

base and a major objective of the offensive begun June

30 to roll the Japanese back from both the south and

southwest Pacific.

The new action on the western end of the 750-mile line of operations

came as field dispatches reported

American tanks had joined in tthe assault on Munda, biggest

Japanese base in the central Solomons and major objective on the

eastern end. Munda's fall is imminent, the dispatches said.

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