Current Events July 22, 1943;

THIS WAS REPORTED TODAY, JULY 22 1943:

The Navy announced today the American submarine Triton, old raider of Japanese

shipping, "must be presumed to be lost," on a war patrol. The Triton was launched in Portsmouth.

British warships, boldly challenging the shore-bound

Italian fleet, were reported today to hove bombarded the

Italian mainland at Crotone, while on the land front

American and Allied troops crowded the Axis into a new

'coffin corner" trap in northeast Sicily.

Adm. William F. Halsey's headquarters announced today that the

Japanese air base at Munda, key to the enemy's defenses in the Central Solomons,

"now is in reach of capture" as American troops stormed through

the jungles within a few thousand yards of the stronghold.

Portsmouth-Built Sub Triton Lost at Sea

                             The Portsmouth Herald

                 PORTSMOUTH, N. H., THURSDAY EVENING, JULY 22, 1943

WARSHIPS SHELL MAINLAND

OF ITALY; CORNER AXIS FORCE

Famed

Triton

Missing

Washington, July 22—

(AP) _

The Navy announced today the American submarine Triton, old raider of Japanese

shipping, "must be presumed to be lost," on a war patrol. The Triton was launched in Portsmouth.

The Triton, which had destroyed more than a dozen enemy warships and

merchantmen, was commanded by Lt. Comdr. George Kenneth [Mackenzie,

Jr., of New York Brooklyn, N. Y.

The vessel carried a normal complement of about 60 men

it was the 10th United States, undersea boat to be lost in this

war including eight lost as a result of combat In the Pacific and two

as of non-combat incidents in the Atlantic.

Enemy Evacuates

3 Sicilian Cities;

Catania Fall Seen

(By the Associated Press)

British warships, boldly challenging the shore-bound

Italian fleet, were reported today to hove bombarded the

Italian mainland at Crotone, while on the land front

American and Allied troops crowded the Axis into a new

'coffin corner" trap in northeast Sicily.

An Algiers broadcast said the fleeing enemy had already

evacuated the western Sicilian cities of Palermo,

Trapani and Marsala.

The broadcast also declared that the fall of Catania,

key defense port on the Sicilian east coast, could not be delayed

much longer.

Jap Base at Munda Now

Within Reach of Capture

(By the Associated Press)

Adm. William F. Halsey's headquarters announced today that the

Japanese air base at Munda, key to the enemy's defenses in the Central Solomons,

"now is in reach of capture" a s American troops stormed through

the jungles within a few thousand yards of the stronghold.

At the same time, Australian troops m New Guinea were reported

to have crushed nine Japanese counterattacks on Mt Tabu,

only a few miles below the big enemy bastion at Salamaua, strewing

the mountainside with at least 282 Japanese dead

                                                              Bairoko Bombed