THIS WAS REPORTED TODAY, JULY 25, 1943:
The victorious U. S. 7lh army today hurled a powerful
column east along Sicily's north coast toward Messina In a drive
to slam shut the gate of escape
behind German forces stubbornly defending Catania
Soviet troops driving on Orel scored further Rains of from 3
to 5 miles and captured several, additional populated, places: to- '
day In continuation of a push hailed by Premier Marshal Joseph Stalin
as having "complctely liquidated" Germany's 1943 summer offensive.
The Charleston Gazette
Charleston, West Virginia, Sunday Morning, July 25, 1943.
U. S. 7th Army Racing East to Bar Messina Exit;
Stalin Proclaims 500,000 German Troops Routed
Into Narrowing Sicily Area;
Reds Crush Summer Drive
Nazis' Offensive
Fully Liquidated
Russians Make Further
Gains Near Orel
MOSCOW. July 24.—(INS)—
Soviet troops driving on Orel scored further Rains of from 3
to 5 miles and captured several, additional populated, places: to- '
day In continuation of a push hailed by Premier Marshal Joseph Stalin
as having "complctely liquidated" Germany's 1943 summer offensive.
Proclaiming the rout of 38 German divisions of some 500.00ft or
more craick troops. Stalin announced that "more than" 70.000 Nazi
0fficers and men were killed and vast quantities of their weapons
smashed in the 19 days from July 5 to July 21.
Fall of Trapani
Sea Base Nears
Canadians Wheel, Join
Allies at Catania
By Pierre J. Hnss
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IK
NORTH AFRICA. July 24.—(INS)—
The victorious U. S. 7lh army today hurled a powerful
column east along Sicily's north coast toward Messina In a drive
to slam shut the gate of escape
behind German forces stubbornly defending Catania.
The new advance, which already has carried to a point about half-
way east from fallen Palermo to the Messina strait between Sicily
and Italy, developed as other American units captured the island's
western-most port of Marsala.
Vatican Denies Pope
Sent Protest to FDR
LONDON. July 24.—(INSI—
The Vatican radio was quoted by Reuter's news agency tonight
broadcasting a denial of Axis propaganda reports to the effect
that Pope Plus XII had dispatched a personal protest to
President Roosevelt over last Monday;s American air raid on
Rome.
The broadcast. are recorded In London by the British news
agency, declared that a spokesman for the Holy St. had "emphatically
denied" the Axis story of an alleged papal protest.
Air, Naval Assault
On Kiska Is Believed
Prelude to Landing
Canadian Pflots
Join in Bombing
Enemy's Shore Batteries
Pounded to Silence
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