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AIR BOMBING OF SICILY FURTHER DESTRUCTIVE BLOWS. NUMBER OF ENEMY AIRCRAFT ‘DESTROYED. LONDON. July 9. There Ims been no Jet-up in the Allied day and night attacks on • Sicilian airfields, which were hammered again yesterday. In other attacks bombers and fighters shot up. a railway convoy and blew up a locomotive. Catania, the industrial centre on the east coast of Sicily, was attacked in daylight yesterday by Liberators. Telephone and telegraph offices, and marshalling yards were bombed and the central railway, station was set ablaze Enemy opposition was again on a reduced scale. Eight enemy fighters were shot down. Two Liberators did not get back. Spitfires from Malta shot down three enemy fighters just as they were about to land. The Spitfires destroyed another machine on the ground. NOTE OF CAUTION REGARDING AXIS WEAK AIR OPPOSITION. FIGHTERS PERHAPS BEING HELD IN RESERVE. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) LONDON, July 9. Reports from the Mediterranean continue to emphasise that the Allies have almost undisputed control of the air in the areas where they are hammering the Axis frontline defences. But the British United Press Algiers correspondent sounds a note of caution. He suggests that Air Marshal von Richthofen is hoarding fighters with which he hopes to smash landing attemps. The disappearance of strong enemy opposition over Sicily does not mean, he says, that Richthofen is running short of fighters. He has probably found throwing in masses of planes against raiders too costly and fears that unless he is careful he will lack fighters when our land attack is launched. It is more important for him to save fighters to counter the invasion than to try to fight off bombers now. The Germans have ordered the evacuation of Sete. the French naval base on the Mediterranean coast, on the ground that it is an urgently threatened sector, says Reuter’s Algiers correspondent. Hundreds of thousands of people are also moving from the string of towns on the extreme south of the Bay of Biscay, near the Spanish frontier. VILLAGE IN CRETE 4 WIPED OUT BY NAZI SAVAGES. EVERY MAN & WOMAN SHOT. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) LONDON, July 9. Crete has suffered more from German reprisals than any other part of Greece, said the Greek Minister of War, M. Stellies Demitrakakis. He instanced the village of Candanes, which suffered the same fate as Lidice—every man and woman was shot and the village was razed to the ground. Germans placed a notice where the village formerly stood: “In revenge for the assassination of German parachutists and pioneers by Cretans, this village has been wiped off the map.”
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 10 July 1943, Page 3
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