ADVANCE CONTINUES ALONG WHOLE FRONT
More Towns and Aerodromes Captured BRITISH TROOPS PUSHING ON TOWARDS CATANIA PROGRESS MADE BY CANADIANS & AMERICANS •' LONDON. July 14. The Allied advance in Sicily continues all along the line. Correspondents report the capture by Canadian troops of Modica, over 20 miles north-west of Cape Passero. Modica has Xa population of over 50,000 and is ten miles from the coast, on ’the railway between Syracuse and Ragusa. North-west of Ragusa, the Allies have captured the large and important airfield at Comiso. The Americans have taken another airfield west of Gela. Since British troops occupied the naval base at Augusta they have pushed on towards Catania, the most important town in Sicily after Palermo. The airfield at Catania has been bombed by Flying Fortresses and shelled by naval units. At Augusta, the Allies found the harbour undamaged, just as they did at Syracuse. At the western end of the line, the Americans, pushing on from Licata, have captured the town of Naro, ten miles inland. The Allies now hold a strip of territory with a maximum depth of more than 30 miles in parts and nowhere less than six miles. Ten thousand Axis prisoners have now been taken. The Italian commander of the 206th Division was captured with his entire headquarters. General Eisenhower, in a communique, states that the division has been almost entirely eliminated. General Alexander visited the island yesterday in a light cruiser. Yesterday’s air operations were on a very big scale and covered the whole of the island, going on night and day. Some ( of the Allied planes are now flying from the advance landinggrounds captured in Sicily. A British correspondent says: “The Allied soldiers in Sicily are fighting smoothly and efficiently, mile by mile, and are walking in unopposed. We came up against German units yesterday, and they were captured and taken to our camp. They were well equipped and in excellent physical condition, and they were visibly impressed by the large Allied tanks and heavy guns which were rolling toward the hills. “While the advance continues, another chapter of heroism is being written on the beaches, where men are unloading supplies under the blasting and strafing of German fighters and bombets, which swoop lew, drop bombs or use their machineguns, and roar away.”
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 15 July 1943, Page 3
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