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BY EIGHTH ARMY COLUMNS J — CATANIA CLOSELY THREATENED ALL ALLIED FORCES ADVANCING (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) (Received This Day, 11.45 a.m.) LONDON, July 14. Eighth Army columns, in a phenomenal advance north of Augusta, are pouring across the foothills on the southern verge of the Catanian Plain, with Catania, the key Sicilian port, as their objective, says Reuter’s correspondent at Allied Headquarters. The push is gathering weight and speed, he adds, and resistance is reported to be not very determined. This brilliant sweep to the north is the biggest news tonight in the general advance of the Allied forces in the past 36 hours. Catania’s airfield has been twice battered from the air and sea in the past 24 hours. We have captured two more important airfields— Ponte Olivo and Comiso. The town of Palma has also been captured. Reuter, summing up the Allied position tonight, says the latest advices reaching Allied Headquarters show that the main British drive is progressing along the coast road from Augusta; the Americans, fanning out westward from Licata, have extended their left flank 8 to 10 miles and captured Naro. A second American force, striking north east from Gela, has seized the Ponte Olivo airfield. This force is now less than two miles from Niscemi. Other American troops, who yesterday linked up with the Canadian left flank, outside Ragusa, have pushed on and captured Comiso Airfield. The Allied penetration on this front has now reached a depth of ten miles. The Canadians, fighting eastward of the Americanrs, have occupied Modica. These troops captured General Davet.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 15 July 1943, Page 4
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263SWEEP TO NORTH Wairarapa Times-Age, 15 July 1943, Page 4
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