HEART OF SICILY
PENETRATED BY AMERICANS & CANADIANS Near approach to central JUNCTION. WHERE ALL MAIN ROUTES MEET. (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, 10.5 a.m.) RUGBY July 19. The Eighth Army is within three miles of Catania, says a correspondent at Allied Headquarters in North Africa. He adds: “We have advanced so far across the Catanian plain that we have certainly neutralised all the invaluable Gerbini airfields, if indeed we do not already possess some of them ourselves. “On the left of the Eighth Army’s thrust, the Canadians have captured the town of Piazza Amerina. These troops and the Americans who captured Caltanissetta are advancing on Enna in the centre of the island, the Canadians to the north-west and the Americans to the north-east. Both are within 15 miles of Enna, where all the main routes meet and radiate.
NEW TONE TAKEN BY THE GERMANS. NOT CONCERNED TO DEFEND SICILY. LONDON July 18. While Italian broadcasts v*ere beingmade yesterday to rouse the fighting spirit of the people, the Berlin radio’s military spokesman announced that Sicily is no concern of Germany. “Sicily is chiefly an Italian affair,” he said. The German forces there are only a small minority of the defenders. Sicily’s fate, anyway, is unimportant to the .mainland of Europe. The island has never been a pillar of the European defence system, but only an advanced section of it.” The Stockholm newspaper, “Svenska Dagbladet,” says that Italy is withdrawing most of her troops from the Balkans as well as the south of France. The Ankara radio stated that the battle for Sicily, the fate of which is already clear, has aroused uneasiness and speculation in Rumania, Bulgaria and Hungary, where newspapers are expressing the hope that the German Army will help to defend Italy. The Berne correspondent of the
“Daily Express” reports that the Italians have seized trains, buses and lorries to rush Italian troops from Haute Savoie, France, to tlaly to defend the mainland. Numbers of Frenchmen who were suspected of Allied sympathies were arrested before the evacuation, and the Vichy police herded them into concentration camps.
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