VIOLENT BATTLE
ON SOUTHERN APPROACH TO CATANIA EIGHTH ARMY PRESSING ON. NOW ONLY TWO MILES FRO.M CENTRE OF CITY. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) (Received This Day, 9.35 a.m.) LONDON. July 21. A violent battle is raging south of Catania, where the Germans, particularly the Hermann Goering Division, are fiercely resisting, says the Algiers radio. The battle is irresistibly shifting towards the city and the British are now only two miles from its centre. The British have occupied several landing grounds at the Gerbini and other aerodromes which are now useless to the enemy because of their close proximity to the front. The enemy High Command has given up sending supplies and reinforcements through the Straits of Messina, which the Allies’ navies and ail’ forces completely control, and are increasingly using transport planes. A Rome communique says Enna was evacuated.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 22 July 1943, Page 3
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