FOUL TACTICS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 30 July 1943, Page 4

FOUL TACTICS

EMPLOYED BY NAZIS

DECEPTIVE USE GF WHITE FLAGS.

ALLIED AIR SUPERIORITY OVERWHELMING.

(By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) (Received This Day, 11.45 a.m.) LONDON, July 29. The Germans in Sicily are dragging out an old trick to inflict maximum losses on the Allies. An Algiers report says that twice yesterday the Germans put up white flags, but when our unarmed staff cars, carrying officers, entered the German lines to find out what they wanted, the Germans destroyed the cars and took the occupants prisoners, if they had not already been killed or wounded. A German prisoner stated that the Germans were murdering Italian soldiers refusing to fight against the Allies. A Morocco report says that only two German planes have flown over the British lines in the past 18 days. The Allies, taking advantage of this overwhelming air superiority, dropped leaflets over the German lines to bring the news of Mussolini’s dismissal to the German soldiers. Reuter’s correspondent at an advanced Allied air base says the big part the Allied air forces are playing in Sicily is again emphasised in a review of the second week of the Sicilian campaign, in which it is revealed that the North-West African air force alone dropped over 3,000 tons of bombs on Sicily and the mainland centres through which Sicily is supplied. Two' hundred tons of bombs were unloaded on the marshalling yards at Foggia. It is disclosed that more than 700 bombers participated in the daylight raid on Rome on July 19 and that 1,100 tons of bombs were dropped. It is officially considered the most -successful daylight operation of the war.