OFFICIAL REPORT
LAND & AIR OPERATIONS. (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day. 10.10 a.m.) RUGBY. July 30. A North African communique states: “Patrolling continued on the front held by the Eighth Army, with successful small encounters. The Canadians have advanced further against strong opposition. The American Seventh Army has advanced in several places. “On Wednesday night our bombers attacked the airfields at Montecorvino and Capodichino. Attacks on Italian airfields were continued on Thursday, when heavy bombers raided Vitrebo and medium bombers raided Aquino. The target areas were covered by bomb bursts. Light bombers carried out attacks on enemy positions in Sicily. Road communications on the island and shipping in Messina and Riposta were attacked by fighter-bombers. Our fighters continued their patrols over Allied shipping and land forces and carried out offensive sweeps over Sardinia. “As a result of attacks on enemy shipping in the Tyrrhenian Sea by tor-pedo-carrying aircraft a merchant ship was left in a sinking condition and two naval vessels were left on fire. One enemy aircraft was destroyed during the day's operation. Four of oui- planes are missing.”
BOMBER ATTACKS ON ENEMY ISLANDS & SHIPS. (Received This Day, 10.10 a.m.) RUGBY, July 30. R.A.F. Headquarters in the Middle East states: “Wellington bombers attacked enemy shipping in the harbour of Alinnia Island, near Rhodes, on the night of July 28. Smoke was seen rising from a merchant vessel after* the attack. “Yesterday Beaufighters attacked five enemy schooners near Paros Island, damaging all of them. All our aircraft returned safely.” HUNGARY SEEKING PEACE SWISS AND TURKISH REPORTS. LONDON, July 29. " Hungary has decided to join Italy in an attempt to -make an immediate peace, according to the Berne correspondent of the Stockholm newspaper “Afton. Tidningen.” This decision is reported to have been conveyed to the Italian Ambassador by the Hungarian Prime Minister, following a meeting of the Hungarian Cabinet. Another report from the Istanbul correspondent of the “New York Times” says the best-informed sources assert that the son of the Hungarian Premier is en route to Istanbul with instructions to the Hungarian Minister to Turkey to include Hungary In any peace bloc that is formed by Turkey upon Italy's capitulation.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 31 July 1943, Page 3
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