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NOW ONLY THIRTY MILES LONG FURTHER AMERICAN ADVANCE PRISONERS GIVEN AS 130,000 TO DATE. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) (Received This Day. 12.40 p.m.) LONDON, August 13. Before the fall of Randazzo it was stated that the Axis forces in the Randazzo area were completely cut off from all supplies. Their food stocks were rapidly dwindling.'while their water supply was exhausted. Units of the American Seventh Army have captured Cape Orlando, Naso and Brolo on the north coast. The front line in Sicily is now less than thirty miles long. The Axis forces are falling back to Messina and their evacuation is gathering impetus. It is being harassed from sea and air. Reuter’s Algiers correspondent states that 130,000 Axis troops so far have been taken prisoner in Sicily. General Fiumara, deputy commander of the Napoli Division, has been captured.

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Wairarapa Times-Age, 14 August 1943, Page 3

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139

LINE REDUCED Wairarapa Times-Age, 14 August 1943, Page 3

LINE REDUCED Wairarapa Times-Age, 14 August 1943, Page 3

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