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ALLIED PUSH TO MAINLAND? POWERFUL FORCES READY (Received This Day, 1.5 p.m.) LONDON, August 17. In London it is thought possible that the Allies will push on to Italy almost immediately. The Allies have sufficient supplies and men for the operation. The Germans who escaped from Sicily are by no means out of Allied reach, for an invasion of Southern Italy would mean that they would again have to fight after five weeks of campaigning.
Mr Morley Richards, the “Daily Express” military writer, attaches significance to Air Marshal Sir Arthur Coningham’s statement that the Allies now had sufficient supplies in Sicily to carry out “other expeditions.” Mr Richards says the Allies landed 160,000 troops in the original invasion of Sicily and more have followed. There is therefore a formidable army in the island.
Only part of this arrny has been in action, he adds, because it was impossible to deploy great numbers over the limited Sicilian communications. The fact that they are stocked up and ready five weeks after the invasion of Sicily is due to the speed the Americans showed in occupying three-quarters of the island.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 18 August 1943, Page 4
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