ALLIED CAPTURES

Wairarapa Times-Age, 19 August 1943, Page 3

ALLIED CAPTURES

IN SICILIAN CAMPAIGN AXIS LOSSES OF TROOPS & MATERIAL. SOME IMPRESSIVE DETAILS. LONDON, August 18. A 8.8. C. reporter gives the •following figures of enemy losses in Sicily up to August JO: 135,000 prisoners taken; at least 32,000 enemy troops killed and wounded; 200 tank's and 502 big gnus destroyed or captured. Up to yesterday, over 1,700 enemy aircraft had been destroyed in the air or on the ground or captured. Many thousands of enemy vehicles of all types have been captured, as well as great quantities of stores.-

Between August 5 and yesterday, the Allies had destroyed 306 enemy ships, ranging from transport-carrying barges and E-boats to medium-sized merchant ships.

MARTIAL LAW ESTABLISHED BY GERMANS. IN NORTHERN ITALY. (By Telegraph—Press Association— Copyright) NEW YORK, August 18. “Because of the inability of the Italians to maintain order,” 19 German divisions in Northern Italy are administering martial law, according to reports reaching Switzerland from Italy, says the Berne correspondent of the “New York Times.' The move is understood to be a part cf the Wehrmacht’s preparations for a last-ditch defence of the “fortress of Germania.” The mayors of Milan, Verona and Como resigned in protest, whereupon they were arrested. This assumption of power by the Germans followed bitter clashes between Italian police and peace demonstrators. Evacuees from Milan report that fires are still raging following Sunday’s raid and thousands of wounded and dead are still trapped under mountains of wreckage. There are reports of widespread beginnings of a nation-wide general strike, which the Left-wing coalition proclaimed on Monday.

CLASHES REPORTED ITALIAN AND GERMAN TROOPS. NEW PEACE DEMONSTRATIONS. (Received This Day, 9.40 a.m.) LONDON, August 18. Clashes are occurring between the Italian and German troops, who are being moved from Southern Italy to northern areas, reports the Associated Press of Great Britain's Stockholm correspondent, quoting reports seeping through the Italian censorship. The Zurich correspondent of the Stockholm newspaper “Dagens Nyheter,” reports encounters involving German troops, but says it is impossible to say how serious they are. New peace demonstrations have broken out in Rome, Naples, Milan and Turin, a message from Lisbon says. An Italian diplomatic mission of five, including Dr. Angelis, of the Foreign Office, arrived in Lisbon yesterday. They left Rome after the second Allied bombing last Friday.