UNCEASING ATTACKS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 24 August 1943, Page 3

UNCEASING ATTACKS

ON ENEMY RAIL COMMUNICATIONS IN SOUTH ITALY Heavy Toil Taken of Axis Fighters ALLIES ADVISING ITALIANS TO ENGAGE IN SABOTAGE IN ORDER TO CRIPPLE GERMAN WAR EFFORT LONDON, August 23. The Mediterranean air forces are going- steadily ahead with the job of smashing up the vital railway communications of Southern Italy. On Saturday, R.A.F. heavy bombers from the Middle East attacked the marshalling yards at C'atrone and Marauders went for the railway junction of Salerno, south of Naples, while last night Wellington bombers added to the damage in an exceptionally heavy attack. The Axis are putting’ up more and more aircraft in an attempt to stop the raids. Fifty or sixty fighters went for the Marauders in their daylight attacks and 30 or 40 more went for their escort. The bombers shot down 31 of the enemy and the fighters two more. All the operations cost the Allies seven aircraft. • The Italian people have been given fresh advice by the Algiers radio of how to sabotage the German war effort. The German army, it stated, had already begun to feel the effects of organised sabotage in south and central Italy, but the Badoglio Government was still allowing German forces to stream into the country. It was necessary for every Italian to put every obstacle in the way of the Germans that he could. ...The broadcast gave a list of important fuel depots which should be sabotaged.