ORDER OF ATTACK

Wairarapa Times-Age, 4 September 1943, Page 3

ORDER OF ATTACK

ITALY’S TIME ALREADY UP GERMANY’S TURN NEXT. MR MALCOLM MACDONALD’S VIEW. (By Telegraph—Press Association— Copyright) LONDON, September 3. “The Allied confidence in the war operations is demonstrated by the fact that the plans for the Quebec conference were launched while the initial attacks on Sicily were being made,” declared the British High Commissioner to Canada, Mr Malcolm MacDonald, at a luncheon speech in Quebec today. He added: "Italy will fall first. Her time is already up. Then Germany will be exposed to a merciless attack.” "We must not expect that Germany will collapse easily or soon. The Nazi regime is fighting for its life, and has no hope except in resistance. It has a firm grip on Germany, and it will fight fiercely, stubbornly and unscrupulously to the end. The Russians have already struck deadly blows at Germany from the east, and we shall smash on the other flanks. “One day the strain’ Will be unbearable, and Germany’s heart will break. Nazi Germany will be nothing but a putrefying corpse. Then our whole strength will be turned on Japan.

MANY CASUALTIES REPORTED BY ROME RADIO. (Received This Day, 10.55 a.m.) LONDON, September 3. The Rome radio states that a large number of incendiaries and high-ex-plosives were dropped in Western residential districts and caused many casualties.

DISPLAY OF FORCE PREVENTS DEMONSTRATION STRIKE IN ROME. ARREST OF GRAZIANI REPORTED. (By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright) (Received This Day, 10.55 a.m.) LONDON, September 3. Reports from Berne say tanks and armoured cars were patrolling the streets of Rome yesterday, following upon the appearance of thousands of unsigned leaflets calling for a fifteenminute general strike, >as a demonstration for peace. The strike did not occur. According to the Algiers radio, Marshal Graziani, former commander of the Axis forces in Libya, has been arrested on the order of Marshal Badoglio.