long drive
BEGUN TOWARDS VITAL airfields. OTHER LANDINGS EXPECTED. (Received This Day, 12.50 p.m.) LONDON, September 3. The British United Press correspondent states that the Eighth 'Army troops have begun a long and tough drive northwards towards the" vital airfields, from which the Germans most important industrial centres can be blasted. Observers in London expect the Al lies to invade Italy farther north than the toe, where today’s landings were made. It is unlikely, they say, that the Allies will be content with a slow drive up the foot of Italy. The “Evening Standard’s” military writer says the Allies will Probably occupy the toe of Italy and both of the shores of the Messina Straits, to give a free and unhampered passage for the main body of the fleet and its larger transport. —
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 4 September 1943, Page 3
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