FAMILIAR TACTICS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 6 September 1943, Page 3

FAMILIAR TACTICS

GERMANS MONOPOLISING TRANSPORT AND ABANDONING ITALIAN ALLIES. OTHER LANDINGS PREDICTED. (By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright) LONDON, September 5. The British United Press correspondent on the Italian frontier says that German forces which are trying to get out of the southern tip of Italy may be cut off by further Allied landings up the Italian coast. The Germans are seizing all the available lorries and armoured cars and are abandoning the Italian troops who were fighting with them. The situation in Calabria is highly satisfactory, reports Algiers radio. British reinforcements continue to flow across the Straits of Messina. People living on the mainland are cheering and embracing the invaders. Reuter’s military correspondent says the Allied invasion of Italy appears to be going not merely according to plan, but ahead of plan. The Cairo radio says that paratroops are being used to extend the bridgeheads. The Canadians took Reggio di Calabria and are now sweeping onward with the British, who took San Giovanni. The Allies are meeting with relatively feeble opposition. An unconfirmed Swiss report states that ‘ American troops have landed in Sardinia. A Swiss message says that the Italians expect an Allied landing near Naples. A report from Spain says that another heavily-escorted convoy has arrived at Gibraltar. Officials in Washington are said to be of the opinion that Italy will fall in the next fortnight.