HARD FIGHTING
EXPECTED IN ITALY GERMANS DEFENDING VITAL LIFELINES. AGREEMENT AMONG ALLIED COMMANDERS. (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, 9.50 a.m.) RUGBY, September 10. Allied commanders, from General Eisenhower downwards, are unanimous in believing that ini the new operations now beginning on. the Italian mainland, ‘ the Allies have still “the hardest nut to crack.” The surrender of Italy without doubt is an outstanding victory, and even if the Italian troops and civil population fail to intervene on the side of the Allies their mere failure actively to help the Germans improves prospects of the speedy success of the Allied landings by that much. However, as one correspondent says: “Germany’s policy must be to prevent the Allies getting near her lifelines at any cost, and possession of airfields in North Italy will be bitterly contested.” He continues: “The Germans fought a most bitter fight through Tunisia and Sicily and there is no reason to expect that in Italy, where they are much stronger and much more solidly entrenched, they will do less. Of the three campaigns thus far begun in this theatre —Tunisia, Sicily and Italy—this is far and away the hardest.”
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 11 September 1943, Page 4
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