ITALIAN RESISTANCE

Wairarapa Times-Age, 28 September 1943, Page 3

ITALIAN RESISTANCE

INCREASING IN MILAN & TURIN WOMEN TAKING PART IN FIGHTING. SKIRMISHES GOING ON IN ROME. LONDON, September 27. The Palermo radio says that Italian resistance is increasing in Milan and Turin, where fierce fighting between Germans and Italian soldiers and civil- > ians, including women, is occurring. Skirmishes between Germans and Ital-| ians are also going on in Rome. MANY AXIS PLANES CAPTURED ON ITALIAN AIRFIELDS. (Received This Day, 9.25 a.m.) LONDON, September 27. The Associated Press Algiers correspondent says the North-West African Air Force has announced that 224 Axis planes, most of which were intact or only slightly damaged, were captured on six aerodromes in layt. 1 cmfw c on six aerodromes in Italy. NUMBER OF TOWNS TAKEN BY FIFTH AND EIGHTH ARMIES. GERMANS SAID TO BE EVACUATING FOGGIA. (Received This Day, 9.20 a.m.) LONDON, September 27. The Cairo radio says the Germans have b£gun the evacuation of Foggia. An Algiers communique says the Eighth Army in the north crossed the Ofanto River and captured Cerignola. In the centre they are still in contact with the enemy just north of Atelia, and have captured Muro. The Fifth Army has captured Calabritto and Cassano. PUNISHING ATTACK MADE ON AERODROME NEAR ATHENS. MERCHANTMAN SET ON FIRE IN GREEK HARBOUR. (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, 9.50 a.m.) RUGBY, September 27. A Middle East communique states: “R.A.F. Liberators and Halifaxes attacked the Kalamaki aerodrome, near Athens, on Saturday night. Bombs burst in the dispersal area, and two large explosions were seen. The Beaufighters left a merchantman smoking after an attack at daylight yesterday in Eyros harbour, which is 80 miles south-east of Athens and less than 100 miles from the new British bases on Samos and in the Dodecanese Islands. We lost one aircraft.”