The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-08-19
Sicily,
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shore batteries across the mar
row Strait of Messina,
News Of the sea bombardment
came in the wake of an an
nouncement by Gen. Eisenhower
that the American 18th and Brit
ish 9th Armies are ready to go
at any minute and broadcast
made in the name Of the Allied
high command warning the peo-
pies Of conquered Europe TO pre-
pare in the shortest possible
time for an Allied invasion Of
the continent
The broadcast, made blythe
Allied-controlled Algiers radio,
was directed especially to the
people of France.
In the past it said, you
have heard similar messages
from Allied headquarters. You
have just heard one of greatest
Importance"
Coincidentally, the NJ d
radio quoted Informed circles
as believing that the time for an
assault on Hitler's European for
tress was only a few hours off.
CITE CONCENTRATION
German radio commentators
said a major concentration of
Allied invasion ships had been
observed at Bizerte, in Tunisia,
and asserted that % vessels ag-
gregating $4,000 tons had been
damaged in a raid there by Ger
man planes Tuesday night.
Other world events alta
glance:
Russia - Red armies narrow
German escape corridor from
Kharkov to 80 miles, threaten
last two rail lines of retreat;
Soviet drive on Bryansk gains
four to six miles, overruns 40
more villages; Berlin says Rus
slams launching fourth summer
offensive at lzyum aimed at
Dnieper river ben.
New Guinea -- Big Japanese
air base at Salamaua reported in
ruins from bombing assaults, AL
lied troops advance within five
miles of enemy stronghold.
Solomon Islands 49, American
warships smash japanese at
tempt to land on newly captured
Vella LaVella island, hundreds
of japanese slain trying to reach
shore, 20 to 80 troop TANNED
bargeS destroyed; ". S. naval
gunners hit three escortitng en-
envy destroyers, probably sink
one.
SPEED PLANS
Quebec - Speed-up of Allied
plans for European invasion
seen as likely result of Roose-
velt-Churchill war council;
Eden believed chosen as courier
to inform Stain on master STRAIT
egg.
European air war - Raj
fighter bombers sweep France,
low countries.
Italy - Italian underground
radio station calls for general
strike; demands; immediate end
TO hostilities, abdication of King
Vittorio Emanuele, dismissal Of
Premier Badoglio.
While American naval guns
and fleets Of Allied planes blast
cd the Italian mainland, notably
on the southwest coast where an
invasion might be expected TO
strike, dispatches from Switzer-
land said the German high COM
mand was apparently planning
to fight a delaying action in
southern Italy and ultimately
make a determined stand in the
towering Alps at Bremen Pass
in the north.
RuSsia's renewed plea for the
establishment of a second front
IN western Europe, as voiced by
me Soviet army newspaper Red
star drew conside vable attention
at Quebec where President
Roosevelt and Prime Minister
Churchill, along with the high
est Allied military, leaders, were
formulating momentous ,,iars
Military experts at the eoun-
Gil scene were silent on Red
Star s assertion that the Allied
campaign in Sicily failed TO di.
vert a single German division
from the Soviet front" but they
agreed that now was the time 10
hit Germany's western flank
while the Nszi war machine wa,
Jared off balance by the Rec
armies blow in the east.