The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-06-08
Churchill
CONTINUED from Rage ~

Continued from Fage IL
tion in those Is days of talks il
Washington"
Allied plans, he said, coulc
best bc described as directed Il
the application upon the enemy
of force in its most intense anc
violent FORM"
Churchill pledged an ever
greater aerial assault upon Ger.
many. and at the same time ex.
pressed confidence that the Naz
U-boat menace was being rapid.
~ overcome.
In the battle OF Tunisia, Inc
said. the Axis lost 248,000 pris.
oners "a 900 more than pre-.
viously announced-and $4,000
killed, while the British 9th and
LIST armies lost $4,000 killed and
missing. The American End
Army Corps alone captured 81
600 prisoners, including $4,000
Germans.
OTHER DEVELOPMENTS
Russia - M o scoW believes
zero hour near for great summer
offensive, sharp German feel
err thrusts reported in four sec
tors.
War OF Nerves-Berln Shifts
from defense to offensive talk,
says Germany prepared to strike
anew; London hears Nazis ex-
pcct Soviet attack on northern
Finland front to coincide with
British American low from west.
Turkey-PreSident Inonu says
Turkey ready 10 mobilize if safe
~ OF nation imperilled.
Argentina-New military gov
eminent pledges neutrality for
present" and loyal cooperation
with other American nations.
Italian headquarters made
only the briefest comment on the
purported Allied landing at
tempt on Lampedusa, a seven
mile-long island some 100 miles
west of British Malta, while a
Berlin broadcast said the attack
was a Commando raid carried
out last night by about five
companies of British troops.
Proclaiming the thrust 100
per cent failure, Berlin said
German military quarters had
no doubt il was "a serious land
ing attempt"
Meanwhile, Allied war planes
returned to the assault on Italy's
battered Mediterranean outpost
at Pantelleria, bombing the is
land on many missions and
heavily punished the vital ferry
port of MesSina, Sicily.
The Italian Command admit
ted considerable damage" al
Messina and said uninterrupted
enemy air activity conferred
over Pantellerla
Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower s
headquarters said every type of
Allied aircraft, from Flying for
tresses 10 Warhawks, smashed at
Pantelleria with a deluge Of
bombs and shellfire, and burning
targets set up smoke clouds A.
900 feet above the italian Gil
braltar." Eleven Axis planes
we're shot down in the attack.
In the Russian campaign, Mos
COW was alive with expectations
that the zero hour was i'm
minent for the eruption of great
Summer battles. while Soviet
dispatches reported strong Ger.
man feeler thrusts in four key
sectors of the l,500-mile front.
With only three days to 60 be-
fore the anniversary marking
the start OF Hitler's 1912 Sum-
mer offensive, William McGaf-
fin, Associated Press correspond
ent in Moscow, summed up the
tense atmosphere as follows:
Everyone feels we won t
have to wait long now for the
big action"
Red Army headquarters re-
ported German attacks and new
troop movements in the import
ant hinge" sector near Sevsk,
roughly about midway between
Moscow and Rostov, and also
near Bclgorod, near Valakleya
on the Donets river, and on the
northwest front above Moscow
All these attacks were beaten
off. the Soviet Command said.
Hitler's headquarters S a G
merely "On the eastern front the
dav was quiet"