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The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-08-17

(COntlnued rom Page D hours after Liberators from the Middle East had struck at enemy airfields at Foggia in central Italy in daylight.
 Thousands Fleeing
 The Office of War Information quoted Swiss newspapers that Milan's population had broken, thousands were fleeing the city and crying for peace while cursing the government. "The center of the city is huge run," the Journal de Geneve said.)
 Intruder aircraft peratin g against the continent directed their blows at railway targets as well as the airfields of northern France, Holland and Belgium where the LuftWaffe keeps its fighter nests to resist any landing. One enemy bomber was destroyed over a French base.
 No Berlin Attack
 No new attack on Berlin was re- ported, a lay off from harassing raiders sent against the German capital three of the previous four nights. A Stockholm dispatch said advices from Switzerland reported most NaZi government departments had moved from Berlin, leaving be- hind only small staffs to brave fu- ture bombings.
 London had an eventless air alert at midnight. A raider made a direct hit on bungalow on town along the Thames estuary, killing one man. Other planes crossed the southeast coast to drop few bombs in three towns but caused little damage and no casualties.
 The Eighth U. s. Airforce cele- brated completion of a year of heavy bombing of the Axis yester- day by striking directly at the Luftwaffe. hitting the important fighter replacement depot at Le Boudget field in Paris and cooper ated with the RAF in attacks on other airfelds and the steel works at Domain. near Valenciennes France.
 g Planes DOwned Thirty seven enemy planes were shot down. The raids brought the total amount of explosives dropped in F months by the U. s, force to l5,722 tons In 82 missions, Alto gether 4l9 bombers were lost ,ut altogether l,728 German fighters were destroyed and 67l probably de- stroyed besides BIT damaged,
 The present policy of the U. s force, authoritative statements M- dicated, was to destroy the strength of the Luflwaffe by raids similar tt yesterdays, Eight planes were lost in the raids,
 Radio Paris said the attack ir that area left TOT dead and III in' iIred with hundreds homeless,
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(Continued from Page D were counter attacking in Kharkov and before Poltava in the Ukraine with er-increasing fury in an at- tempt to halt the Russian advance short of the Dnieper river.
 Soviet attachments on one sector of the Poltava front, however, stormed across river and captured two villages and on another, seized favorable positions" after killing 600 of the enemy in a fierce battle.
 The situation in Kharkov itself was obscure. At last reports the Russians were in the northern and eastern suburbs, but lack of further news indicated they were meeting stubborn opposition as they sought to reach the center of Russia $ fourth largest city.
 More than 130 towns and villages fell to the Russians in advances of five to nine miles toward Bryansk yesterday. including the fortress of Zhidra. 40 miles to the northeast Sudimir, 32 miles to the north northeast and Buyanovichi, 24 miles to the northeast
 Zhizdra, from which the Germans attempted an abortive offensive this spring. was captured by the Rus slams at 4:30 a. m. yesterday after an all-night street battle in which l,200 enemy troops were killed and n German tanks were wrecked.
 Retreating the Germans again scorched the earth by destroying the town. Flaming villages and dy- namited roads marked their route oi retreat.
 Expanding their break through on the Spas Demensk front, 30 miles north of Bryansk, the Russians ad vanced to 7la miles yesterday and captured more than 30 villages. in- cluding Tserkovschina. 10 miles to the southwest.
 Here. too. the Germans were counter-attacking with fresh re- serves, but without halting the ad vancing Russian columns. During two days fighting in one sector, 3,00l Germans were killed and 26 guns snd i6 tanks destroyed, One thous- snds men were killed and 10 tanks disabled in a neighboring sector
 The capture Of Karaehev. 25 miles sast of Bryansk. was revealed ta nave brought the Russians "a tanks, l2 planes, s7 field guns. i3 self propelled guns. $500 rifles and as borted other arms and supplies,
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(Continued from Page D ities and postal workers at Esbjerg in western Denmark last week, pro- testing an 8 p. m. curfew imposed on restaurants, theaters and bus mess places.
 Curfew Lifted
 The curfew was said to have been applied after repeated clashes between Danish civilians and Ger man soldiers. The Germans lifted the curfeW after the strike had been in progress four days and the workers returned to their jobs.
 Cement workers at Aalborg, Den mark, were said to have struck for three days because Danish Nazis were used as anti-sabotage guards in the plants. The guards finally were withdrawn after they had fired upon workers.
 Sabotage has been reported al- most daily in Danish shipyards, in cluding those at Helsingoer, Aal- borg and Nakskov, according to word reaching Sweden.
 A Berlin dispatch of the Scandin- avian telegraph bureau reported that 26 German Catholic church officials were holding the annual bishops conference at Fulda today It was believed that an important message from the Pope would be de- livered, for reading in all Catholic pulpits of Germany.
 Speculation In Quebec
 Speculation in Quebec where President Roosevelt and Prime Min ister Churchill were about to meet for their sixth war conference, sug- gested that an invasion of western Europe would be among the first tangible results of their meeting and Norway and France were likely places for attack.
 Premier Vidkun Quisling pro- claimed new emergency law giving his personal storm troop organiZa- tion virtually unlimited powers over Norwegian lives and property and creating special courts to deal with all patriot activity, Stockholm dis patch said.
 The special courts" were des- cribed as courts martial in fact if not in name. Gunnar Eilifsen, chief of the Oslo civil police department, was executed yesterday after being convicted by one of the new courts of "disloyalty to the occupation power"
 No Appeal Allowed
 No appeal is allowed from the de- cisiOns of the courts.
 Nazi occupation troops, Gestapo agents and the Quisling police were rounding up an estimated 1,50O Nor wegian army officers for removal to prisoner camps in Germany.
 The order for the roundup was given by General Nikolaus Won Fal- kenhorst, German commander in Norway, at the personal behest of Adolf Hitler after the officers al- legedly abused their freedom by working against Germany, a Stock holm dispatch said.
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The damage was to several pro~ pellors which were bent in hitting the hard substance.
 Troops Dash Ashore
 Led by company commander Capt. Ferdinald P. Mueller of Wichita, Kans., troops of our units dashed ashore, left their packs, and re- turned to unload munitions and supplies. More landing craft, with out confusion, were doing the same.
 Trucks and jeeps and heavy guns came ashore just off a native vil- lage evidently cleared out only & few hours before. At the south end of the village was church with an altar and some benches but there were no indications services had been held this Sunday.
 Hardly had the last of the troops disembarked when the Japanese struck. They bombed several ships but the nearest explosives fell more than 1000 yards away. New Zea- land and Americans fighters got seven of that first wave. One dive bomber came down on the water still burning. Every wave of at- tackers was beaten of.
 Undoubtedly this landing thwarts the design of the enemy to hold up the Solomons advance for months by use of his garrison at Kolom- bangara.
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Axis Surrender Is
 Not Expected Soon
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saying that the cost of living now is only 4 1-2 per cent above the de- sired figure.
 Pessimistic Picture Most of Byrnes' speech was de- voted to the home front, but 1t con- tained a more pessimistic picture of the military situation than MT. Roosevelt painted in his fireside chat of July 28.
 There is nothing to justify the hope of unconditional surrender by the Axis powers in the near future Byrnes said. Tt is by no means clear that we are today as near win ming the war as the Axis was in the summer of 1940
 No full scale offensive against Japan has yet commenced.
 'The heroes of Bataan are still prisoners of war.
 No Allied army has crossed the borders of Germany. Before that is done thousands of American sol. diers will make the supreme sacri- flee
 We must realize that the war will be won by those who win the last battle. And the last battle has not been fought.
 We have every reason for con- fidence in an ultimate overWhelm- ing victory over both Germany and Japan, but am authorized by the President to say that in his judg- ment as of today the major battles lie ahead of us. not behind us" Reasons For Belief
 Some of the reasons for this be- lief, he said, are:
 l. The enemy has been using less than half of his combat divisions in battle in Europe, while the Allies have been using nearly three-quar- ters of those they have in the gen eral European theater. 2. We have met and defeated less than seven per cent of the com bat divisions" which Germany has in the European area; Russia has been fighting 40 per cent of the enemy's combat divisions. 3, If Italy is knocked completely out of the war, the enemy still will have more combat divisions in Flu rope than the Allies, and will have as many as the Allies even after the United States has reached it's full strength of 90 divisions. Only in the air will the Allies be numerical ly superior.
 {. In the Far East, Japan occu- pies one-fourth of the territory of China proper, dominates one half of It's population, controls developed resources, and has taken over from neighhoring islands and countries resources including % per cent Of the worlds crude rubber, | ., Severe as have been the losses inflicted on the Germans by the Russians, they are stlll much less than those suffered by the Russians,
 American casualties are %. 45a,
 c, The Germans sun have a huge net balance in tho war of attritlon To date the Allies have lost more by U'boat sinklngs than the Germans have lost through Anglo- bombing operations,
 Initiative Gained
 What we have gained is that priceless edge on tho enemy the initiative q" byrnes said, "but our enemies in Europe and Asln have not yet been struck A fatal blow, and we cannot relax Tor one moment in the vigorous prosecution of the offensive"
 Turning Co Inc home front, he said lt frequently was said that oondl ,ions at homo were worse than . year ago that there has been ' tendency Co slow down the prcduc. ] ton pace and quarrel among our
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but this line was shattered by the commando landing south of Mes sina.
 The collapse of enemy resistance along the north coast was demon strated by the ease with which American warships landed amphi- bious troops near Milazzo early Monday. Only last week, a bloody battle developed when a similar force landed west of Cape DOT lando.
 Allied reconnaissance pilots re- ported decreased anti-aircraft fire over Messina Strait beginning yes- terday and 1t soon was apparent that the Axis was about to end its evacuation attempt. Soon afterward fire from the Italian mainland was stepped up, indicating that some guns had been ferried across from Sicily.
 Artillery Duel
 Allied and Axis artillery were duelling across Messina Strait.
 A naval communique said Allied naval forces sighted Amis demoli- tions in northeastern Sicily and also on the mainland near Reggie Gala bria Saturday night.
 That same night, 1t added, the warships bombarded southwestern Italy, sending 1000 shells into Port Scalea on the south side of the Gulf of Policastro and hitting shore bat teries on Cape Pellaro. Early Mon- day, other naval forces bombarded Port Vibo Valentia on the Gulf of Eufemia. Gunboats and destroyers also bombarded the east coast road to Messina daily while light coastal forces operated in the Straits night ly.
 British warships were credited with sinking an armed lighter and two escort craft early Monday south of Cape Bonifati. American naval units drove off a light forma- ton of enemy torpedo boats north of Messina yesterday.
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doglio, and King Victor Emmanuel in their demands for peace.
 The left-wing coalition Giustizia E Liberta-justice and liberty-made up of the Socialist, Communist, Christian-Democratic, Liberal and action parties has issued another peace proclamation denouncing both Badoglio and the Fast King" for prolonging Italy's participation in the war, frontier dispatch said.
 "Badoglio,s dictatorship is Fas- cism without Mussolini," the proc lamation was quoted. we insist on immediate cessation of the war because the war is @ Fascist one. We insist on immediate cessation of war because in the military field everyone knows that Italy already is defeated and to continue to fight will only increase and multiply the number of victims and the deStruc- tion of our cities without amelio- rating in any manner the condi- tions of the armistice.
 Must DethrOne King
 'The Allies must dethrone Victor Emmanuel because he, together with Badoglio, has led Italy to defeat and it is therefore right that demands for surrender be handed them and signed by them"
 The proclamation warned that the coalition would start propaganda and preparations for general strike throughout Italy" if the gov- ernment did not make peace.
 Air passengers arriving in Bar celona from Rome following Fri- days air raid said everyone there appeared to want peace. One pas scnger said the Germans have 22 divisions-330,000 men-in northern Italy.
 Despite the Italian governments announcement that Rome would be converted immediately into an open city, reports reaching Madrid from France said the demilitarization pro- cess seemed proceeding slowly.
 Open City" Preparations
 So far, it was said, preparations have been made only to inaugu- rate bus and truck shuttle service between railroad junctions north and south of Rome. Thus Ger man troops moving north from southern Italy would be taken by highway around the capital and re-embarked on trains north of the city.
 Some sources suggested that the Italians were anxious to get the shuttle service in operation as soon as possible, not because of the open city declaration, but because Rome's railroad yards were unuseable as result of the two American air raids.
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selves. But he recalled the great strides in war production a pro- gram which has caused one strut ting dictator to fall almost before the real fighting began and which has brought fear to the heart of every tyrant and hope to the breast of every lover of liberty"
 In addition to revealing the new food-price program, Byrnes cited these other phases of the admins tration's strategy to win the battle against imitation and production:
 l. An order issued by the War Labor Board and approved by Pres ident Roosevelt permitting an eight hour day and a 48-hour week ir coal mines designated by Secretary of the Interior Harold L. Ickes as federal custodian of the mines Byrnes said the step was necessary because we need more coal" anC because of "the threatened coa shortage"
 2. A comprehensive food pro. gram" developed by War Food Ad. ministrator Marvin Jones which i. ready for submission to the Pres ident and to Congress when it re- convenes.
 3. The need to draw off nearly $20 1000, GOO, 900 in excess purchasing power by taxation or by enforced savings. Byrnes said we had spent too much time arguing how much past taxes should be forgiven, in stead of getting down to the grin business of imposing the higher taxes which total war requires
 Byrnes assailed the noisy minor. ities engaged in intrigues and cabal. to belittle the war effort of the ma. tion both on the home and fighting fronts," and pleaded for greater ef- fort on the home front, declarinl that there is no room in total wal for the politics of pressure groups
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Allied Guns Blaze
 Now At Italy's Shore
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hy artillery Ire from the mainland.
 Some of this shell fire also was aimed at the Americans loving in against Messina, but the terrain in the northern tip afforded them bet ter protection.
 Lightning Advance
 A lightning advance of at least 20 miles brought the 3rd American Di- vision to outskirts of flaming. bomb- battered Messina at 8 o'clock last night and they moved into the city this morning.
 The British Eighth Army was be- heved only few miles south of Messina following 6 daring com- mando landing eight miles south of city and only nine miles across Messina Strait from Reggie Gala bria on the Italian mainland.
 Another American amphibious landing - the third in a week - also was announced. The Americans pushed ashore from assault boats early yesterday near Milazzo, l6 miles west Of Messina, but the town soon was far in the rear as the main forces effected a junction and slashed eastward.
 Enemy Resistance Crumples
 Enemy resistance crumpled rapid ~ in the face of the final Allied on- slaught and 1t was apparent that the Sicilian campaign had virtually ended five weeks and four days after American and British troops first landed on the southern shores of the island.
 MeSSina itself was only a burned out shell of the former modern city Of 176,500. The ruins resembled those left by the great earthquake of 1903, which razed the city.
 It had been bombed without res- pite since the last days of the Tuni- sian campaign with particularly heavy raids being directed against 1t In the past week during the small- scale Italo-G German Dunkirk evacu- ation to southern Italy.
 Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhowtr's s communique revealed that the next to-the-last chapter of the campaign yesterday saw the U. s. Seventh Army overrunning enemy defenses as far east as San Giorgio, on the north coast within five miles of the eastern tip of the island, and Gesso, i've miles west northwest of Messina, before pushing on into the base it. self.
 British 8th Army
 The British Eighth Army drove on thrnft0h nj miles south of Messina, in an eight mile advance from Taormina, the communique said, and then leap frogged their line another 10 miles to the north with a commando landing on the east coast across from Reggie Calabria.
 The commandos were shelled by Axis guns near Reggie Calabria, but quickly overcame sharp resistance put up by Axis rear guards and pressed northward toward Messina and rendezvous with the Seventh Army.
 The days only counter attack on either coast was repulsed by the British about five miles north of Taormina. Elsewhere the Axis again relied chiefly on demolitions of roads and bridges to delay the converging armies.
 Some Resistance
 Mobile enemy artillery also put up some resistance, but authorities emphasized that the guns were in isolated pockets.
 Captured documents showed that the Germans left two Italian coast- al regiments to hold line between Taormina and the north coast to eoYer the evacuation from Messina.
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Continued from Page D price or rationing problem in milk, iuel or poultry, an OPA represent ative attends only by invitation.
 Alter the committees iron out their problems, they map out a pro- gram which they present to the regional OPA for It's approval, After thls primary approval, the program Is considered b" the National OPA. Two such programs planned by New England advisory committees one in poultry, the other In milk now await Washington's approval,
 II the committees continue to work satisfactorily, Regional Ad- ministrator Kenneth B, Backman said, similar groups will he formed in retail trade, agriculture and for gfocera,
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NEW wLB APPOINTMENT

Washington. Aus. i7-tuP)--Thc War Labor board today announced appointment of Prof, r. N. Morgan, acting dean Of Harvard Law School, As chairman Of the VILE shipping nAnai.
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DOW TO OPEN BOSTON OFFICE

Midland. Mich. Aug, IT, Iup)-- The Dow Chemical Go. plans soon to open new bllsiness oiilces in Boa- ton it was announced today.
 Company ofIleials Said the expan- sion was necessltated by an increase In business.
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Trnckagc Of the North China Railway hRs increased 70 per cent. passenger traffic has tripled and freight has increased 80 per cent In the railways first four years.
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Fires First Shot At ItoIy

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By-Pass Strongholds
 In Brilliant Move
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Solomons area. And 1t was carried out with enough force to make it stick.
 Jumping on the double into land ing craft under command of Cox swain Leland H. Haslee of Engle- wood, Colo, we were sped to a coast lined with palm trees few hundred yards away. On that beach occurred the only mishap. The beach looked sandy but 1t was coral.
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Reds Close On Bryonsk

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Churchill,
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RAF Bombers Blast Turin

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Trouble In Scandinavia

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On Food State

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.hiSSpOrtimg
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Monday Sports Wash
By JOHN A. CLUNEY

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