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Canada Plans Additional
Latin American Legations

BY the Associated Press
OTTAWA. July l3.-Prime Minis
ter Mackenzie King said in the
House of Commons last night that
Canaoa could not long delay further
extension of diplomtic representa- :
ton in Latin America. and that he
hoped legations in Cuba and Peru
soon would be opened.
Mr. King said there should be no
delay about esta blishing legation
in Mexico, and he hoped that pro-
vision for this Office would be made
in supplementary estimates to be
placed before the House.
He said the growth of Canadian
interest in Latin American countries
had been matched by their interest
in Canada. Canadian legations
have been established in Argentina
Brazil and Chile and trade commits
sioners are maintained in Cuba
Mexico. Panama - shortly to be
moved to Colombia-and Peru.
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Canadians Shifted
To Mediterranean
Without Loss
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
LONDON, July 13.-The large Ca
madam expeditionsry force now TAX
ing part in the invasion OF Sicily
was transported from Britain to the
Mediterranean without the loss Of
man or a ship, dispatches from
Canadian Press War Correspondent
Ross Munro disclosed today.
Mr.. Munro, who made the trip
aboard the convoy, now is with the
Canadian forces in Sicily.
In a dispatch written on board
ship in the Central Mediterranean
July and just received here, he
told of the safe arrival OF the con-
voy and its junction with the great
Allied armada then gathering for
the invasion.
Every inch of the. long. tedious
journey from the United Kingdom
we had strong escort OF the Royal
Nays gallant little ships-destroy-
ers. frigates, corvettes and sloops,"
he wrote.
| Several times destroyers let go
patterns of depth charges"
| Mr.. Munro said the nature OF the
expedition was kept from the men
until they had been at sea several
days, when a special notice was post
| ed on the decks reading:
THE following message has been
received from the rear admiral or
/ this force. We are on our way to
the Mediterranean to take part in
the greatest combined operation ever
attempted. We shall be able to give
! fuller information later.
Later. Mr.. Munro wrote, the offl-
GERS were given detailed plans OF the
invasion. and when the instructions
were communicated to the troops
they seemed dumbfounded by the
magnitude of the operations and 1t
took a while for them to grasp 1t.
There was no cheering at first. he
wrote. but when the instructions
were completed the troops were lin
great form, joking and slapping each
others backs"
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Sicily
Continued From First Page.)

to be captured since the invasion of
Sicily began last Saturday.
Some German opposition has been
met, but not yet in force, and
though the Allies have not made
contact with two regular Italian di-
visions-presumably of much sterner
character than the coastal defend
ers-the enemy has failed to put
up really stiff resistance, Allied Of
| ficerS said.
Pilots of Allied bombers par
ticipating in the furious aerial
onslaught against Axis targets
throughout Sicily reported that the
Sicilian Straits still were choked
with transport and supply ships
carrying reinforcements to the Brit
ish. American and Canadian forces
which spesrheaded the invasion.
Axis forces. which for the second
time attempted to slow the Ameri-
can advance from the south. were
reported to have used tanks of
French origin. The counterattack
was known to have been smashed,
and reports from the front said Gen.
Patton's men were making good
progress
RaGusa Provincial Capital.
Ragusa, where the Americans and
Canadians were reported to have
made their junction. has popu-
lation Of $4,000 and is the capital of
the province of the same name.
ComiSo Airdrome, which was
pounded continually by the Allied
air force in the days preceding in
vasion. is only a few miles west OF
Ragusa and was expected TO fall
in matter of hours.
Palazzolo, due west of Syracuse
is the terminus OF a branch line
! from that port city. 1t has a popu-
lation of about 1900 and lies in
the shadow of Mount Laura
Allied headquarters announced
that more than 5000 vessels of all
types. including warships. now were
taking part in the tremendous task
of transporting men. munitions and
supplies to Sicily. The work was
said to be proceeding satisfa ctorily
despite a surf which had made
operations difficult at the more eX-
posed positions.
Meanwhile Allied bombers sup
porting ground troops continued
their heavy attacks on enemy troop
columns and communications yes
. terday, and destroyed or damaged
large numbers of enemy motor
! transports. it was announced at
! headquarters.
I The big bomberS, ranging also
north of Sicily to blast at Axis ship
ping and any attempts to reinforce
the islands defenders from the
mainland, sank two enemy mer-
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Another Exchange Ship
To Visit Japan, King Says
Rs The Associated Press,

By the Associated Press.
OTTAWA. July l3-Prime Min
lister Mackenzie King said in the
House of Commons last night that
a ship will make second exchange
trip to Japan this summer to bring
home nationals Of Canada, the
United States and one Latin Amer
lean country.
The nationals will be exchanged
for japanese in North America who
wish to return to Japan. he added.
Mr.. King made the statement dur
ing discussion of external affairs
estimates after telling a questioner
that negotiations were proceeding
for the further exchange Of nation
ais with Japan.
The Swedish liner Gripsholm made
a trip to Japan last year to bring
back repatriated Canadians. Amer
leans and nationals of other coun-
tries.
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New Reporting Setup,
Assistance by Army
Speed Invasion News
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
Better communications, Army aid
in getting out the news and will
ingness by United States newspapers
and press services to pool" their
eyewitness stories are bringing to
American newspaper readers an un-
usually vivid and well-rounded pic
ture of the Sicilian invasion.
The volume of military news from
Sicily, despite the greater remote
ness of that island in terms Of COM
munications. was said by 1t. Col.
Albert E. Warner of Army public re-
lations today to be enormously larg-
err than was transmitted in the early
stages of the North African landings
last November and it is coming
through faster.
The use of pooled copy Is run
ming 10 times greater than in the
North African operations. 1t was
estimated by Col Warner, who
helped work out with the Office of
War Information the arrangements
by which a story by one CORE
spondent may be carried bv all
news agencies under his signature
with the words representing the
combined United States press
This treatment is used mainly
for eyewitness accounts of sorues
and operations on which only one
or two writer's can be taken. In adj
Gition, of course. each news agency
and the larger newspapers have
their own correspondents filing di-
rect from bases In North Africa,
over facilities which have been
steadily improved and expanded
since the British and Americans
took over
The advantages of pooling news
are tWofold: All newspapers can
get complete picture of every d.
verse phase of the complex land,
sea and air campaign: and at the
same time. the burden of news
wordage does not interfere with "a
dio circuits which are damned with
military orders and reports.
A correspondents story from the
battle front is sent to Algiers by
the Army Signal Corps, probably
by plane or fast ship. to avoid jam
ming wireless circuits needed for
military messages. Cleared through
the routine censorship in North
Africa. it is dispatched from Algiers
on a Signal Corps wireless -teletype
circuit direct to the Pentagon
Building
The. Signal Corps promptly relays
the story TO headquarters of Owls
reign service division. where the
perforated tape OF the Signal Corps
copy is run into teletvpe transmit
tiers and sped into the New York
cable Offices of the big news gather
ing and distributing organizations.
Owl transmits the stories intact,
as received from the Signal Corps.
even including any errors which
NAV have entered in transmission
If parts of story are missing. or
if the second half arrives before the
first. the copy is held in Washington
long enough to permit check with
Aleiers to Straighten it out.
Similar combined British press
copy goes to London. where the
American agencies are free to choose
what they wish to cable TO the
United States.
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chant vessels and left two destroyers
ablaze, the communique said
The vessels were reported to have
been en- route to the island.
More than $4,000 pounds Of high
explosives we're dropped on the twin
targets of Reggie Calabria and San
Giovanni, Sicilian ferry terminals of
the Italian mainland, in daylight
raids yesterday by 100 Liberator
bombers of the United States 9Th
Air Force, an American air force
communique at Cairo said today.
The railway yards at San Gio-
Vanni were reported to have been
blanketed with hits and the entire
target area of Reggie Calabria was
well-covered with bursts by the
Liberators which attacked i'll four
waves.
Bomb bursts were noted all along
the railway tracks in the San Clio
vanni yards, the communique said,
and added that a large explosion
was seen in the siding area.
At Reggie Calabria, fuel and am
munition dumps were hit and large
fires started.
The Liberators met no fighter
opposition. but the communique de-
scribed the antiaircraft fire as very
heavy"
One of the bombers failed to
return.
The attack by the American bomb
ers followed up the attack made
by Halifax bombers of the Raj
on the night of July HIP when the
Reggie Calabria airfield was the
target. The raiders reported that
the field was dotted with bursts
and that several small fires were
started around the perimeter of the
field.
The Monte and Cervino airflelds
in Italy were attacked by Allied
bombers Sunday night.
Twenty-eieht enemy planes We're
destroyed during yesterdays OPP
erations at loss OF II Allied planes
the communique added.
Eisenhower Visits Sicily.
Gen Dwight d. Eisenhower, Al
lied commander in chief, who
reached Sicily yesterday to confer
with his front-line generals. ex-
pressed satisfaction with the inva
sions progress. Gen. Eisenhower re-
turned to an Allied command post
in North Africa today.
Gen. Eisenhower said the co-ordi-
nation of his invading armies "coulc
not have been better had all the
forces been those of some single
nation
AS the fourth day of the cam
paign began. American, British and
Canadian forces had extended their
southeastern beachneads to a front
$50 miles long. had captured several
major towns and had taken at least
5000 prisoners.
Official reports said the cities cap
tured yesterday were Syracuse. Pa
chino, on Cape Passero at the ex-
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Rx JOHN GUNTHER.

Representing the Combined American Press
DISTRIBUTED by the Associated Press) Z
SOMEWHERE IN SICILY, July
13.-Our first sight of Sicily yester-
day came near Celia just before
dawn after quick, secret voyage
across the Mediterranean.
When Gen. Eisenhower stepped
ashore aStonished soldiers stared at
him. We found an officer and Gen.
Eisenhower said:
How do you do? I am Gen. Els
enhower."
Our first stop was a scene of
great activity Cruisers were firing
on the invisible enemy behind the
hills. Their angry guns cracked,
echoes doomed across the beaches
and yellow smoke slowly lifted.
Conference Called.
Gen. Eisenhower watched the
scene with close attention and then,
assisted by his naval aide. Comdr.
Harry Butcher. held breakfast
conference with 1t. Gen. George
S. Patton. jr, Vice Admiral Henry
X Hewitt. commander Of the am
phibious force of the Atlantic fleet,
and other high-ranking officers.
We then steamed along the coast
and made landfall near the eX-
IRENE southeastern end of Sicily.
We passed various naval units, some
of them American, and to all Gen.
Eisenhower Signaled the message:
Congratulations and good luck"
We saw black bomb bursts on
the shore but could not tell what
they were. For the most part the
coastal villages looked peaceful and
deserted.
Two aircraft were spotted far
overhead and the crew took to their
battle stations until the scare proved
to be false alarm-it was dawn
patrol Spitfires.
Used "Amphibious Jeep."
The youthful commander of our
destroyer. who was wearing blue
turtleneck sweater and white shorts,
talked to Gen. Eisenhower on the
bridge while senior officers. most Of
them in long boards. watched.
Gen. Eisenhower was most eager
to visit the Canadians and greet
them and we disembarked near one
of their beachheads. But the word
disembarked doesn't give the right
impression.
We left our destroyer in what is
known as an 'smphibious jeep" and
had the rare experience of driving
right through water and straight
, up on the beach.
The troops had no idea that Gen.
Eisenhower was coming. Some were
swimming of the beach. others were
cooking. laying roads. building jet
ties or organizing watch posts and
sentry boxes.
Visited Canadians.
The commander in chief walked
through thick dust and found the
beach commander British colonel.
who said the Canadians were far
Their up. Gen. Eisenhower borrowed
a jeep and We followed in our am
phibious craft, which never had
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treme southeastern tip of Sicily:
Avola and MOTTO. midway between
Syracuse and Pachino: Scoglitti,
Celia and Pozzalo, on the southern
coast. and Ispica and Rosolini in
the southern area.
Axis Must Make Choice.
The position of the Allied armies
the Americans on the west, the
Canadians in the center and the
British in the east, with cluster
of mountains between-denied the
Axis a central point at which to
launch a counterattack and forced
them to make choice between
the three advancing forces.
When they did strike it was
against the Americans. The 4th
Livorno Division, bolstered with
mot less than As tanks" as the
official description put it, hit the
American position on the shore. A
powerful barrage from Allied war
ships in the bay helped to break
up the attack.
During these critical hours the
Axis radio several times mentioned
an Allied thrust IN the neighbor-
hood of MARSHA, more than 100 miles
away on the extreme western end OF
Sicily.
There was no official confirma tior
from Allied headquarters of an at.
tack IN that quarter, but the threat
of a landing in the west may have
contributed to the enemy's delay il
launching an all-out ofensiv,
against the Allied bridgeheads in tn,
east
Should the British succeed il
reaching Messina and continue Il
hold the coast road down to Cap
PaSsero. the Axis army would be Gu
of from its only avenue of escape
across the Messina Strait to tn,
Italian mainland.
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Jap Supply Bases
In Burma DESTROYED

BY the Associated Press
NEW DELHI, July 13.-Devastat-
ing raids by American Liberator
bombers and P-40 Warhawk fighter
bombers have destroyed japanese
supply and administrative bases in
Northern Burma, a United States
communique said today.
Liberator bombers of the 10th
United States Army Air Force
dropped more than II tons of bombs
on enemy railway installations at
Yvatung yesterday. but clouds pre-
verified an accurate assessment OF
damage.
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fOugner passage on water than on
that Sicilian road. Near tomato
patch, I saw my first enemy
Sicilian. boy Of IA on bicycle.
He grinned and waved and want
ed to have his picture taken. But
one should not deduce from this
that all Sicilians are friendly. Sun
day night three British soldiers on
sentry duty had their Threats cut
The persistent Gen. Eisenhower
found a Canadian captain. j. e
Moore of Vancouver, after hot and
dusty search He gave Capt Moore
message to transmit to the Ca
madam general ahead.
Shippers were active in this area
The generals agile ieep and our
water wagon wheeled around, got
separated and. roaring through the
dust, found our way separately back
to the beach.
Visited British Admiral.
Gen. Eisenhower chatted with the
men near the landing stage and
then said, pointing to our unnatural
craft:
rs our flagship ready?"
A naval officer griRned and re-
pied:
Are you prepared to set sail, sir?'
The general clsmbered aboard and
we ground down to the beach and
smoothly entered the water. It's a
wonderful way to travel on both
land and sea, and Gen. Eisenhower
enjoyed being the guest of the Royal
Navy.
We then visited the headquarters
ship of the British admiral, had
drinks during two afraid alerts and
finally got back to our destroyer.
Gen. Patton and Admiral Hewitt
and other officers gave Gen. Eisen-
hover the up-to-the -minute picture
and filled him in on many pictur-
esque details. For instance. the guns
of one American cruiser broke up an
Axis tank attack Sunday and de-
stroyed several tanks single-handed
though many miles away. This
must be one Of the first recorded
instances of battle between a
ship at sea and tanks on land.
Destroyer Captured Village.
American ships roam offshore like
floating forts. Farther up the coast
one village was literally captured by
two destroyers. I asked one officer
when the Luftwaffe had been oper-
ating and he answered briefly,
Constantly"
Enemy action on this scale Is
more or less inevitable in the for.
ward area where it is difficult to
put our aircraft into action. The
officer described the enemy tech
nique:
Those devils streak in from be.
hind the hills and skim through the
ravires They fly so low they cant
be spotted. Then they bomb and
machine-gun the beaches before oui
Spitf1res high up can get down"
We are countering this technique
by steady advance on land
Gen. Eisenhower was delighted to
have personal confirmation from the
men who partook that our forces
hit almost every beach on the but
ton" in the initial phases of the
operation.
In one sector four Italian lieuten-
ant colonies walked up and surren-
dered and blandly explained that
the reason they were caught was
that they were making personal
first line reconnaissance
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Field Army
Continued From First Page

trained Of Americas millions of SOL
diers. ~,
Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, Allied
commander in chief, himself during
mis- military career of more than
quarter century served with one of
the fresh units.
Addressing them at an African in
vasion port few days before they
sailed. Gen. Eisenhower told the
men of this unit:
III see you on new battle line
it won't be long Good luck!'
/ Gen Sir Bernard L. Montg
British 9th Army like Gen. Patton's
American It'll. combines veterans
with battle freshmen. augmented by
an air-borne striking force. Divi-
sions which broke the Ell Alamein
line. stormed Mareth entertainments
and blasted the Wadi Ell Akarit po-
toric march to Tunis are still fight
ing under Monty
In addition. highly trained Cana
dams whose Dieppe expedition set a
high standard of valor are an i'm
portsnt element of the British on
rush.
Gems. Montgomery and Patton. OBJ
servers agree. rate as the most dis
tinguished British American field
commanders in Western Europe.
Captured African Coast.
Gen. Montgomery's record of I'M
broken success in chasing the Ger
man African Corps 1000 miles in
spired some of Prime Minister
Churchill's most brilliant oratory.
Gen. Patton was spotlighted as a
character of blood and CUTS" while
he was still in the United States.
He captured the Atlantic coast
stretch of French Africa last No.
vember in probably the fiercest en-
gagements of all the Allied landings.
Like 1t Gen. Mark w. Clark.
who is still commanding the 5th
Army in North Africa training
areas. Gen. Patton disappeared from
the battle scene But after Amer
lean divisions in Southern Tunisia
suffered temporarily heavy reverse
by Marshal Rommel's Kasserine
Pass offensive. Gen. Patton returned
to action with a newly constituted
I'd Corps.
Replacing Maj Gen. Lloyd r.
Fredendall and with more freedom
for individual decision than his
predecessor was allowed, Gen. Pat
tons first move was to inaugurate
stricter discipline among the troops.
Tie and Legeings" Gen. Patton
was nicknamed for his rigid orders
that no American soldier on the
Tunisian front should be seen with
out wearing these articles.
Had Long Tank Training.
Ironically. Gen. Pattons long
training in tank warfare found lit
tie room for application in South
ern Tunisia in March and April for
it was chiefly knock doWn-drag
out infantry fight which the Ameri-
cans staged on Marshal Rommefs
flank while Gen. Montgomery was
smashing frontally up the African
coast.
After the British 9th Army and
the American I'd Corps made their
junction in the Ell Guettar area.
Gen. Patton again disappeared
from the scene, being called to a
new, secret assignment. To him
Gen. Eisenhower entrusted the
American Army now fighting in
Sicily.
In Sicily, the first days of the
fighting have been mainly an in
fantry show" for the Americans, al
though the enemy hurled the heav-
lest armored blow of the new cam
paign against them Sunday in the
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Planes Alone Won't Win
Kiska, Gen. Lynd Says
By The Associated Press.

SAN FRANCISCO. July 13.-Brig.
Gen. William E. Lynd. new COM
mander of the 4th Air Force. told a
press conference yesterday that air
force alone cannot drive the Japa-
neSe out of the Aleutians.
The 49-year-old general, who sue
ceeded Maj Gen. William E. KEEP
ner over the week end. said We've
been bombing Kiska for the last
year. and the Japs still haven't left"
He placed under opinion not
worth much" any comment on the
possibilities of japanese attack
on the West Coast. AS to the jap
anese generally, ne said they do
not leave any place they hold. They
don't go away You just kill them"
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Eisenhower, on Visit to Sicily,
Uses Water Jeep' as Flagship

John Gunther, representing
the combined American press,
tells in the following dispatch
OF the trip to Sicily OF Gen.
Dwight d. Eisenhower. the Al
lied commander in chief. The
first part OF the dispatch pas
lost in transmission from North
Africa
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Southern Rhodesio Dam

Southern Rhodesias new Ncema
Dam is al feet high. $50 feet long
and has a capacity OF 100000, 900
gallons of water.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-07-13

The best way to root for victory
is to dig deep into that pocketbook
or purse and buy War savings
stamps.
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Americans Captured
Licata Port With Loss
OF Only -Four Men

Herbert White, 35-year old As
socidted Press photographer
operating for the maritime still
Photographic pool. brought back
first pictures of the Siciltan land
inoS, and the following first eye
4pitness story OF the Allies light
ming capture OF Licato. Mr.. White
joined the A. p. in, Washington,
in 1882, and in January, 1912.
,uas assigned to Panama os a pool
photographer. He left on his
latest assignment in December,
1912, and arriped in Cairo Feb
rudry 4, I943)