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Press, Volume LXXIX, Issue 23972, 12 June 1943, Page 1

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. « FALL OF PANTELLERIA Giving details of the surrender of Panlellcria, the 8.8.C.’s correspondent in North Africa says that Allied troops began to land at noon to-day, after the Italians had run up the white flag early this morning. The first troops encountered slight resistance, because some enemy elements had not been informed that the commander of the garrison had surrendered: but all the first objectives were in our hands 22 minutes after the landing. The landing operations were supported by strong naval forces. The correspondent comments that the island was conquered from the air. On the last day, yesterday, Allied aeroplanes of all types gave the Mand its heaviest blitz. During the day thity dropped a greater weight of bombs on the island than was dropped on Sicily. Sardinia, and the Italian mainland during the whole of April. Thirtyseven enemy aircraft were shot down during the day, for the loss of six Allied aeroplanes.—London, June 11, INVASION CRAFT AT BRITISH PORTS The German naval spokesman (Admiral Luetzow), at a press conference in Berlin, said that light invasion craft were assembled at British ports along the Channel. This did not necessarily mean that action was imminent, as such concentrations had been observed before, but the Germans were closely watching events.— Stockholm, June 11,