AXIS 'REPORTS
INVADERS PRACTICALLY LIQUIDATED LONDON, July 12. Rome radio claims that more Allied parachute troops were dropped over Sicily last night, \" but they were quickly located and made harmless. The process of liquidation of the enemy forces -is proceeding in a most satisfactory manner. The fighting is extremely violent and incessant, but its general development indicates that enemy hopes have been shattered." According to Berlin radio the Italians and Germans have dispersed the British and American unite, cut them off from their supplies, wiped out all the parachute troops, and narrowed down the bridgeheads. Axis circles, however, do not deny that the hardest fighting is still to come. " Allied attempts to penetrate the island have been frustrated," Paris radio claims. " Mass air battles are going on." The Berne correspondent of the ' New York Times ' says that, psychologically speaking, the materialisation of what lias .hitherto been! regarded as a vague threat seems to have welded the Italian nation into a single bloc. Should operations reach a stalemate, Mussolini's popularity is indefinitely assured.
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Evening Star, Issue 24915, 13 July 1943, Page 3
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172AXIS 'REPORTS Evening Star, Issue 24915, 13 July 1943, Page 3
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