ALLIED SHIPPING LOSSES.
NEW YORK, Aug. 2.—Six ships were sunk in the West Atlantic In July, compared with an average of 10) a week in the first year of the war. United States Western Atlantic losses since Pearl Harbour total 272. Allied and neutral losses in the same area total G 76. TOUCHES'!’ JOU IN SICILY. RUGBY; August 2.—Reuter’s correspondent says the Fiftieth Northumberland and F.ifty-firsfi Highland Divisions have attackecf in-the toughest part of -the whole of the enemy's lines, across a no* man’s land, heavily ’ mined and pitted with craters, under heavy cross-fire. To the south-east British and Canadian troops are making a three-pronged attack towards the German defences in the foot* hills. At one point men from a south-east English regiment fought their way to a hill top where furious fighting is reported to he going on.
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Evening Star, Issue 24933, 3 August 1943, Page 6
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