TIME COME FOR A DECISION

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXX, Issue 21149, 17 July 1943, Page 3

TIME COME FOR A DECISION

“DIE FOR HITLER OR LIVE FOR ITALY” FORCES PUSHING FORWARD IN SICILY

(By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright.) (11.45 a.m.) LONDON, July 1(1 “The time lias come for you to decide whether you cue ioi Mussolini and Hitler or live for Italy and civilisation,” said Mi-. Winston Churchill and President Roosevelt in a joint message to the Italian people. “At this moment the combined armed forces of Britain, America, and Canada, under the command of General Eisenhower and his deputy, General Alexander, are carrying the war deep into your country. Tliis is the direct consequence of the shameful leadership to which you have been subjected by Mussolini and his Fascist regime. The sole hope of Italy’s survival lies in an honourable capitulation to the overwhelming military power of. Hie United Nations. If you continue to tolerate the Fascist regime you must sutler the consequences of your choice.” General Eisenhower and General Alexander have gone to Sicily. * The Commander-in-chief drove around in a jeep for a look round the front. General Alexander, who on Tuesday visited the American sector, travelled to the island again yesterday and spent several hours ashore in the British sector, visiting General 'Montgomery at his headquarters. He made the trip in a British destroyer. 1 Prisoners taken in Sicily are believed to number well over 18,000. A correspondent at Allied Headquarters says that the American Seventh Army alone has taken 10,000. The battle for the Lent ini bottle-neck —the gateway to the Catanian plain—is in full swing, says a report from Algiers. More Allied paratroops and air-borne troops have been dropped to reinforce those already lighting behind the Axis forces deployed on the plain behind the bottle-neck. The Allies hold more than 1000 square miles, which is one-eighth of Sicily. The Americans are reported to have captured Campobcllo, about 1miles north of Licata.