PRESS CRITICISM
Recd. 6 p.m. London, Nov. 15. The Allied campaigns in Italy and the Dodecanese are criticised in the British Press.
Captain Liddell Hart, military correspondent of the Daily Mail, says that in Italy the advance has been disappointing and the Allies seem to be in danger of losing the initiative. The Daily Herald says that Britisl troops should not have been landed in the Dodecanese Islands unless they were strong enough to hold them (the Germans captured three of the four islands on which Allied troops landed in September and have now invaded a fourth).
Mr. Richards, the Daily Express military correspondent, says that the loss of small islands in the Dodecanese is not more than a temporary setback in the course of the war, but it does mean a cheap propaganda victory for the Germans in the Middle East and perhaps the sacrifice of crack British troops. Mr. Richards says that one of the difficulties facing the Allied commanders is inability to get reinforcements to Leros as easily as the Germans, who have nearer bases.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 87, Issue 272, 17 November 1943, Page 5
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