200 MILES CAPTURED
ITALIANS FAVOUR ALLIES (Received Sept. 8. 1 p.m.) LONDON, Sept. 7 About 200 square miles of the toe of Italy has fallen to the British and Canadians without a fight except for a few contacts with the German rearguards, which withdrew as soon as they were encountered, states a Canadian press correspondent. He adds: “This is the main change since the landing—namely, we have caught up with the Germans sufficiently to force them to cover their demolition forces with light rearguards. The chief enemy at present is dynamite. Some resistance frem Italian paratroops is reported, otherwise not a single Italian has fought. The Algiers radio says the Allies now hold the first chain of the Aspromonte Mountains. Many prisoners declare that no Italians anywhere in Italy would fight against the British and Americans.
The German news agency says the Allies’ strategy since the landing on Calabria suggests that the enemy has undertaken this action only as a blind to screen further operations.
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Waikato Times, Volume 132, Issue 22137, 8 September 1943, Page 5
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