America at war! (1941--) -- Part 2

Button your tongue – or you may help sink U.S. troopship

New booklet issued relatives of servicemen her explains how Axis spies ‘piece’ bits of information


Editors list OWI principles

Domestic service functions are reexamined

Merchant ship sunk off East Coast of U.S.

Giraud makes plea for arms

General seeks equipment for battle of France

Air Forces to leave Atlantic City Aug. 16

Plan to balk rationing of clothes given

Rationing is unnecessary if consumers, retail men cooperate

Nazi officials preparing for loss of Italy

Leaflets printed telling people how to resist occupying army
By J. Edward Murray, United Press staff writer

London, England –
German authorities are already preparing for Allied invasion and occupation of Italy, The Daily Telegraph’s diplomatic expert said today.

The Daily Telegraph dispatch said news had reached London that pamphlets were being printed at The Hague, Holland, to be scattered over Italy to instruct civilians in resisting an army of occupation.

Madrid dispatches said German units sent into the Sicilian frontlines fought only a delaying action, falling back whenever pressed.

Quoting reports from Italy, Madrid said the Fascists had complained the Nazi Luftwaffe was not fighting and that German tanks had been held out.

Appeals for planes

Madrid said Gen. Alfredo Guzzoni, commanding Italian forces, had appealed urgently to Benito Mussolini for more planes.

A Stockholm dispatch said Axis reports of the Sicilian fighting were “surprising favorable” for the Allies. Besides trying to temper the Nazi people for receiving news of Sicily’s fall, the propaganda may represent groundwork for an all-out counteroffensive which could be hailed as a major victory even if only partly successful, Stockholm said.

A Berlin dispatch to the Stockholm newspaper Dagens Nyheter said the Nazi press used an increasingly serious tone in discussing Sicily and that one expert, Heinz Bongartz, acknowledged the outcome of the struggle for the island would be “an important advance toward final victory.”

Orders scorched earth

Madrid said it was understood the Italian General Staff ordered Sicilian garrison commanders to destroy all facilities as they retired or face court-martial. The threat, it was said, was made because the British 8th Army captured Syracuse practically intact.

Mussolini reportedly ordered three new Blackshirt divisions dispatched from Rome and Perugia for Sicily if they can cross the narrow straits. They would replace three divisions badly battered by the Allies, Madrid said.

Demonstrations in several Italian cities reported yesterday were said by Madrid to have been outbreaks by workers demanding peace. They were stopped only by police threats to shoot into crowds.

Treasury expert hits ‘forced’ bond sales

13 indicted by U.S. for lynching Negro

Wife of John W. Davis, 1924 candidate, dies

Allied French take control in Martinique

Bastille Day message to France by Roosevelt pledges freedom

U.S. warships shell attacking German tanks

Destroyers fire over Patton’s line in Sicily to help repel enemy with heavy losses
By Richard D. McMillan, United Press staff writer

American gunners prove German Stuka’s ‘all done’

Reporting on Tunisia, colonel says dive bomber is ‘slow, easy to catch and easy to hit’

Fascist slogan blotted out by some Sicilians

‘Eviva George VI’ put in place of tribute to Mussolini
By John Gunther, representing combined American press

Daily cost of war about $265 million

Editorial: That youngster Stimson

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Editorial: The Fourteenth

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Edson: Uncertainty over drafting fathers to be continued

By Peter Edson

Ferguson: Air-minded generation

By Mrs. Walter Ferguson

Why women are ‘like that’ subject under discussion

Boys ask the question; girls try to answer
By Ernest Foster

Millett: War wife has right to travel

Legion head gets ‘slapped’ for criticism
By Ruth Millett

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