WAR BULLETINS
Jap cargo ship sunk; 3 blasted off Attu
Washington (UP) –
U.S. bombers have attacked four Japanese cargo ships 280 miles southwest of Attu and have sunk one of them, left a second in sinking condition and damaged the remaining two, the Navy announced today.
400 wounded saved as Axis sinks hospital ship
Allied HQ, North Africa (UP) –
Axis forces sank a fully loaded Allied hospital ship Saturday night during the Sicilian operations, it was disclosed today. Four hundred wounded troops were transferred from the ship without loss of life.
Italian horse cavalry charges Allies
Allied HQ, North Africa (UP) –
Old-fashioned Italian horse cavalry was reported to have charged Allied troops invading Sicily. Dispatches from the island said that at one point the horsemen charged the heavily-armored Allied troops, “but were quickly repulsed.”
Boro flier sees battle line move inland
Allied HQ, North Africa (UP) –
Spotter Sanford Arkin of Brooklyn, New York, of the Air Force, reported that the line of fires burning along the battlefront was moving inland steadily. On his flight over Sicily, he saw fresh Allied convoys pouring in masses of men and guns while the Air Forces were lashing the enemy in increased tempo.
Canadian House hears of Allied gains
Ottawa, Canada (UP) –
Prime Minister King told the House of Commons today that:
The first phase of the operations in Sicily has proceeded according to plan and the Allies are now striking into the interior of the island.
He said:
Sicily is only a small bridgehead. There must be many other bridgeheads established before the final struggle even begins.
Rommel gives alert order in South France
Madrid, Spain (UP) –
German Marshal Erwin Rommel, commanding anti-invasion defenses in southern France, has ordered his forces to “stand to” on the alert against Allied landings, reports reaching here from Vichy said today.
Rommel was also said to have informed the Italian High Command that he has sufficient troops to take over the protection of the Italian zone of the French Riviera and Corsica, but Rome failed to accept the offer.
Bulgaria rushes reserve troops to Aegean Sea
Ankara, Turkey (UP) – (July 11, delayed)
Bulgaria rushed all reserve officers and men from Sofia to the fortified line along the Aegean Sea today as reports of Allied successes in Sicily reached the Bulgarian capital, according to advices received today from Istanbul.
The military activity plus false reports of Allied landings at Salonika, Greece, caused a panic in Sofia. Word received here indicated the Axis might have had advance knowledge of the Allied Invasion because Bulgarian-Turkish telephone communications were cut off in Bulgaria on July 8.
Nazis claim they hurl Yanks into sea
London, England (UP) –
The official German DNB Agency, in a dispatch broadcast by the Berlin radio, said today that German troops in southern Sicily had thrown a U.S. “formation” back into the sea.
To the west of the German operation, the dispatch said, Italian troops engaged U.S. formations pushing into the interior of the island and threw them back to the coast.