Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 15 July 1943 — Page 12

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EW STRAINHITS NERVES OF AXIS

Puppets Worry About New Blow Expected in

Europe.

LONDON. July 15 (U, P.).—Ner-

Vousness over the direction of the

next allied blow is spreading among! their

occupation authorities and puppets throughout occupied Europe, dispatches reported today.

(Benito Mussolini ordered two

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More Italian provinces—Campania, | ;

of which Naples is the capital, and Lucania—declared war zones, British radio said, quoting a German broadcast. Previously. most of the rest of southern Italy had been put under similar orders. The two provinces are on the west side of the peninsula facing Sicily.)

Troops Jittery

The Italian newspaper Mecsagero asserted that the allies were shifting “their whole war potential” in the Mediterrancan to Sicily ‘perhaps to execute without interruption the invasion of Europe.” From Stockholm came a report that German occupation troops in eoastal areas were so Jittery over the possibility that allied might land on their shores that they were shooting at their own shadows and at floating timber. A Cairo dispatch reported ‘“‘considerable” unrest in Bulgaria, Premier Bogdan Filov left Sofia on a sudden visit to occupied Greece to inspect defense works after declaring that Bulgaria would oppose an allied invasion, the Hellenic news agency said.

SLAIN MILLIONAIRE TO BE BURIED TODAY

DOVER-FOXCROFT, Me. July 15 (U. P.).—Sir Harry Oakes, millionaire baronet bludgeoned to death in the bedroom of his home in Nas-

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fed today funeral services. Alfred de Marigny, husband of 8ir Harry's daughter, Nancy, 19, is being held in Nassau in connection with Oakes’ death.

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Turkey, Spain and Italy Look at Record, Lose

Faith in Nazis.

By HARRISON SALISBURY United Press Staff Correspondent LONDON, July 15.—The success of the allied Sicilian operation— which now is increasingly believed to be assured—already is causing far-reaching political repercussions which should materially ease the allied cause when the Italo-Balkan phase of the war is reached. It has been said repeatedly that

up an impressive list, starting with Stalingrad and running through the African landings and the Russian | winter sucgesses to the Sicilian in- | vasion, not to mention the air battle of western Europe which switched from a nip-and-tuck fight to a one{way allied bomb path.

| Unbroken Record

| For eight months the allies have

ALLIES IMPRESS

the best propaganda for any side is victory and the allies are rolling |

[Turkish attitude has been emergence NV A ION OF SICILY { from strict neutrality to friendly | |non-belligerency, There still are BEWILDERED NAZIS

| strong doubts that the Turks ever will participate actively with the] By UNITED PRESS | united nations but there might be a| Despite repeated axis claims to | good many ways in which a friendly | the contrary, the allied landings in | Turkey could aid operations in the | sjeily caught the defending troops Dodecanese and the Balkans. loft guard and created such confu- : It also is certain that once the | sion the axis troops were firing at island approaches are cleared, the leach other in the initial phase of (Turks under the Montreaux con-| ihe assault, a Nazi radio station | vention will find no objections to the | admitted today. passage of allied convoys to Rus- | sia and the Black sea. This would| —M —————— shorten the supply lines to Russia

Spain Shifting Spain already and almost osten- |

lcisco Franco can held on in view of

As reported to the office of war

THURSDAY, JULY 15, 1943

| information, the broadcast quoted, a member of a German anti-air 'eraft battery that the initial assault “caused confusion and great, excitement” and that the soldiers

fired on each other “because we did not know what was happening.”

COOLEY TO TALK | William R. Cooley, proprietor of | Wayside gardens, will give a garden talk at a meeting of the Exchange [club tomorrow noon at the Claypool hotel.

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Allied Planes Supréme in the Sky Over Sicily

WASHINGTON, July 15 (U. P).;

—While the full extent of axis reoperations in unfolded, one

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sistance to Sicily has not | highly important fact stands out— the allies completely dominate the | ai, Military observers here said to|day that irrespective of the direction the ground operations take, {there can be only one end to the ' Sicilian campaign—complete axis !subjugation—uniess the axis can ! : : . reverse the position in the air, Allied domination of the air is what brought the quick collapse of the axis after the final attack in Tunisia, although the enemy had 250.000 well supplied troops there.

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far they haven't diverted any aerial

Many of them were American landing craft of various types.

Pantelleria and the other small Italian It is believed here events will! follow the same general lines in | Sicily unless the axis elects to chal-| lenge the allied air forces. The allies would he glad to enter into an all-out contest for supremacy with the German air force, and probably would just as soon have it occur now over Sicily as any-| where else. The allies are confident their aircraft production is outdistancing the axis. In aerial combat the odds are favorable to the allies. Thus

strength from Britain to support operations in the Mediterranean; the allies could call this into the

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{established an unbroken record of tribute tellingly to distaste of the |successes. Even the battle of the Italians for further fighting. | Atlantic has changed from a grim| The political softening up is be- | struggle for the convoys to allieved to be occurring in the Bal- | struggle by the U-boats for survival. kans. Rumania, Hungary and BulThe allies are getting to the point |garia already have given clear in- | where they can cash in on their |dications that they know which

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