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THE MANCHESTER GUARDIAN, FRIDAY, AUGUST 13, 1943 5 FORTS' TRIPLE ATTACK MR. CHURCHILL IN THE U.S. Stalin Memorandum 100 MORE PLACES TAKEN IN ADVANCE TO BRYANSK Another Big Drive Forward CAPTURES NEAR KHARKOV: MOVE FROM DONETS BRIDGEHEAD German Oil Plants 23 NAZI FIGHTERS SHOT DOWN "SECOND PHASE" OF THE TALKS EVACUATION OF SICILY DEVELOPING A. A. "Umbrella" Over Straits NAVY AND R.A.F.

INFLICTING HEAVY LOSSES Germans' Ruthless Way With Italians From E. A. MONTAGUE, our Special Correspondent NEW AMERICAN LANDING In Enemy's Rear ANOTHER RANDAZZO EXIT SEALED From our Special Correspondent Algiers, August 12. By a second amphibious operation on the north coast of Sicily the Americans have landed east of Cape Orlando, at the mouth of the Naso River, and are seeking to establish a bridgehead. This time the enemy, warned by Sunday's operation, was ready for tne attackers, but with not sufficient strength to repel a force so highly trained and so determined as tne American First Army task forces Large formations of United States Flying Fortresses yesterday carried out one of their heaviest raids on Germany, when a triple attack was made on synthetic oil plants at Gelsenkirchen (north-east of Essen) Mr.

Churchill crossed yesterday to the American side of Niagara Falls after arriving on the Canadian shore from Quebec and left for an undisclosed destination in the United States, said Reuter's correspondent in The Russians had another successful day yesterday. On the way from Orel to Bryansk they again advanced, this time from six to seven miles. and Wesserling (south of Cologne) and occupied over 20 inhabited localities. Including the town of Chuguyev ion the west bank of the Donets). On other fronts, our troops conducted fighting reconnaissance.

There were artillery and mortar exchanges. During August 11 on all fronts 56 uerman tanks were disabled or destroyed. Forty-eight enemy aircraft were destrojed in combat or by A.A. artillery. Many of the towns captuied in the drive towards Bryansk are round and on an industrial target at Bonn, the Ruhr.

capturing over 100 places. They are now about four and a half miles east of Karachev. On the Kharkov front, where they had to overcome enemy resistance and The operations were supported bv American. R.A.F.. Dominion, and Allied fighters and fighter-bombers and were made in the face of intense anti-aircraft fire.

Preliminary reports from the Quebec last night. It is reported that he is going to meet Mr. Roosevelt and that the Quebec discussions will afterwards be resumed. The United States censorship allowed American journalists to record only the bare facts of the entry of the party at Niagara Falls and permitted no further reports. Strict regulations governing the movements of high personages are Karachev.

some twenty miles east of Bryansk. One is 4j miles east, another six miles east, another eisht south-east, and one six miles to the north. nave shown themselves to be. But crews taking part show that fires were counter-attacks, they occupied over twenty more places, including Chuguyev, the bridgehead cn the west bank of the Donets. Chuguyev was previously taken by it cannot even now be asserted that left burnine at each of the three centrjs.

success is secure as advance detach 55i ments from land have not vet linked up with the bridgehead. Bremen 7 Berlin Hznovcr the Russians in the winter offensive but lost in the German counteraction in March. Its loss deprives the Germans of the main buttress of their defences east of Kharkov and opens up a menace to their sole remaining railway out of the city through Merefa to the south. The oEssen Leipzig By and large, therefore, the evacuation is not being carried out without heavy losses, but it is impossible to stop it completely, simply because geography makes it impossible to carry out any such break-through and sweeping round-up of the enemy forces as would prevent it. PASSPORT A GUN The Germans are taking all equipment possible, and troops are ordered to bring their weapons and all ammunition possible.

"The passport to Italy is a gun" is the flamboyant phrase in which their orders sum it Cologne Bearing in mind the communications in Sicily and the Allied strategy of depriving the enemy of one road centr3 after another, the intention of the new landing becomes fairlv clear At Orlando itself the road from Rarcdazzo reaches the coast. A small branch from it passing to the other side of the Naso River links with the coastal road half a mile or so beyond the river mouth. Possession of thess two road exits, besides denying the enemy a useful lateral across the Caronia Mountains and increasing congestion on the few roads still availabls to him. Rives us another avenue cf approach to rranktfirt -Prague Karachev is also deenlv outflanked rt a rx I advance to Merefa is through open I frm lhe south, where another Russian ivjiiL- urcuuira jjmnrovsK. "I miip BOHEMIA Nuremberg south-west of Kromv.

and almost half With the Eighth Army in Sicily, August 12. The Germans are evacuating steadily all troops and material not engaged in their rearguard actions in Sicily. This evacuation has been going on for at least ten days now, and though our naval and air forces have taken and are taking a big toll of them, it is impossible to stop a certain proportion from getting across. Something like eighty vessels of various kinds ferries, barges, lighters, and landing craft are engaged. Some go direct across the Straits of Messina.

Men and material are picked up at points along the coast south of Messina right up to Torre di Faro, the extreme north-eastUp of Sicily, and are taken to the nearest points on the Italian shore. NEARLY 500 A.A. GUNS These craft are protected bv an immensely strong concentration of anti-aircraft guns on both sides of the straits, variously estimated at from 200 to 250 heavy and from 120 to 230 light. fegensburg DP ny BAVARIA Munich country. For the first time since the Red Army struck from the Belgorod area nine days ago the communique did not record the number of miles advanced on the Kharkov front, probably a significant pointer to the efforts the Germans are making to up.

I SWITZER 7 LAND RAID ON TERNI On the mainland the biggest operation was a heavy attack on Terni by Fortresses, out on their first longdistance raid for nearly a week. Terni is one of the most important secondary communication centres in Central Italy'. now in force. Reuter's special correspondent, in an earlier cable from Quebec, stated It is understood that. Mr.

Churchill's trio has been undertaken since partial decisions have already been reached at the conference in Quebec. The British Prime Minister is believed to be engaeec in getting the second phase of the d.s-cussions under way." STALIN'S VIEWS ON STRATEGY Reuter adds that Marshal Stalin's absence from the Churchill-Roosevelt conference does not apparently mean that he is not taking part in it. According to military quarters in Washington a detailed report on the present military situation on the Eastern Front accompanied by Stalin's view on future strategy was presented on Russia's behalf through diplomatic channels. It is understood that Mr. Churchill and President Roosevelt will present this report to the combined Chiefs of Staff.

The Premier, accompanied by his daughter Mary and a large party, spent an hour and a half sightseeing on the Canadian side of the falls. He had travelled all night in a special train from Quebec He motored down the Niagara River as far as Quecnstown Heights, Ontario, to see the rapids. When he was asked whether the falls looked the same as when he first visited them in 1900 his reply was Well, the principle remains the same. The water still keeps falling." NEGRO AND A CIGAR Before boarding a special train Mr. Orders are that Italian guns and heavy transport are to be ruthlessly thrust off the road if they impede German movements and that no Italian military units are to be allowed on the roads unless they are under German command.

Feelins miLES hold open the forty-mile-wide corridor 6 too A nscit a manuiacturing town of some way to Sicvsk. which formerly marked the north-western limit of the winter advance from Kursk. The capture of the d.stnct centre of Kotclva fourteen m.les scuth-wcht oi Akhtyrka. which is also announced, brings the Red Army to within thirty miles ot Poltava. CHUGUYEV FIGHT Enemy is Retreating The supplement to last nihtV Soviet communique.

descnb.nK the fighting lor the town of Chuguvcv. savs that after stubborn fighting the enemy was thrown back from the town and i letreating under the blows of our units." The railway junctions of Poltava and Krasnograd weie raided bv Soviet 'planes on Wednesday night, savs Moscow radio. Enemy troop were wrecked and large tires bioke out accompanied by heavy explosions. "All our ant-raft returned safelv to their bases." taid the announcement. uv-iwccii me vjeiman ana Italian ionowme lines: sinp mm Ana MILES 50 tOO 150 out of Kharkov for the withdrawal of the garrison The Soviet High Command, however, indicates that enemy resistance and counter-attacks are being overcome and that the Russian offensive is still developing.

One Soviet force is now within five miles of Kharkov from the northeast. The communique said During August 12 our troops the Bryansk direction continued to develop their offensive and, advancing from 10 to 12 kilometres (6 to 7 miles), occupied over 100 inhabited localities. In the Kharkov direction, overcoming enemy resistance and counter-attacks, our troops continued to develep their offensive Enemy fighter resistance was particularly strong over Gelsenkirchen, and more than twenty enemy machines were destroyed by the bombers. Thunderbolts and Spitfires, which covered the withdrawal of the Fortresses, shot down three others. The attacking force flew at the highest altitude Fortresses have so far used in their operational flights, says a British United Press correspondent.

The temperature dropped to 45 below zero, and in consequence of severe icing, the I heavy vapour trails, and cloud detailed i observation was difficult. At Gelsen armies is growing steadily worse, and the Germans have even fired on Italian troops in the eastern sector. THE BATTLE FOR RANDAZZO Allied progress towards Randazzo fiom the west is still slow and difficult. British troops approaching it from Bronte have now been held up for 48 hours, but the Americans on the Cesaro-Randazzo road gained a mile or two yesterday and are now, nearly up to a point due north of Bronte. In the eastern coastal sector, after one fruitless day, we advanced another three miles yesterday and are now about fifteen miles north of Catania.

During the late afternoon we occupied a village on the coast and a small town about a mile inland Rgnem Vj VjferTfS Giovanni Churchill gave the victory salute to the crowds. As the train left Eddie Brady, a Negro porter, shouted. Mr. Churchill, one of your cigars, please." Mr. MOVE TO CUT OFF KHARKOV From our Special Correspondent kirchen, however bombs were seen to burst right across the target.

Twenty-five bombers are missing. Several, it is believed, were damaged by th3 heavy flak and. as they dropped behind their formations were attacked by enemy fighters. One Fortress which Churchill, leaning out of the carriage, took the cigar trom his mouth and I examined it regretfully. Then, appar- ently changing ins mind, he reached WILLS has undoubtedly been accumulated at this important base.

The loss of the railway to Pollava, in spite of the defenders' attempt tu make a stand, is a most serious blow for the Germans, who scarcely expected such weight still in Stockholm, August 12. The Russian Army had a particularly good day yesterday even for the present successful period on both the Orel-Bryansk front and also near Kharkov, as is shown by the capture 10 Pin ATS ROIOS was being attacked by M.E. north of Ghent was rescued by Canadian Spitfire pilots, who'broke up the attack and destroyed one of the enemy. Altogether it is estimated that over 300 German fighters were met by the Fortresses yesterday's raid. Clark Gable, now a captain in the United States Air Force, was in the Fortress which led the attack on Others are picked up along the from it.

but when we attempted to go farther our troops were met by heavy machine-gun fire at every norm coast and go acioss to the of several stations on the Kharkov-Poltava railway. Indeed the Kharkov-Orel battle zones have now so Italian mainland north of the straits into his pocket. Here another, he said Boy, its a 30-center the porter exclaimed, proudly displaying his trophy. NO SOVIHT REPRESENTATIVE Moscow radio this morning broadcast the following statement (as quoted by Reuter) The Tass News Agency denies that Stalin, or any representative ot lite Soviet Government" will participate at the forthcoming meeting between Roose extended that they virtually merge into one long offensive stretch across what was until a fortnight ago the Kursk bulge, which now no longer exists. point.

The ground over which we must next advance here is particularly defensible, as the mountains come down close to the sea and the narrow coastal strip is cut by three rivers. It seems clear that this is one of the lines which the enemy will make special efforts to hold. on the Adriatic single from Arezzo (where it leaves the main Milan-Bologna-Florencc-Rome line) via Perugia single from Civitavecchia, on the main west coast line through Orte, on the Florence-Rome line and single from Benevento. Aquila. The firbt three are electrified and the last named is steam It iS the l.ne to Benevento.

miles east-north-east of Naples, which makes Terni interesting to our bombers as it provides a means, however imperfect, of reaching the south without passing through either Rome or Naples. It may be recalled that not so long ago we bombed Aquila on that very l.ne. Pnotos show that the sorting ards at Terni were well covered with bursts. The gasworks near by weie blown up. Bombs were seen to land on an arms factory.

F.W. 190, Me. 109. and Macchi 202 fighters attempted to intercept without loss but without success The attack was pressed home ith full energy. These arc outside the flak umbrella" and therefore have suffered most from our bombing, but they travelwell dispersed and do not present easy targets.

The majority of all craft cross at night. The chief enemv reception area appears to be Palmi, ten miles north-east of Scilla, and the coast mad and railway from the straits are laden with evacuated troops and material on their way to it. Those, of course, present our Air Forces with targets which leceive constant n. SITPI.Y TRAFFIC STOPS velt and Mr Churchill. fcSritisn papers puLhhed a report that Soviet miUtaiy attaches would part in the meeting as observers Tass states that these reports are based on a The Sovet Government have received no invitalioi to this meeting.

As is clear from the character of the conference, the participation of anv representative of the Soviet Government at the meeting in Quebec was not and is not intended Gelsenkirchen, and stood throughout the s.x-hour flight to "shoot" a gunnery training film. The machine returned wth 15 flak holes Simultaneously raids were made bv Marauders (B. 26't). escorted and covered bv Spitfires, on the enemy airfield at Foix. in France, and by Typhoon bombers at Courtrai and at Merville.

Good bombing results were reported in each case. MOSQUITOES OVER THE RUHR The daylight raids followed night attacks by Mosquitoes of Bomber Command on objectives in the Ruhr and Rhineland and extensive intruder patrols by fighters in France and the Low Countries. Mines were also laid in enemy waters. From these operations one bomber is missing. During further sweeps over the Channel and Northern France yesterday afternoon one enemy fighter was destroverl.

All mir marhinpc In a statement at Allied Q. to-dav Air Vice-Marshal Sir Hu2h Pugh Llovd. chief of the North-west African Coastal Air Force, said that for three or four davs no Ax supply shipping has attempted to run to Sic.lv. Renter. tne missian punt h.

Kharkov still has an escape gap of about forty miles, but the Russian advance it unhaltcd will tap.dly diminish the gap. and a delayer-action blow from Chuguyev will, if driven home, complete Kharkov's encirclement. The Russians arc effectively s-organismg the German lines of "retreat bv thoroughly bombing the rear junctions and large marshalling centres, but a German retreat is still possible rross-country, though not without great losses of material. Besides the operations directed against Kharkov the Russians have managed to press forward a further ten miles on the Sumy front. At the Bryansk end of the battle line the Germans are toughly resisting on and near the railway, uing armoured trains with heavy guns near Karachev, but the Russian advance goes on.

TWO OTHER BATTLES Berlin announcements persist that a major battle is developing between Bryansk and Smolensk, ranking second only to the Belgorod battle. Reports from Berlin declare indeed that the Russians are throwing in greater forces than it was thought possible and that the losses (Russian naturally) are colossal. No place-names are given to aid an estimate of the progress, but the German report claims that no territorial gains can compensate for the Russian losses, which suggests that the Germans are adopting their elastic method also here and are yielding ground. The Germans to-day officially refer to the operations south of Lake Ladoga as JlTo LcniMrad tAioAi 5Jo Leningrad IT-iL- Tula 100 hi V. 1 Railways 7o Ks.rkol LORD LYELL Posthumous Victoria Cross The Kins has approved tne posthumous award of the Victoria I DAAlAGb A I BLhVN COAST RAIDERS 23 People Killed Twelve people were killed and many injured during a shaip attack by enemy raiders on a town on the South-west Coast of England after midnight on Wednesday.

Eleven more deaths were reported in a town on the South Coast Tne used more 'planes than he has done lor some months in the attacks, and bombs were dropped at several places. It was estimated that some Cross to Lieutenant (Temporary a German rad-o announcement last Captain) Lord Lyell, 5i781, Scots said that American bomber Guards, of Kirriemuir, Angus. formations which penetrated into The official announcement runs Western Germany during the morning From April 22 to April 27. 1943. Captain were dispersed by German fighters and Lord Lyell commanded his company which uroppea tneir oomos at random.

The main targets, said the announcer. As the Russian active operations hav2 now beer, extend' above Bryansk through the Kirov area the Germans are right to-day in declaring themselves engaged in heavy defensive fighting on the whole front below Smolensk to had been placed under the orders of a the third battle." announcing that the Germans here are commanded by Field forty aircraft were employed, about half of them bombers and the others fighter-j bombers. One raider was destroyed. Yesterday's German communique stated A lormal'on of heiiy Gtrman DOmbe-s last nLeflt i Jl acied t'le ar-a of ti-e njval port oE P.jTr.outh and assisted by Colonel ann, intantry General mentators say still farther to the Black' Sea and the Kuban bridgehead. General Lindema Wdhler, and Air were the town of Bonn and the area of Bochum.

Casualties and damage were caused in the old part of the city of Bonn by high-explosive and incendiary bombs on ubjects of no military importance." it bs added. Associated Press. Evidence of the levere damage at Cologne on page 8 battalion of the Grenadier Guards with great gallantry, ability, and cheerfulness He led it down a slope under heavy mortar fire to repel a German counter-attack on April 22, led it again under heavy fire through the battalion's first objective on April 23, in order to capture ar.d consoli date a high point, and held this point through a very trying period of shelling, heat, and shoriage of water. During this period, through his energy Eourr.emouth a numlwr ci h.ch-fp.os.e and tircratt returned nen-y vrcralt a-d a la-ae fly.rc-boat e-t Elicl doan ta til? coailal area occup.ed western le-r-tor? fighter sleeps over the c. bv B- panes 5Jnglr over Western Ge-many caused cn.y s.ght daxase General Korten, adding that the Russians unsuccessfully attempted a break-through with two armies.

The Germans stress this and other sectors apparently to divert attention from the Kharkov battle, which the official report disposed of to-day in a brief phrase that the great defensive battle in the Belgorod zone continues. The Times' 'Manchester Guardian' Service Only now do the German spokesmen mention Kharkov, saying that its cap-turs is the obvious goal of the Russian Belgorod offensive. Possibly these remarks are intended to prepare German minds for the impending bad news, as th evacuation of Kharkov must be accelerated without further delay if the Germans hope to save much of the great quantities of material thct GAOL FOR BOOKMAKER and cneertulnesi. he not only kept up t.ie a r- 5w. c-i KaticO Reads Airfield a toie Heights in feet MILES To Kursk flgnting spirit his company DUt also i Tfrrihlf nirl Mfm Crmiri1 managed througn radio telepnony, which, IciriDie dlltl liedn UimL he worked himself trom an exposed position, to bring most effective artillery William Thomas Jones (43)V a tire to bear on enemy tanks, venicles.

and Gloucester bookmaker, who at Stafford 00Shours on April 27. 1943. 1 Assizes yesterday was sentenced to 13 this officer's company was taking par: in months' imprisonment for conspiring to the battalion's attack on Djebel Bou Arada. steai and for receiving equipment sup-Tne company was held up in the foothill dj 'op "NEW SYSTEMATIC DISENGAGEMENT" Sertorius Roads 40 Railways To Kiev GRACIE FIELDS Broadcast To-day from Rochdale Miss Gratie Fields travelled north from London yesterday and was given a ereat receo'ion at the first of several A Surov fokitnoe Korochi Formations about one regimen: strong took part, supported by one tank forma-', tion. But the German defence, sup-1 ov neaw fire Trom an enemv Dost on the v-iu, told by Mr.

Justice Wrottesley that it was a terrible crime and a mean one." left. Tms post consisted of an 88mm gun and a heavy machine-gun separate rtitc Ralwnn WW villi) poited by the Luftwatle. intervened so I engagements the is to fulfil locally (TV ILebeetm effectivelv that the enemy was partly re-' before returnin" to London on Sundav. pulsed before reaching tne beach, and a 1 This was a concert for troops at a on the coast was gained by only western town, where she introduced her destroyed the "advance could not proceed. Jones was found guilty of conspiring Lord Lyell collected the only available i with two other men to steal clothing and and led them to attack He was a long them.

On tne judge direction he was way in advance cf the others and" lobbed found not guilty of aiding and abetting SeK.rt.theA?atnepSS Ph nther the theft oi the Soods. sergeant was killed and both the Guards It was alleged that American Red I alsl new Patr.ouc song, The Wings of Eng- Zotochev In.e was She seemed a little nervous at the -'On eastern1 coastaf reals the i but soon 7 Zenkov Wjin, men were wounded. The lance corporal got down to Bive covernz fire to Lord SwVZf5 hdvcid- -ng about an jTj. mat, 'who ward a few knometres beyond 1 -hnt th vrc -r, fir Cross clothing stolen from rest centre eauioment depots, the property of si ji Sertorius, German overseas news commentator, said last night that the situation in Sicily was now characterised a new systematic disengagement movement by the German-Italian It was out of the question to contest with the Allies the possession of those parts of the island already conquered, Sertorius added. What matters is to prevent the enemy from extending his invasion operations to objectives on the mainland.

This is the task of the Axis bridgehead in the north-eastern corner of tno island, and the extension of this position is less important than its solidity. In this context the similar events in the extreme Southern Russia front may be recalled, where the Kuban bridgehead, now held bv the German forces for more than six months, steadily gained in power of resistance the more it was narrowed down. The same ettect may now be expected from the new shortening of the Axis front which has just started in Sicily. Our disengaging movement has so -Reuter Gloucester County Council, passed into 1 tnree Jap "planes." and then stooped. the possession of Jones, who sold it at Walsall, and that he also sold 500 stolen hot-water bottles to a man named bpicer at Cheltenham.

Sorry." she explained, I should have sung Xazi but I have been singing it over there." Miss Fields i took the audience into her confidence. MAX WHO KILLED MATTEOTTI Zmiev jijkiava 9 Jones, in evidence, described transactions with men named Tom Rowe and Hicken at Walsall and Birmingham in which he shared the profit. He declared that he had no idea that any of the KArlnvka I have been singing on the radio." she Amerigo Dumini. the man who said. and I hsd to put mv siiecs on to planned the murder of the Italian read the words.

Here I have to remem-Socialist Matteotti in 1924 and who was I er them- 1 getting the old musical 1U t. t. -t. i box in "im glad to be back on captured by the British in Libya, has i my own ground," she said in a speech now been arrested in Italy, according of thanks for a presentation made by to the German radio two soldiers. Ji v.

a clothing or hot-water Dottles were stolen. Krasnotfrad-R? PrrnhmherukO 1 VI uzyum Dumini. who was sentenced to five ss rieios spent me mgnt at tne home of her friend Mrs. J. D.

O'Hanlon Lyell, who had run straight on towards the 88mm gun-pit and was working his way round to the left of it. So quickly had this officer acted that he was in among the crew with the bayonet before they had time to fire more than one sho.L He killed a number of them before being overwhelmed and killed himself. The few survivors of the gun crew then left the pit, some of them being killed while thev were retiring, and both the heavy machine-gun and 88mm. gun were silenced. The company was then able to-advance and take its oDjective.

There is no doubt that Lord LyeU's outstanding leadership, gallantry, and self-sacrifice enabled his company to carry out its task, which had an important bearing on the success of the battalion and of the brigade. Captain Lord Lyell, of Kinnordy, Kirriemuir, Angus, whose death in action was announced in May, was 29. His only child, Charles, who is four, succeeded to the title. Captain Lord Lyell. who had been in the Scots Guards Supplementary Reserve since he was up at Oxford, went to North Africa in February.

He was a friend of the late J. M. Barrie. They met often at Kirriemuir and in London, and Barrie held the young laird of Kinnordy in high regard. FLOOD CASUALTIES IN INDIA Ronda Dale Brow, Prcstbury, who is her hostess for the week.

To-day she will be given a civic reception at Rochdale her home town. and will afterwards entertain 2.000 Rochdale cotton workers at a mill canteen and broadcast in an Ens a Break for Music concert at 12 30 cm Sir Reginald Maxwell, the Home Member, said in the Indian Central "SHADOW" CABINET Exiled Spaniards' Plan Mexico Crrr, August 12. Former members of the Spanish Republican Cortes are to meet here next month to form a Spanish Government in exile, it was stated to-day. Sefior Martinez Barrios, a former President of the Cortes will preside, and Senor Juan Negrin, the last Prime Minister before the fall of the Republican Government, will be invited to attend. Reuter.

far appeared only on the two wings, while in the centre, west of Randazzo and east of Bronte, the front continues in the positions before which the enemy suffered a heavy repulse during last week-end. Yesterday the Americans here started some violent attacks again but did not achieve any gains. They are, therefore, now pressing on more strongly on the two coastal roads. On the northern coastal road the Ameri-" can left wing, which has now reached Naso. is still supported by many Allied warships from the sea.

A useless landing enterprise has also taken place, this time at Cape Orlando. years' imprisonment after the murder but was released almost immediately afterwards, had a villa at Bern a from 1932 onwards. When the British swept into the town in 1941 Dumini (says the British United Press) gave himself up to the Allies rather than return to Italy, evidently fearing that the Fascist regime might collapse and that the case against him might be reopened. Matteotti was only one of his many victims, but it was the Matteotti murder which unveiled the character of Fascism in tha eves of millions of respectable Deople. and Fascism never lived it down.

BOMB AT POLICE PATROL Twenty persons were detained by the Belfast police early yesterday efter the throwing of a bomb at a police patrol in Cyprus Street during the black-out. The bomb. which was of the home-made type, failed to explode. Police reinforcements were rushed to the district and a large number of houses were searched. Assembly yesterday that the loss of life in the Admer Nerwaxa flood Raj-putana (North-west India) was estimated at about 3,000.

The affected area covered about 150 square miles. The town of Biiainacar. which had a RAIDERS OVER EAST ANGL1A Enemy 'planes were over East Anglia early to-day. Bombs were dropped at scattered points. uopulation of 7.000.

suffered the heaviest damage..