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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, TUESDAY, MARCH 2, 1948.

HE COMMANDED

THE

ee A

eastern

OPERATION

THE CONQUEST

OF SICILY

very different terrain and style of night. The stubbornness of the Gerinan defence was more thuo equalled by their clubbornness, and their skill and endurance beaught them the success they thoroughly deserved."

Nowhere was the fighting more bitter than at Centuripe, hill ey u isolated plonocle of rock, which was defended by crack Welirmacht units with fatical vigour.

SODIL to Anchor -

humble came to over 4,000, divided into 110 surrender in the quiet expanse of British and 132 U.S. squadrons..

Field' Mara Beirocco, from which,

Our strategic plan was altered Marshal Alexander höd watched his twice, the second time owing to airborne troops two months earlier, differences of opinion between the At this distance in time, nud com- three Services. Simultaneous 05- "The storming of Centuripe was a pared with the Normandy landings saulis in the west and southeast, to particularly the real, and its rifeels of the subsequent year, the Sicilina converge eventually on Messina, hnd were widespread, for from that time operation, viewed from the brander been proposed, int it a conference the front once mare became fluid. canvas of World War II, might seem at the end of April, the 8th Army of strictly limited seope, of com- argued that the Army was being paratively little difficuity.

divided into two halven which were

LTHOUGH airborne attacks This new dispatch, however, sets too widely separated to be able to

pre support each other, and possibly too proved extremely costly, Viscount out many tricky problem it

and wisk for either to be able to achieve. Alexander considers that they proved sented, very real difliculties

They urged instead of the utmost value. This in what he operational risks that surrounded its their objects.

to say of the first operation: mounting, and the skill and courage that both the British and US forces has

wind was still blowing at which were Erlumphantly employed should assault the east coast, which "The

would give a firm base for the some 40 miles por hour

which in overcoming them.

operation,

Airborne Attacks

parachutials were dropped and But Admiral Cunningham congi- gliders slipped, and many of the dered it essential to capture the pilots of transport and tow aircraft. southeast airfields as quickly as who had had no previous experience possible in order to give protection in netuni operations, ran into to the ships lying off the benches, fienities with their navigation. WI and Ale Chief Marshol Tedder also were disconcerted by enemy unti- enteral strong objections, stating aircraft fire. The result was that

POCKET CARTOON

by OSBERT LANCASTER

**If we accept this scheme, Omplum, we dukes must firmly oppose any suggestion of a flat rate regardless, of rank,"

BY THE

WAY

by Beachcomber

THE man who dived from a height of 90ft, into a heap that unless the capture of those sir U.S. airborne troops were scattered of Mand was unwell. The Aelds could be guaranteed he would in small parties over on aren of

Came

be opposed to the whole operation, some 50 miles, in the 8th Army's manager of the circus

In the face of these irreconcilable area nearly 50 of 131 gliders came forward to apologise, when, to

The Flek! opinion, "I decided." says the

about 73 come his surprise and · delight, Marshad, to recast the whole pian,

down in the

down to Cape Deli-bious operation In this war against assault in the west and transfer the Sustain steny, and only 12 landgaunt fellow stepped up

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BEING THE OFFICIAL DES- PATCH BY FIELD MARSHAL VISCOUNT ALEXANDER ON A MEMORABLE OPERATION

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ne volunteered to deputise, 11 was the first large-sente amphi- i decided to cancel the safely to and somewhere in south- The dropping zone. actually reached the 111s self-assurance led the mana- the south-stefended coastline and opponents whole weight of the 7th Army to foren which

equipped with modern weapons, the southeast of the Island,

on the bridge south of Syrneuse, the bri-ger to believe that he point Malta. to Launched within two months of the immediate

Rih Army, gade's ne objective, only numbered perlenced performer. The gaunt fel- a risk on the watch the gliders By past. mal of the African campaign, it was takut a

risk hed the bridge unui 1530 hours on

tive.

Then he crawled out know until

of the As tandemwise pairs of impossible

of a a dispersion of

vffort, This was DDD-Day, when 19 survivors were

were sand and stood rigid. The applause two and glider came flying operations had been concluded what

regarded relieved at the last lite by

WIN 515

terride. contrary to what had been regarded

bow." "Take your Pourers were available. in twos and three,

ak re of the fundamental low, now

manager. "Bow, mali, Division troops. However, In spite shouted the now in hurger groups, with the mountainots, with many peaks over

ripleg

of the operation: that we of this miscarringe, the effect on the bow!" " can't," muttered the volun- must capture Palermo at the earliest muscari

Herves

Italian teer. "I've never done this before, rour of engines partly earried 3,000 feri-n very different type of possible opportunity if we were lo 3 of none too steziy

-neck's broken." away by a gale aml their veiled terrain to that to which our Desert have hope of maintaining sufficient was of the utmost value and my

the assault.

isolated Smudl navigation lights showing fit- forces had been accustomed. July forces for the reduction of the -

Hotels The Siamese puzzle of parachutists seized vital fully in half light of moon. sees sweltering damp heat, far mure art

attacked roads and created wide first thing to remember trying than anything; experienced in took note that the first in Libya of Tunisia, and there is much

spread panie which andoubteilly that when Chombongso ousted nisanganised all plans for defence." Pibwob Jak from power, he had sion of European soil was under malaria.

"The second operation-the ep-belitud him not only the Shuguise why."

A new style of fighting was re- THIS menat, in fact, that the whoir - quired, but training was seriously of the US, forces would have to fure of the Primosole bridge-was Wangists, but elements of the Jobol successful, though only half party, led by Noshikwok, the Mayor nlled by pressing considerations of depend on beach maintenance except mor

of Kokoangula, himself The reached the right urea. Many for the stall potf of Lleats, time and shortore of craft.

WHS grave,

Shabajabist. But Blodpoang, air force units required rest and risk

Pishfagatse lender, hero of the Phra realling. and m extensive pro- patch " there were two factors

Hari- airfield construction 111 which brightened

tise prospecta IN giving due credit to the men rising, unable to work with ramme of airt

bunchai, joined forces with Kam northern Tunisia had to be

of suitable put in reasonable possibility

who made the Sicillata Success and as weather, mnd.

of the the coming Then the problem

Viscount Peg Pet. And that is why, today. possible, Fieki Marshal It is not the much

Alexander, who himself was soon to Krat Subong is a Pechaburist reac- rembling: troops for the simultaneous DUKW.

tionary assault was perhaps the most com- that the DURW revolutionised the command the most polyglot forces plicated that ever faced a planning problem of beach maintrance."

one Behind my hat $11 warfare, singles This risk wa

was unevenly divider,

When a Siamese called Projimo- As the 18th Army Group stair, for they were mounted from

gift of managing a

kukse changes his name to Jinja Commander watched the 1st all over the southern and casten and almost the whole fell on the aspect in which General Eisenhower

part from the United Kingdom and been given tougher and less specta coalition of diferent allies in arms. Pop it is time to call a halt to Wes- Airborne Division speeding to shores of the Mediterranean and in 7th Army, which appeared to bave excelled;

He says: "In almost all warsternisation. rutlar tasks: their beaches would be which Great Britain has been in- their fate south of Syracuse, his The US.A.

more exposed than the 8th Army's volved, we have fought as member glance also took in the choppy

on some there were awkward sand sex, with that typical short.

of a coalition, and the British com-ls this YOUR experience? bars, and Monty's men would have

EAR Sir. of the steep swell of the Central Medi-

the glory of capturing more obvious ander has, therefore, what I may

Something in wrong some- An exceptionally I

ly attractive objectives. terranean.

asose the likely seale of enemy

of combining the efforts "Roth anet

where. My stir collar is made high wind had risen that after detener. In

of an allied force; he can remem beetroot, as I have discovered by between the straits

Field Marsim Alexander, "felt that, ber the Tunisia and Sicily lies the island of this division of tasks might possibiyi borough with Dutch Beld deputies four ounces of beetroot I bought h

the controversies of for bad omen

And am wearing the enting it. the Italians assault at the coming dawn- Pantellerin, which

some feeling of resentiment and Wellington going dow

down on his but it had been too dangerous claimed to have transformed into a

fortress of strength to rival Malta.in

of Spanish to attempt a postponement of Sicily had some 30 nithells, most of paign, General Pattna's punctilious knees to humour the fractiousness place of a collar. It was stift and The operation at that inte star. which were situated within 15 miles that there was no possibility of his out all the operations which I com-7 the new material used for

Thus, with characteristic re traint, writes Field Marshal Vis count Alexander of Tunis of the night of the ninth. July, 1943, in his dispatch on the conqueat of Sicily, which is published as a supplement to the London Gazette.

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He held no illusions

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Yours truly,

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of

of

I knew, fron the Tunisian cam-

uneatable, and, evidently made and

general. Through

collars. and scrupulous sense of duty,

that the of the

the roast.

questioning!

might manded in the. Mediterranean. Br-If only my trousers were made of any orders he

American forces

fought bacon, I could eat them too, and I task would be easy, but he felt of establishing an enemy order of gues

receive from me, but in case of so fish and that everything had been done battle were not available,

same general objective and and since it might appear that the

homo- to ensure that our first, landing were not in contact with the enemy. difficult and important an operation hot merely as two armiles with the could have eggs and bacon, if I had

Police and counter-espionages and sine

eine war aims, but as

as a single was being we Americas commander should be successful beyond system in Sicily was so good that we Ame

required.

ariny and, without for to scrap the resulta of Reneous any informa- The best that Britain were unable to obtain doubt.

heavier burden than of loyal co-operation

There are only two ways of get- and the United States could tioh direct from the island, while it dificult and tedious planning and moment derogating from the spirit provide werd being hurled at was an easy ask to reinforce the undertake

garrison from Italian-mainland. In he had expected at the order of a Bri- manders and men, there is no doubt

and vigour to that co-operation industry, ur by the limbécility" of the Soft underbelly of the Axis, spite of there diflculties, one eap- tish superior, I felt a natural anxiety that the inspiration which gave life ring on in the world: by your own

General others. fured Italian general consistered our about American reactions."

originally from order of battle lo be superior to the

(La Bruyere). Eisenhower." itrountless. " wish to place on oficial document in his possession. rerord here that General Patton at

False Security

Germans

the 8th

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However, t hig concern was derived

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Wonder Drug Warning: Why It Weakens

BY CHAPMAN pincher

HORTLY after midnight, the

In was anticipated that the In- once fell in with my new plan, the wind began to fall off and the Bans would have six mobile divi- millaty advantages of which were swell to subside. The sudden sions in addition to five "coastal die as clear to him as to me, and neither in the 7th Army sterni, which had caused go visions, and it was natural to expret he nor anyone much concern, in fact favoured that they would show some reason raised any form of objection." able spirit in defence of their soil, Hard-Hitting Force the Allies, for at many places especially as they had offered sinb along the Sicilian coast hostile born resistance la

There were already cunt Alexander pays to the fa

Any puis is not the only tribute Vis- Karrisons were lulled into a false at Eandaville.

with establishments.

detachments manus "Blood and Guts" general and sense of security and relaxed in Sicily extensive German air fores

WARNINGS that the Eurative resistant strain might improve their vigil ander the impression for ground defence as well as ack his Army, "I had complete confidence

he writes. "In Tunisia, WAR

power of penicillin is on the dramatically as streptomycin killed an off the main mass of the germs and that no one would attempt a ack gunners-the defence round then him."

pr authoritative statement that the then relapse as the resistant strains landling under such conditions. Messina area was described by our he had taken command of a body that the which had been prevented hitherto it was calculated

would So they offered only slight rests pilots as stronger than over the Ruhr of troops, the excellent material of we have been followed by

of no Streptomycin

bo be less effective. tance on the beaches.

would add

well- from showing its full capabilities De Wer drug streptomycin, may suon took over..

certain lack of experience und The Lancet stresses these further use to this patient. equipped divisions to the garrison. by a

And it would be useless from the drugs start to anyone who contracted the But this time there was in Before the island was given up, the by difficulties of terrain and climate, warnings once again.

Why are these "miracle be no annihilation in the Cape number of Wehrmacht divisions new and had transformed it by his in-

into a fast-moving

perms from him. The original spiration

and fading so quickly? crowned with Consider a typical case-the action Bon manner. When, just before tually rose to four,

"We are hard-hitting force planners even stated:

victory."

of streptomycin on the germs causing dawn on August 17. the Ger- doubtful of the chances of success man Commander sailed from against the garrison, which includes

Though, as it turned out, Ameri- meningitis,

When streptomycin is added to a cans were involved in little serious

culture of meningitis the beach north of Messina in German formations."

fighting until they came up against fest-tuba

BUT, REMEMBER--- the last enemy bout to leave

desperate resistance by the 16th germs usually all the germa are put

This does not mean that the the island, he had been able to

Panzer Division at Troina, their out of action. But sometimes a few

useless drugs are

now. Resistant remain unharmed. widesweeping manger- extricate a high proportion of

THE total enemy forces eventually rapid and

There are several different breeds strains are still fairly rare and most "the whole which mopped up

cases of the diseases for which the

ure caused are useful

by 90,000 Germans, 800 Luftwaffe and western part of the island, and or strains of meningitis germs and a

they few happen to be immune to the drugs 700 Regla Aeronautica combat air- their dash to Messina, which

susceptible germs. Sicily, that 10,00quare-mile

battle Reet were first to reach, involved not drug. craft, md the Italian

These resistant strains are normal-

There is also a good chance that Ingged arrowhead will a boketi included six battleships ant two only considerable feats of enduranc

become ly rare because the other breeds before the resistant germa but the greatest drive and energy. point to west, had fallen in 38 days, elght-inch cruiss/sted

swamp them. But by stiffing their widespread, ways of stengthening swa In the end, the 8th Army had and three weeks later, men from the Our forces

the action of the drugs against them will have been discovered. Desert and North Africa were cross- British Infantry divisions, one infan- face the heaviest opposition from competitors, streptomycfr. gives the

have found Ing the Straits

Already, scientists of Messina hto try brigade and one airborne dvi the Germans and some of the hardest resiklant kerms & clear fled in which

in their in thrive and multiply. Calabria and were landing on the sion of the 8th Army, and five tighting of the campaign

HUMANS, TOO

that by combining the action of brach defended

with Test-tulie another drug of fantry divisions, one armoured and struggle for the plain of Catani.

streptomycin desperately

What happens in the Salerno, Mussolini's regime had al- one airborne, of the American 7th But, says the Field Marshal, "they ready rumbled, Badoglio was suing Army. The total aircraft, including showed that they could apply the seems to happen in the human body some resistant strains seem for terms, and the Italian Flett was transports but excluding gliders, lessons leamt in the Desert

so, a meningitis patient harbouring checket.

Plan Altered

his troops, though not his heavy T amounted to 350,000 Talians and vres,

equipment.

of

Devel

to

"

all Scientists fear that in time

10 the susceptible the germa streptomycin type of drugs may be replaced by resistant strains.

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