18/8/1943 2pm. (dutch time)
It has been formally announced in today's
communique from North Africa that all
resistance in Sicily has ceased.
The Germans left a lot of material
behind.
Nearly every building in Messina as
our correspondents report bears scores
of our air attacks.
6000 people in Messina have lived for over
a month in an air raid shelter.
German batteries have shelled Messina
from the mainland and ours have replied.
Not one Middle East aircraft is
missing from all the operations carried
out.
Swiss correspondents report great disorganization
at Milan, Turin and so on.
Thousands of people have fled from Milan
to the border mostly without any papers.
An Italian diplomatic mission has
arrived at Lisbon. In Russia fighting is
heaviest round Kharkiv. West of the city the
Germans in their counterattack threw in
100 heavy tanks with strong support of the
air force. Railway station 100 miles South
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