Daily Post - 23.05.1943, Blaðsíða 4

SUNDAY POST
The Exercise Before The Push?
Troops stationed in Britain have carried. out their largest
yet offensive exercise over the English countryside. Two
armies, “Southland”, (comprising large forces of Canadian
and British troops), and “Eastland” (representing the Ger-
mans) fought with a resolution which bodes ill for the Axis
in the future. Civilians were questioned, their identity
cards checked, and all the background security measures
brought into operation. The exercise represented a full-
scale battle, complete with field newspapers produced on
the spot. Picture shows: “Eastland” tank and gun passing
through the village of Whittlebury, Northants.
Baseball Scores
BASEBAL SCORES
AMERICAN
Tigers 2 Red Sox 1
White Sox 1 Senators 0
Browns 9 A’s 2
INTERNATIONAL
Buffalo 4 Montreal 3
AMFRICAN ASSOCIATION
Mineapolis 2 Toledo 0
St. Paul 1 Columbus 0.
She Wants Her Dollars
Back
New York. Mrs. Francis
Crown, Brooklyn houswife
did not have beginner’s luck
when she made her first race !
horse bet at Belmont Park.
Wagering in the daily doub-
le, she lost 18 dollars. She has
filed a suit against the park
management contending that
the daily double is both illegal
and unconstitutional. She
wants her 13 dollars returned.
Icelanfl’s Football Season
Starts Today
Reykjavík’s football season
starts today. A large crowd is
expected at the Stadium at 5
o’clock. The four leading te-
ams in the country will take
part.
In the first match Valur will
meet K. R. and in the second
Fram opposes Víkingur. Each
match will be 20 minutes each
way.
The winners will meet later,
this series being a knock out
tourney. Others will follow, —
when matches will be of 45
minutes duration and teams
from bther parts of the coun-
try jncluding Akureyrj and the
Vestmannaevjar. .
SILENCE IS GOLDEN
BE A I-IOARDER
N-African Air Forces Claim 96 IVfore
Axis Planes
London, May 22 nd.
Allied bombers have struck more blows at Italian bases,
smashing 96 Axis aircraft on the ground and in the air.
Yesterday’s heaviest blows
were struck at Sicilian bases,
including the Messina ferry
terminus and on the Villacidro
airfield in Sardinia.
Out of yesterday’s score
of 96 enemy planes, 86
were destroyed by North
African based aircraft,
bringing their total bag for
the last three days to 272
Axis planes destroyed aga-
inst 12 Allied aircraft.
Flying Fortresses’ tarrgets
were Castelvetrano and Sci-
acca in Sicily. During the raid
on Castelvetrano they shot
down seven enemy fighters, —
and three of the gigantic Mes-
serschmitts 323 troop transport
planes were seen to bust into
flames. The Fortresses laid
their sticks of bombs right a-
cross the dispersal area, han-
gars and buildings. The at-
tack on Sciacca evidently took
the enemy completely by sur-
prise, for the Fortresses met
very little anti aircraft fire, —
and encountered no enemy
fighters whatever.
FIRST EFFORT
on the form of bombing known
á's “precision” bombing. This,
he says, the Strategical Air
Force has developed to a very
high level of perfection. Air
photographs show picked areas
completely covered with bom
bursts. Using fragmentation
bombs, a forrnation of Flyin^
Fortresses can drop scores
them on a small selected area
from a height of 20,000 feet-
Air Grash Holds DP
Newmarket Races
Newmarket Races on
and Tuesday were cance e^
as a result of damage caUS ^
when an unidentified aircf
crashed on the track a
ago. Occupants of the Pa
were killed.
The 2000
takeS
Guineas
rTti-CS
place at Newmarket on
day and the 1000 GuineaS
Wednesday.
American Broadcast*
They obtained excellent
results, ' as reconnaisance
photographs showed 41 Ax-
is aircraft smashed on the
ground. This is the first
time this target has been
bombed.
LIGHTNINGS BUSY
The heavy pressure against
Sardinian targets was main-
tained yesterday with Mit-
chells and Marauders with
Lightning escort pressing home
the attack. The marauders
dropped their bombs right a-
mong some 30-odd grounded
aircraft. A number of enemy
fighters tried interception, —
with the result that 13 of them 1
were sent crashing. V/arhawks
and Lightnings again flew to i
Pantellaria, where they again ,
ccncentrated on the harbour |
and the airfield. (
PRECISION BOMBING
Robert Dunnett, BBC corre-
spondent, in a radio dispatch
to-day comments particularly
MONDAY, MAY 24 s,
1300—1335: News
Fred Waring. Nelson
Songs.
1600—1713: National
phony, Hans Kindler-
delphia Orchestra
ski. Yank Swing
gtoWi
SesS
;i oP*
Arts in America.
■RoUn^u^
2200—2315: News 1:10 leut.
IBC Parade, Army 1 ^
Telephone Hour ^^gjjor®^
rence Tibbett. Dinab
Program.
Jap Barggs Snnk Ofí ^
Guinea CoaS*
, froP1
To-day’s communi9u
Gen. MacArthur’s Rabanl-
heavy Allied raids °u ^
and. on'Gasmata in y 2>eí
tain, where three eUeJied
os were destroyed- ^ eoeií'-,
bers caught a ^leet ^uijte3 c°^
barges off the NeW ar
coast, loaded with $
supplies, and repoi1
cessful attack.