Daily Post - 10.07.1943, Blaðsíða 4

LíAlJLY FOST
Twins On The Beach
Here’s a beach photo of Marian and Virginia Hopkins, twin sisters
who call California their home. The girls have appeared in the
movies and currently are doing a stage tour. They’re singers.
Faroese Ship Sunk
Off íceland
United States army headquarters in Iceland announced Fri-
day night that a Faroese fishing vessel had heen attacked and sunk
hy a German plane Thursday morning off the southéast coast of
lceland. It was the second Faroese vessel to have heen attacked
in Icelandic waters within the past week.
Allied Bombers
Attack Airfields .
Id Sisily
London. — In the Mediter-
ranean, the full weight of the
Allied air offensive is still be-
ing turned against Sicilian air-
fields. Altogether 21 Axis air-
craft were shot down during
the day for the loss of 11 Al-
lied.
Friday’s communique from
Allied H.Q., Horth Africa, re-
ports day and night attacks by
Allied aircraft from North Af-
rica, the Middle East and from
Malta on Sicilian airfields ‘and
other targets. The Gerbini net-
work again suffered heavily,
being the target for daylight
raids on Wednesday, followed
by night attacks and two ser-
ies of daylight raids yesterday.
Catania, also, has had par-
ticularly heavy attacks. R.A.F.
heavy bombers flew over on
Wednesday night, starting fires
near barrack buildings. Then in
daylight yesterday, Liberators
flew over in two waves, the
first concentrating the whole
weight of their attack on tele-
phone and telegraph buildings
and the railway marshalling
yards.
The second wave went for
the railway station and oil
storage depots, locomotive re-
pair sheds and depots and the
industrial area. They shot down
8 Axis fighters, which attempt-
ed interception. Two Allied
planes are missing from these
attacks.
Olrand Sajrs France WUl
Fifiht Japs
Washington. — General Gi-
raud told reporters here that
France will assist the Allies in
liberting the Far East from
Japanese domination after
France is freed from Axis con-
trol.
The Fighting French general
stated that he had asked for
equipment and supplies for
300,000 French soldiers who
would assist in the invasion of
Europe.
íjí ❖
Algiers. — The French Na-
tional Committee fqr Libera-
tion met here Friday. It was
announced that the problems
cf the French West Indies were
discussed.
The Army communique
stated: “The Faroese fishing
vessel “Mistletoe” was attack-
ed and sunk by a German plane
on the morning of the 8th of
July southeast of Iceland. The
vessel was attacked intermit-
tently over a period of one and
one-half hours. Two bombs
were dropped and two memb-
ers of the crew were killed by
machine gun fire. The men
who were killed were Martin
Thodor Joenson and Hilrhar
Magnus Egholm. Five surviv-
ing crew members, one pas-
senger and the bodies of the
two dead men were landed at
an East Coast port on the after-
noon of the 9th of July.”
The army announced on
Thursday that the “William
Martin”, also a Faroese fishing
vessel, had been attacked by a
German plane on July, 7. The
attack occured northeast of Ice-
land when a German two-mot-
ored bomber flew over the ship
at an altitude of 200 feet and
machine gunned it. It then re-
turned and machine gunned
and used its cannon again. One
shot penetrated the cabin and
struck Joen Peterson, a crew
member, in the back. Peterson
was removed from the ship and
rushed ashore for medical treat-.
ment. The ship put in at an
East Coast port for repairs.
SILENCE IS GOLDEN
BEA HOARDER
D.S. Snbs Siok More
Jap Ships
Washington. — The navy
announced today that US sub-
marines in the Pacific have
sent an additional ten Jap
ships to the bottom and have
damaged four.
The total brings to 200 the
number of enemy vessels sunk
by United States Submarine
action in the Pacific and Far
East, while another 29 ships
have probably been sunk and
64 have been damaged. The
grand total since Pearl Harbor
is 284 Jap vessels sunk or dam-
aged.
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R.A.F. Dive Botnbers
In Borma.
In Burma, R.A.F. Vengeance
dive bombers, mentioned for
the first time only a few days
ago as being in action here,
have attacked Jpanese build-
ings in the Buthidaung area
and elsewhere.
Blenheims bombe'd targets in
the Akyab area, and fighters
have sunk or damaged thirty
river craft. Railway objectives
at Magwe and supply dumps
and buildings at Kalewa were
among other targets success-
fully attacked.
Flyino Trapeze War
Worker
A girl trapeze artist is now
flying through the air with
the greatest of ease in an Aus-
tralian munitions factory. She
drives an overhead crane, and
is so sure-footed among mach-
inery in the heights that it gi-
ves' other girls confidence to
follow her. She has already
trained a dozen girls, none of
whom had ever before seen an
overhead crane controlled by
electric power.
This pre-war trapeze artist
is one of the many Australian
girls who are taking men’s
places in armaments factories.
But women who an work “in
the heights” are few. Another
cranedriver is a girl from
Wangaretta who had been
climbing windmills all her life;
and a third is a motor-cycle
salesgirl who has travelled all
round Australia.