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The first of these excerpts is continued from yesterday.

Winston S. Churchill, Closing the Ring

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7th Army Strikes (Middleton) – 2-3
Cardinal in Sicily Extends Cooperation of the Catholic Church to General Patton – 3
Reich Tie Must End – 3-4
Gen. Eisenhower’s Appeal – 4
Badoglio Showdown Near on Breaking with Germans (Brigham) – 5
Hull Hopes Italy Will Heed Offer (Callender) – 5-6
Italian Gatherings Demand Peace Now – 6
Wild Rejoicing in Rome’s Streets Hailed End of Mussolini Regime (Axelsson) – 7
Italy Near Peace, Nazi Officers Say – 7-8
Ex-Duce Reported in Jail Near Rome – 8
Sforza For Urging Italy to Join Us – 8-9
Russians Press On – 9
War News Summarized – 9
‘Iron Crab’ Introduced by Nazis as Two-Man Underground Fort (Werth) – 10
Fortresses Batter Kiel Again; Sear Air Plant at Warnemuende – 11
10 More Enemy Ships Sunk in Pacific by U.S. Submarines – 12
Pincers Squeezing Slowly on Munda – 12-13
Stronger Defense Now Guards Wake (by Robert Trumbull – 13
The Commander Arrives to Direct (photo) – 13
Shuttle Bombers Wear Down Kiska (by Foster Hailey) – 14
U.S. Airmen Wrest Mastery in China – 14
The Texts of the Day’s Communiques on the Fighting in Various War Zones – 16-18
The General Decorates the Generalissimo (photo) – 18