Sherbrooke daily record, 24 septembre 1943, vendredi 24 septembre 1943

[" V â»bprbrnokp Hath} Srrorù \u2022 \u2022 \u2022 Established 1897.THE PAPER OF THE EASTERN TOWNSHIPS SHERBROOKE.QUEBEC.FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 24.1943.WEATHER Fair and cooler.CITY EDITION.BIG JUNKERS TRY TO TAKE GERMANS OFF CORSICA DS,iteAlffi!SSurS[nS Soviet Troops Threaten Report Big YugosiaY Of Hun Garrison Fails T° Engulf Nazis Along Dnieper JJSlJg jj0ar\u201c}rofl0rJs Battered Remnants of 12.000-Man Nazi Army Driven into Northeast Corner of Corsica Island by French Troops from North Africa, Supported by American Rangers\u2014Warships Maintain Tight Blockade to Cut Off Escape by Sea.By ROGER GREENE, Associated Press Staff Writer.Conquest of Corsica, stepping-stone to the French mainland, appeared imminent today as R.A.F.aircraft intercepted a German air! fleet attempting to evacuate Nazi; troops from the island and shot ; down seven transport planes.Gen.Henri Giraud\u2019s French troops from North Africa, supported by American Rangers, had driven battered remnants of the 12,000-man Nazi garrison into the Northeast corner of the island, while Allied warships maintained a tight blockade to cut off escape by sea.Napoleon\u2019s birthplace, Corsica lies 110 miles from the southern coast of France.More than 1,000 Germans had been killed by French troops and native patriots, and hundreds of others were believed to have died under heavy Allied bombings of the Nazi escape port of Bastia and in boats en route across the Ligurian Sea to Leghorn, Italy.At least 14 Nazi transport planes, including big Junkers 52\u2019s, were involved in the attempted aerial rescue, which was smashed in a series of three attacks by R.A.F.Beaufight-ers.\u201cAt other times during the day,\u201d Allied Headquarters announced, \u201cseveral score enemy transports were observed making an evacuation trip and on the sea a large number of small boats were seen by reconnaissance aircraft.\u2019\u2019 Allied Headquarters announced that Lt.Gen.Mark Clark\u2019s Anglo-American 5th Army troops, victors in the battle of Salerno, launched a full-scale offensive against German mountain defences guarding the route to Naples.The 5th Army overran the me un-tain town of Oliveto-Citra, 24 miles East of Salerno, after a 10-mile thrust from newly-captured Acerno, while British 8th Army columns striking up the heart of the Italian peninsula seized Matera in an 11-mile advance.Matera is 36 miles Northwest of Taranto on the heel of the Italian boot.From Matera, it was announced, Gen.Sir Bernard Montgomery\u2019s veterans drove North another ten miles to occupy Altamura.While Gen.Clark launched his climactic offensive against burning, dynamite-wrecked Naples, Italian refugees said residents of the once great port were .battling German troops in the streets and firing at the enemy from the -windows of their homes.TORPEDO BOATS STAB BY BRITISH SUB TO SINK TIRPÎTZ Berlin Claims British Submarine Destroyed in Audacious Norwegian Island Foray.London, Sept.24.\u2014®\u2014An au- - dacious foray by a British submar-Allied Headquarters North Africa,,^ b an at J £ to sink the German Sept.2 .\u2014l^-Two ii-ench cruisers lbattl h; Ti ; in a Norwegian \"*\"\u2022* todi,-v » d-vb\" thre, submarines helped land the \u201c«\u201c\u2018\"l Ge™*» \"\"\"» »«\u201c«¦ French forces now driving the Germans from Corsica, it was announced today.The cisclosure came as Gen.Henri Giraud, French Commander-in- French Vessels Helped To Land Men On Corsica The agency report, which was broadcast by the Berlin radio, said that a British submarine \u201cof the smallest type\u201d stole into the Nor- .wagian island area but was caught ChiefTdecfare'T on his\u201d return from | and destroyed before it could carry a two-day flying trip to Corsica out its mission that he expected all the Nazis on the island to be ousted or slain within ter.or fifteen days.(The British Admiralty made no comment on this report.) This enemy attempt which was Among the French ships partici- obviously intended to make amends pating in the invasion landing, an .for the setback which the British officia; announcement said was the Navy suffered through the daring 6.500-ton training cruiser Jeanne1 deed of Guenther Prien in Scapa d\u2019Arc, one of the naval units based j Flow, was a complete failure,\u201d D.N.at Martinique before that Carib-jg asserted bean -Island severed its ties with; (prien commanded the German U- The large destroyers Le Fantas-! boat+%hich sl,*Ped into Britain s que and Le Terrible, which have at- ^\u2018\u2019at Scapa Flow «aval base and tained speeds of 43 to 45 knots, also;\u201ca,nk i-he\t'P were used to run troops into Ajaccioi14, 1930.The Germans report-, almost under the noses of th