Salt Lake Telegram | 1943-09-28 | Page 2 | Nazis Hit Balkans to Offset Loss of Foggia

s' s R. R r Sto Foggia Tiry ria ALBANIA ALBANIA g r x balona Jr v V w f w ITALY GREECE f Sea Calabria SICILY o a 10 IS Associated Press reu Mop Map Balkan Theater Following Following Follow Follow- ing British capture of stra stra- strategic strategic Foggia in Italy the they had landed forces on the island of Corfu off the west coast of Greece and seized Yugoslav Yugoslav Yu Yu- harbor of Split from guerillas Nazis Hit Balkans Ballans To Offset Loss oss of Foggia I By U William Smith White LO LONDON DON Sept 28 UP With UP With Foggia's elaborate string of airfields air airfields airfields air air- fields in allied hands the Germans struck at once Tuesday in an effort effort effort ef ef- ef- ef fort to shield themselves from the grave strategic consequences of the loss of ot that vital base Almost at the moment that General General General Gen Gen- eral Dwight D. D Eisenhower's com com- disclosed that General Sir Bernard L. L Montgomery's I forces had overrun Foggia the Germans announced d two quick quicksteps quicksteps quicksteps steps of ot their own One They One They threw landing forces at the island of Corfu off the west coast of Greece Two Two They They attacked and claimed to o have regained the Yugoslav harbor harbor harbor har har- bor city of Split previously stormed and seized by Yugoslav guerillas In these operations Hitler was moving with all urgency against a menace suddenly and vastly in increased increased increased in- in creased against his Balkan front for or the capture of ot Foggia by the British meant that the whole of ot northern Italy the Danube valley and southern Germany itself now have lave been brought more adequately adequate- adequate ly y under the shadow of the allied air arm It meant also that scale grand-scale facilities for allied air action against the Balkans now had been obtained in an area only miles mUes across the Adriatic sea The Berlin announcement of the occupation of Corfu directly across the Ionian sea from the heel icel of ot the Italian boot said the Germans took over the entire island after a short fight with Italian troops who turned down downan an ultimatum to surrender German air attacks across the Aegean from Greece were disclosed by an allied from the middle east which said heavy enemy enemy enemy en en- emy bombers escorted by fighters raided the Islands of Coo and Lero Monday Spitfires shot down one enemy bomber and anda a a. fighter Allied airmen also were active In n the Aegean area the past two nights the Cairo announced an an- pounced