23 Jul 1943
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Newspaper
Gloucester Advocate
Location
Gloucester, New South Wales, Australia
Date
Jul 23, 1943
Page
1
An advertisement showcases flannel and toweling squares 46 by 29 inches with cheap wool jackets machine made in fancy stitch coupons offered, plus hand knitted bonnets and bootees to match bonnets one coupon bootees one coupon small girls flannel coats half lined in pink and sky only coupons seven
War brief reports the Axis hold on Sicily fragile with Catania still in enemy hands while Enna falls and evacuation grows. Over 40,000 prisoners taken as German retreat accelerates. Red Army drives into the Orel salient and eyes Donets basin offensives. Rome escapes major damage from Monday air raid according to several sources.
Public notice from J W Hughes Deputy Commissioner of Taxation Sydney outlines filing deadlines for income tax returns for the year ended 30 June 1943. July 31 targets individuals with certain salary rent or interest income, August 31 targets companies trusts and businesses. Forms and collection points listed with penalties for noncompliance.
Hitler and Mussolini met in a northern Italian town on Monday to discuss the military situation. An American correspondent in Switzerland reports the main topic as the feasibility of cutting Axis losses in Sicily to enable a more easily conducted defense on the Italian mainland south of Naples. Axis losses in Africa total about 975,000 men and 1,856 aircraft, per an Evening Standard estimate from official sources.
American aircraft attacked a Japanese convoy in the Solomon Islands area destroying a light cruiser and three destroyers and damaging other vessels. A U S Navy official said the United States must build a Pacific fleet twice as large as Japan’s to gain parity, noting the American Pacific fleet is now larger.
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