World News Today

World News Today brought to you by Continental Radio and Television Corporation, makers of Admiral Radio America's Smart Set. By shortwave broadcast, direct from important overseas stations, as well as the leading news centers of our own country, CBS Correspondents are waiting to bring you a complete report from the world's political and battlefronts.

But first, here's Doug Edwards. The top news today, Allied Air Action. British and American planes have showered tons of bombs on enemy targets in Western Europe, in the Mediterranean, in the South Pacific, and in China.

The RAF put on the biggest show with a record attack on Hamburg. Other Allied bombers flying the shuttle route from Britain to Africa blasted Italy's northwest coastal port of Leggen. On land, the Sicilian campaign has reached its final stages with a capture of Chopiné by the American 7th Army, and in Russia the Soviet tide rose on tort Orel.

Now, Admiral Radio takes you direct to Algiers. John Daly reporting. Tonight, and it's already nighttime in the start of the world, the only city of United Nations and necking for the final battle of Sicily.

The Axis is holding a line from 70 miles long, running from below Katanya on Sicily's lead coast, inland for about 15 miles, and then arcing a hand-masked echner to the north west from Regal Bhutto.

From there it turns north to end of the Titanium Sea on Sicily's north coast. The Germans hold more than 30 miles in Kefarnia to Rega Dukas. The Italians hold the rep, the 30 mile stretch northward to the FH in C.

In western Sicily, the American Sevens Army has occupied Sapanese, the last port at any consequence on the west coast, and has captured an additional 10,000 prisoners and a huge amount of boogie, including 200 guns.