Daily Post - 01.10.1943, Síða 1

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Rapid Gast Coast Advance Frontal Attack On Kiev
Nazis Evacuate Naples?
On the South Front the Fifth Army is now only a few miles
írom Naples,—which unconfirmed neutral messages report eva-
cuated—and the Eighth Army this morning was already over
twenty miles beyond Foggia.
A dispatch from John Daly
<of the Columbia Broadcasting
this afternoon confirms the oc-
'Cupation by Allied troops of
the historic ruin-city of Pom-
pei, and states that Mt. Vesu-
vius is now the only height in
the Naples area south of the
city left in German hands. He
■says that the left flank of the
Fifth Army yesterday advanc-
ed five miles, while the Ame-
rican forces on the right flank
to the east advanced one and a
half mile against very heavy
opposition.
Daly reports further that
yesterday’s most notable gain
was in the eastern sector of the
front, where the Eighth Army
advanced 15 miles to capture
Manfredonia up the coast from
Foggia.
The Germans are making an
orderly withdrawal, and mak-
ing every use of mining and de-
molition. There are no signs of
panic or disorder in the ene-
my’s ranks, and the Nazis are
making an extensive use of mo-
bile artillery to gain time for
disengaging their forces.
Allied correspondents report
•that the six day battle in the
Salerno hills was very bitter,
.and the fiercest of all was that
for the pass which opened up
the plain of Naples. Correspon-
dents agree that they had nev-
er seen prisoners as broken in
spirit and morale as the
hardy veterans of the Hermann
Goering and the 15th Panzers
taken in this sector. Defeat was
evident in every feature.
A dispatch tonight gives de-
tails of Allied casualties sus-
tained during the critical battle
which won the Salerno bridge-
head. British casualties, killed,
wounded and missing, totalled
5,211 during the period from
September 8th to September
20th. United States casualties
as given by Mr. Stimson, U.S.
Secretary of War, totalled 3,500
killed, wounded and missing,
during a four day period when
the battle was at its height. Al-
though heavy, they were less
than at first feared.
The weather has improved,
and Allied aircraft are again
operating in strength. The sky
is completely empty of German
aircraft, not a single enemy
plane being encountered in thé
Allied sweeps over and behind
the battle area.
STOP THAT SABOTEUR
About seventy-five or
eighty years ago angry
French workmen threw their
wooden shoes or “sabots”
into their machinery and a
; new instrument of warfare
i was born. The malicious de-
struction of vital materials
and installations has been
honored with the name of
‘sabotage”. Modern Ger-
many has adopted this new
technique and perfected it to
i the point of almost an exact
1 science. The German govern-
1 ment operates scientific lab-
, oratories, where master sa-
i boteurs train hundreds of
1 willing pupils to defeat the
enemy from within. The fall
of France, Holland, Belgium
and Norway was a tribute to
the success of Nazi saboteurs.
Don’t believe that it can’t
happen here! It will happen
here, if you relax your vigil-
ance for even one moment.
REMEMBER! A saboteur is
like a bee. He will strike only
once, but when he does he
will hit hard. Be ready and
i swat him before he stings
you.
Nazis Fear Crimea Trap
Late last night two Orders of the Day by Marshal Stalin
announced the capture of Kremenchug, midway hetween Dnie-
propetrovsk and Kiev, and of Rudnya, a junction hetween Smo-
lensk and Vitebsk, and today the communique from Moscow an-
nounces a major Soviet attempt to establish a bridgehead at the
Ukrainian capital, Kiev.
Up on the Central Front, Red
Army troops and guns are pour-
ing into White Russia, and in-
creasing their threat to the
vital Vitebsk-Orsha-Mohilev
line, which is being stubbornly
fought for by the Germans to
prevent the Nazi forces from
being thrown into the Pripet
marshes.
Following the 10 mile ad-
vance during the last twenty-
four hours, Soviet troops are
now 29 miles from Orsha, and
have reached a point 25 miles
from Mohilev. North of Gomel,
the Russians have crossed the
Sosh river—a great tributary of
the Dniepr—and threaten to
outflank the town.
At Kiev, Russian forces are
massing their átrength, and
have cleared a way for a front-
al assault across the Dniepr by
occupying a big island in the
Dniepr opposite Kiev, only 100
yards from the city.
Moscow messages report
that Soviet forces are now
firmly establisehd on the east
bank of Dniepr for a distance
of 100 miles north of Kiev,
while to the south of the city
their hold on the east bank ex-
tends the whole 300 miles to
Zaporoshe.
In the southernmost sector,
along the Sea of Azov, a major
battle is now raging for Melitu-
pol, the great junction on the
Sevastopol-Zaporoshe railway,
where the Germans are fight-
ing desperately to prevent the
closing of the railway escape
from the Crimea.

A General Grant tank, formerly known as M-3, gets under way
with an all-female crew.