ADVANCE IN ITALY
Troops Fighting In Most Difficult Country LONDON, September 23. An Allied communique today reports that the Fifth and Eighth Armies have continued to advance. The enemy has clung hard to his positions in the area nearest to the western coast, while attempting to withdraw his other flank. Three towns —respectively I 2 miles due east of Salerno, 1 0 miles to the north of Potenza, and 25 miles north-west of Taranto —were captured. The communique reports a continuing aerial offensive against the enemy front and rear. A correspondent says that the Allied forces battling through the western mountains have reached a point from which they can see the smoke now hanging over Naples. Ihe fighting is very tough. The Germans, harried at every turn, are blowing up bridges and laying mines in our path. The terrain is worse than the battlegrounds of Sicily or Tunisia.
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Dominion, Volume 36, Issue 309, 24 September 1943, Page 7
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148ADVANCE IN ITALY Dominion, Volume 36, Issue 309, 24 September 1943, Page 7
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