IN SALERNO AREA

Dominion, Volume 36, Issue 310, 25 September 1943, Page 7

IN SALERNO AREA

All Heights Captured

(British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, September 23. Today, two weeks after they had landed on the beaches, troops of. the Fifth Army had occupied every height in the Salerno area. In some parts of the American section it is the Germans who are now down in the flat country, exposed to relentless shelling, states a correspondent with the Fifth Army. Nowhere in the American section are the Germans attacking; they are withdrawing slowly along the whole front. In some instances the American push up into the mountains has been so rapid that the Germans have had to make hurried departures from small mountain towns to avoid being taken in the pusses. "The war in our area is developing aloug the lines of the latter stages of the Sicilian campaign,” states a eorrespondent with the Fifth Array. 'Our troops are encountering mines and demolitions for the first time since the landing. and particularly ou the mountainous sectors this is holding up the advance.’ The correspondent adds that the Germans seem ter have withdrawn all. heavy guns. . , The Allied air support continues to be first-rate. Striking forces have been out day and night attacking enemy troops and communications in the battle area. They struck systematically at the enemy's communications iu the Naples area, meeting with little resistance.