POST-WAR WORLD

Evening Post, Volume CXXXVI, Issue 72, 22 September 1943, Page 5

POST-WAR WORLD

VOTE OF AMERICAN POLICY LONDON, September 21. The United States House of Representatives has adopted a measure pledging America to a part in world affairs after the war or, as the resolution states, "a part in the appropriate international machinery to establish a just and lasting peace." The voting was 360 to 29.

The enemy artillery is giving our troops little trouble; however, the roads and mountain trails wer,e lavishly mined and engineers are clearing them under intense fire from cleverlyplaced mortar and machine-gun posts. The latest report, issued by the United Nations radio at Algiers, says the Allies now control all three roads leading to Naples from the Sorrento Peninsula, north of Salerno. Rec. 10 a.m. RUGBY, September 21.

The tactical and strategic air forces have been> hammering west-bound enemy transport in the Naples area. A correspondent at headquarters in North Africa says that about sixty trucks, laden with petrol and oil, travelling west of Potenza, were bombed and strafed, and when the fighterbombers moved away thirty big tank trucks were on fire and others damaged. Later, fighter-bombers made other discoveries of motor transport, and sixty-seven trucks were destroyed during the night and day, and as many damaged. Bombing activity was again concentrated close to the Salerno battlefront and the bombers attacked roads and railways within a short distance of the front. Again no enemy fighters attacked them. Flying Fortresses hit the railway yards at Torre Annunziata, the track south of Pompeii, and three roads south of Sarno. Marauders successfully raided a bottleneck between two railway yards at Formia, stopping southbound traffic. Last night Wellingtons bombed the road and railway yards at Benevento—B.O.W.

The naval bombardment force had a rest after the impressive shoot of the previous day, when over thirty tons were fired on targets, directed by a forward observation post. Hits were scored on German headquarters buildings and motor transport.

Algiers radio reports that the front now extends between Monte Vorvino, Ravello, Eboli, and the River Sele.— 8.0. W.