STEADY PRESSURE

Evening Post, Volume CXXXVI, Issue 74, 24 September 1943, Page 7

STEADY PRESSURE

Allied Armies In Italy

LONDON," September 23. The Fifth and Eighth Armies are moving forward in Italy in close co-ordination. ■•-..■."'

An Algiers communique says that the Fifth and Eighth Armies have continued to advance and have captured Ginosa and Avigliano, which are north-west of Potenza, and Aeerno. The enemy continues to cling hard to his positions in the western sector pending the withdrawal of his left flank. ' ■ ).

The Germans are hitting back at the Allied armies with infantry and tanks, and are being kept under steady pressure. The Allies have taken new ground some miles beyond Potenza, and are establishing useful lines of communications beyond. Part of the preparations are for the next full-scale battle.

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 in the Naples area, meeting with little resistance.

Italian ships of all description are still arriving in Malta. There are now 65, including battleships, and many merchant ships have arrived and left again for other ports. Rome radio, now under German control, tonight broadcast an appeal to Italian workers to go to Germany. The broadcast was in the name of Marshal Kesselring. It said that the Germans would protect their interests. The Italians could work in German war factories and would have the honour of working for the salvation of Europe. The addresses of the recruitment centres in Rome were given, and the radio said: "You will go to Germany as free workers, and you will be cordially received."

French headquarters reports that the Allied navies and air forces are blockading the east coast of Corsica, making it difficult for enemy escape traffic. Bombers'have attacked shipping between Bastia and Leghorn and made hits on five ships.

day continued their pressure 'on the Germans falling back to the northeastern corner of the island. The French Commander-in-Chief, General Giraud, paid a brief visit to Corsica and returned to Algiers this morning.

The Allied forces in Corsica yesterday continued their pressure 'on the Germans falling back to the northeastern corner of the island.