Russians claim that enemy resistance north of Melitopol has been broken. Further advances made in the Dnieper Bend, and the Red army is now 20 miles from Krivoi Reg Fifih Army continues to make progress on the Upper Voiiurnp Plain. In (lie Contra' Apennines the Eighlh Army has established itself in new positions. Loulou has another air raid alert, for the seventh successive night; bombs dropped. The 23,000-ton British aircraft carrier Victorious was loaned to the United States to serve with a naval task force in the Pacific. New types of American bombers and fighters now being used by the Fleet Air Arm. Some of the heaviest fighting of the New Guinea campaign is exoectcd in the new developments near Finschhafen.
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Evening Star, Issue 25003, 23 October 1943, Page 1
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