EIGHTH ARMY GAINS AIR BASE

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXX, Issue 21212, 29 September 1943, Page 3

EIGHTH ARMY GAINS AIR BASE

STRONG THRUST AGAINST NAPLES TANKS AND WARSHIPS SUPPORTING PUSH .ALLIES HOLDINmATIVE IN BATTLE (By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright.) (11.30 a.m.) , LONDON, Sept, 28. It is officially announced that Loggia, 75 miles east o:t Naples, which has an important airfield, with 12 satellite landing grounds has been captured by the Eighth Army. A communique' from Allied Headquarters in Algiers-says that the Eighth Army’s advance continues north of the Ofanto River. Loggia was captured with considerable enemy casualties. The Fifth Army advanced and captured limited objectives. The Fifth Army is throwing in tanks in support of a strong attack launched on Naples while Allied warships, which, according to Berlin reports, .were moved yesterday from Salerno Bay to the Gulf of Naples, are shelling the enemy on land, says the Vichy radio. The Morocco radio says that the Allies, in a sudden thrust supported by tanks, stormed important enemy positions north of Salerno. The Columbia Broadcasting System’s correspondent in Algiers says that by capturing several key positions in the mountainous north-eastern sector of the Salerno front, Fifth Army units are reported to have outflanked some German troops defending Naples. The Tunis radio says that the Allied Headquarters’ spokesman in Algiers said: “The initiative in the battle for Naples is firmly in our hands. The Germans are being continually pushed back.”