ON THE NAPLES

Pahiatua Herald, Volume XLXII, Issue 15466, 29 September 1943, Page 3

ON THE NAPLES

WHOLESALE ENEMY RETREAT STEADY ALLIED ADVANCE ARDUOUS FIGHTING CONTINUES United Press Assn —By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. LONDON, Sept. 27The Allied forces tonight are less than 20 miles from both Naples and Foggia, two prizes of the present phase of tlie Italian campaign. Field-Marshal K-esselring’s army while trying to hold up General Montgomery’s men m the approaches to Naples is pulling out rapidly along the rest of its line. The Algiers correspondent of “The Times” says that the Fifth Army’s advance west and north of Salerno has continued stead ly, though tlie pace has been slowed by the necessity of mopping up enemy strongpoints and repairing bridges and roads. Seven days’ arduous fighting in the eastern sector were rewarded by the capture of the villages of Calabritto and Cass a no, 25 and 20 miles respectively north-east of Salerno, dominating an important network of roads Our troops today are consolidating their positions and organising supply routes across difficult mountainous country.