BRIDGEHEAD ESTABLISHED

Pahiatua Herald, Volume XLXII, Issue 15481, 16 October 1943, Page 3

BRIDGEHEAD ESTABLISHED

ACROSS THE VOLTURNO ALLIES MAKE ADVANCES ON ROAD TO ROME. U&ifced Press Assn. —By Eleetno TeiegJ aDh—Copyright LONDON, October 14. Allied tanks and guns continue to pour across the Volturno River and our bridgeheads are w r ell establ shed, say. lat© despatches Lorn frontline correspondents. Rome radio admits that in the Capua region British armoured forces have penetrated the German defence system to a considerable depth. Berlin radio stated that the new Allied landing mentioned earlier was made near Oastel Volturnc on the north shore of the Volturno Estuary. Reuter’s correspondent says the extension of our bridgeheads over th© Volturno enabled heavier weapons to reach the vanguards of Hie Fifth Army. The Allies hav© immense reserves, also every conceivable weapon, for this big push. The British United Press points out the significance of the first bridgeheads is that they lie on both sides of the road from Capua across th© fertile plains of Campania towards Spar anise This is tli© main road to Rome. Th© crossing of the Volturno must rank as the most important Allied military success sine© the capture of Naples.

A letter found on a German para troop corporal at Termoli from .i relative in Northern Italy said: “W© live on Italian produce. You had better not ask how w© got it. We keep the Italians’ kitchens busy. They servo us lik© princes. I think that is right. The Italian swine must be bled.” The first detachments of tlic Fifth Army forces crossed the Volturno without a shot being filed at them, says the Columbia Broadcasting System’s representative in a broadcast from Algiers. Allied gun s opened up along a lengthy strip of river bank and thereafter concentrated on a single point. The Germans, thinking a big attack was coming there, heavily counter fired. Meanwhile, from a point down, stream Fifth Army forces began pouring across th© river and continued to do so for about an* hour without drawing any enemy fire.