TIDE TURNED

Wairarapa Times-Age, 17 September 1943, Page 4

TIDE TURNED

- ■ GERMAN WEDGE SMASHED ” IN PLAIN SOUTH OF SALERNO. ; HOT PURSUIT OF ENEMY. (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, 10.55 a.m.) RUGBY, September 16. The tide of the Salerno battle has turned. After four days of battle against furious German counter-attacks, - the Fifth Army has taken’ the offensive. The German wedge between the Sele and Calore rivers, in the plain some 17 miles south-east of Salerno, has already been smashed and the Germans are retreating north-west of Altaville, ten miles south of Eboli. with the Fifth Army in hot pursuit. The Eighth Army, racing north, is expected to be in con-, tact with the Germans in a matter of hours. REPORTED SUICIDE FORMER ITALIAN CHIEF OF STAFF STRANGE CIRCUMSTANCES (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, 10.55 a.m.) RUGBY, September 16. Marshal Ugo Cavallero, former Italian Chief of the General Staff, committed suicide, according to the German-controlled Italian news agency, “because he was unable to bear the dishonour of the shameful capitulation of his country.” Marshal Cavallero commanded the Italian troops defeated, at Guadalajar, in the Spanish Civil War. In this war he was defeated in Libya and was then macle Chief of Staff, commanding the troops who were defeated in Greece. Mussolini subsequently dismissed him. Immediately prior to his soldiering,Marshal Cavallero was one of the richest industrialists in Italy. It is probable that his like that of King Boris of Bulgaria, will remain a mystery, but it is considered strange that tie should consider the moment of retease from captivity for the moment when life was no longer worth living.