ALLIES’ STEADY ADVANCE

Waikato Times, Volume 132, Issue 22151, 24 September 1943, Page 5

ALLIES’ STEADY ADVANCE

MORE TOWNS CAPTURED IN ITALY GERMANS SOUTHING SHIPS AT NAPLES WARSHIPS’ BLOCKADE—PREVENTION OE ESCAPE LONDON, Sept. 2:5. hile the Fifth and Eighth Armies are steadily advancing m Italy the Germans are wrecking the port of Naples. *\t least 30 ships have been scuttled. The Germans evidently do not expect to hold any part of Italy south of Naples. An Algiers communique says: The Fifth and Eighth Armies continued to advance and captured Ginosa and Aviglano, which are north-west of Potenza, and Acerno. The enemy continues to cling hard to positions in the we :ern sector pending the withdrawal of the left flank. Today, two weeks after they landed on the beaches, Fiftli Army troops have occupied every height in the Salerno area and in some parts of the American section. It is the Germans who are now down in the flat country, exposed to relentless shelling, states a correspondent with the Fifth Army. Nowhere in the American section are the Germans attacking. They are withdrawing slowly along the whole front. In some instances the American push up into the mountains has been so rapid that the Germans have had to make hurried departures from the small mountain towns to avoid being taken in the passes. Allied warships are blockading the east coast of Corsica to prevent the escape of the Germans, who are being driven into the north-east corner of the island by French and American troops. General Ciraud has paid a brief visit to Corsica. Italian ships are still arriving at Malta. The total to date is 65.