Late War News APPROACH TO NAPLES
Difficulties For Fifth Army
INLAND TOWN CAPTURED
LONDON, October 1. The reason why the occupation of Naples is taking days instead of hours is that the enemy is leaving behind pockets of resistance which have to be cleared up, and the Fifth Army forces are meeting with demolitions on a big.'er scale than has previously been encountered in Italy, reports a correspondent at Algiers. Railway bridges hate been blown down on to the roads and all river bridges demolished. • Algiers radio says that Italian uutiFascists in Naples, working in co-oper-ation with the advance of the I’lfth Army, are already in control of part oi communique states that the advance toward Naples continued in the face of great difficulties. t The communique reports the capline of Avellino, 35 miles north-east of Naples A correspondent says tins suggests that the Germans may not bo able to establish a line on the Aolturno River north of Naples, as Avellino is only 15 miles from the head ot the river valley.
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Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 6, 2 October 1943, Page 6
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173Late War News APPROACH TO NAPLES Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 6, 2 October 1943, Page 6
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