BRINDISI CAPTURED

Wairarapa Times-Age, 13 September 1943, Page 3

BRINDISI CAPTURED

ITALY’S BIGGEST ADRIATIC PORT

Eighth Army Making Good Headway STRONG ENEMY RESISTANCE SOUTH OF NAPLES I BUT ALLIED OPERATIONS AHEAD OF SCHEDULE LONDON, September 12. Italy’s biggest port in the Adriatic Sea, Brindisi, has fallen into Allied hands in good working order. The Italian dock workers are co-operating with the Allies. • Brindisi, which is on the heel of Italy, has a first-class harbour for big ships and an airport. Allied bombers are closer to South Eastern Europe than ever before. Albania is only 70 iniles across the Straits of Otranto. Brindisi was captured by British troops who made a lightning 40-mile thrust across the heel from Taranto and found the port undamaged. British parachute troops, who are holding positions north and north-east of Taranto, are now. in contact with the enemy. The British Eighth Army has advanced 75 miles from its first landing beach. In the Salerno area, south of Naples, the Allied troops are meeting tough opposition, both on land and in the air. It is here that the Allied troops are meeting the hard core of German resistance. In spite of this resistance the operations are ahead of schedule. The German-controlled Rome radio announces that the whole of occupied Italy is under German military law.