ALLIED TROOPS POURING DOWN INTO PLAIN

Wairarapa Times-Age, 30 September 1943, Page 3

ALLIED TROOPS POURING DOWN INTO PLAIN

German Hill Defences Smashed EIGHTH ARMY SWINGING IN FROM EAST ENEMY HOLD ON CORSICA NARROWED LONDON, September 29. The Fifth Army has smashed through the German hill defences north and west of Salerno and is advancing rapidly on Naples. The key town of Nocera, besides several other towns and the whole of the peninsula fronting the Bay of Naples, have fallen into Allied hands. Latest reports are that troops are pouring down from the hills towards Naples. A New York radio reports that Allied troops have already captured Pompeii, only 14 miles from the centre of Naples. The Germans fought bitterly for six days in an attempt to hold their hill positions, but when they found the situation impossible they carried out a swift and orderly withdrawal. The Eighth Army is driving forward from Foggia and, on the right flank, Allied troops are reported to be ten miles from Avellino. The Germans admit the evacuation of a number of places on the road to Avellino. In Corsica, the French have captured an enemy centre 20 miles south of Bastia. The Germans now hold only the extreme north-eastern corner of the island.