LAST TWELVE MILES

Wairarapa Times-Age, 2 October 1943, Page 3

LAST TWELVE MILES

OF ADVANCE INTO NAPLES JOY RIDE FOR ALLIED TROOPS GERMAN FLIGHT UNDER COVER OF DARKNESS CITY LEFT IN RUINS (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) (Received This Day, 11.40 a.m.) LONDON, October 1. The advance over the last twelve miles ip Naples was a joy ride for the British and Americans, says Reuter’s correspondent with the Fifth Army. The Germans fled under cover of darkness, after fighting all day. Allied spearheads are already pushing on beyond Naples towards Aversa and Capua. Their eyes are on Rome, about 100 miles ahead. The Algiers radio says Italian troops co-operated in the capture of Naples, guarding lines of communication and leaving the Allied forces free for offensive action. A Fifth Army column outflanking Naples from the east captured the city, which was in ruins when the Allied troops made their triumphant entry. All German pockets of resistance have been mopped up, adds the Algiers radio. The death blow to the German stand was the pummelling Allied battleships, lying offshore yesterday, gave the defence positions. ROAD OF DEATH WAR CORRESPONDENT’S LAST MESSAGE LONDON, September 30. The road to Naples is called “the road of death” by Mr A. B. Austin, a correspondent with the Fifth Army (whose death was reported yesterday). Mr Austin added: “For years this valley will be remembered as the scene of one of the hardest victories of the war.” Austin was the author bf “They Landed at Dawn,” an account of the Dieppe raid, copies of which reached New Zealand recently.