ALLIED FORCES IN ITALY

Wairarapa Times-Age, 4 October 1943, Page 3

ALLIED FORCES IN ITALY

Benevento Taken by Fifth Army GENERAL MONTGOMERY’S TROOPS MEETING STIFFER RESISTANCE HILL COMMANDING BASTION TAKEN BY FRENCH LONDON, October 3. . In Italy, the Fifth Army has entered Benevento, 30 miles north-west of Naples. The Eighth Army is also pressing on and has reached Ariano, 20 miles due east of Benevento. Both flanks of the Fifth Army have penetrated on either side of Vesuvius and have reached more open country. The Algiers radio says all aerodromes round Naples are now in Allied hands. The Eighth Army is meeting with stiffer German resistance <md in some sectors has had to deal with enemy counter-attacks. I Air activity has been limited to that of fighters and fighterThree enemy planes were destroyed yesterday. An enemy transport column was attacked. Twenty-five trucks were destroyed and 30 others damaged. These operations cost three French headquarters in North Africa report the capture of a hill which is the key to Bastia, in Corsica. The French now hold the entire line of hills dominating the port. The Germans have made a sea and air attack against Koss, one of the islands in the Dodecanese group occupied by the Allies recently. The necessary counter-measures are being On Friday night the R.A.F. attacked airfields in Rhodes without loss.