ENEMY GROUPS
LEFT BEHIND IN ITALY
WITH ORDERS TO FIGHT TO DEATH.
DEMOLITIONS HINDERING ALLIED ARMIES.
(British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, 11.55 a.m.) RUGBY, October 5.
The Fifth Army advance averages a mile and a half daily, demolitions be,ing the chief cause of delay, states a war correspondent in Italy. Thickly wooded orchard country makes observe ation difficult and the roads are narrow. Prisoners say that small groups left behind to cover the retreat are ordered to fight until death. One prisoner was only sixteen years of age. Among airfields now in our hands are the main Naples airport, and another with two miles of concrete runways. Hundreds of enemy planes are burnt out on the ground. Another correspondent says that five German divisions are now holding the line from the coast. The enemy have increased their resistance in both coastal sectors. In the central sector, the Germans are holding the Allies with road blocks and contact is light.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 6 October 1943, Page 4
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