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WILTING UNDER PUNCH

GERMAN ARMY IN ITALY ALLIED TROOPS FANNING OUT IN ALL DIRECTIONS. BATTLE FOR ROME HAS BEGUN. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) (Received This Day, 12.30 p.m.) LONDON, October 14. Having crossed Volturno River and breached the German lines the Allied armour division is fanning out in all directions from the north bank and is now threatening to isolate Kesselring's troops. Reuter's correspondent at the Allied Headquarters declared that Kesselring's army is wilting under General Clark's punches, falling back tonight towards the Carigliano River, about eighteen miles north of Volturno, and the Aurunct mountains just beyond the river Formia which run down almost to the sea. The Germans are expected to make a srand here. The Fifth Army's offensive is one of the heaviest of the Italian campaign. A great weight of men and metal was thrown in. The Fifth Army used assault boats and other craft to cross the Volturno. but many of the troops swam across the river. Engineers bridged the river under fire to get the armour over. The toughened vanguard of the Fifth Army crossed under a deadly hail from ma-chine-guns and multi-barrelled mortars. The Fifth Army gained the bridgeheads east and west of Capua. The Columbia Broadcasting System’s correspondent said that the battle for Rome has begun. The Germans evidently anticipating an attack struck before the Fifth Army. The Germans managed to recross the river and capture some positions but the Fifth Army waiting until everything was ready, hit back and drove the Germans from the area south of the Volturno, crossed the river and established substantial bridgeheads. The Fifth Army’s right wing had the support of the air force in capturing Guardia, thus increasing a very real threat against the enemy's eastern flank. ROME ROAD CUT EIGHTH ARMY ATTACKING VOLTURNO PLAIN. BEHIND THE GERMAN LINES. (Received This Day, 12.35 p.m.) LONDON, October 14. The Cairo radio tonight declared that Allied forces had already cut the main road to Rome north of Capua, on the north side of the Volturno River. Allied forces in the central sector are about seven miles from Vinchaituro. According to the Algiers radio, the Eighth Army is now attacking the Volturno Plain behind the German lines. It continues to advance along the Fog-gia-Vinchaituro .road. The Allied attack now threatens the entire network of roads from Termoli. Foggia and Benevento towards Vinchaituro. Allied medium bombers practically wiped out the German held town of Alife, which is 15 miles north-east of Capua. Eighth Army patrols have occupied Gildoni, seven miles south of Campobasso. GERMAN CLAIMS FIGHTING DESCRIBED AS BITTER. BRITISH SUCCESS IN CAPUA AREA ADMITTED (Received This Day, 12.35 p.m.) LONDON, October 14. The Berlin radio stated that gunfire from Allied warships lying oiT the mouth of the Volturno River and new Allied landings north of the mouth, formed part of the operations of the Fifth Army in lightning assaults, in which they succeeded in crossing the river. The radio added taht a large unit went ashore under cover of naval guns. “Its task was to advance westwards of the Volturno valley and thereby roll up the German lines. Local German reserves, which were prepared for the attack, threw back the force and pressed it close to the coast, where it lies under the fire of German, guns.” The radio admitted that the British established bridgeheads on the north bank, and described the fighting as bitter. “Heavy counter-attacks threw back the British across the river or so compressed their bridgeheads that they cannot be used for offensive purposes. In clearing up a bridgehead we wiped out a British regiment and took several hundred prisoners.” »

The Berlin radio adds: “Only in the Capua area did the British armoured forces succeed in penetrating more deeply into the German defensive system, while at other parts of the Voltuino front the German lines held everywhere.”

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Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi

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Ngā taipitopito pukapuka

Wairarapa Times-Age, 15 October 1943, Page 4

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Tapeke kupu
639

WILTING UNDER PUNCH Wairarapa Times-Age, 15 October 1943, Page 4

WILTING UNDER PUNCH Wairarapa Times-Age, 15 October 1943, Page 4

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