KEY TO SUCCESS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 26 October 1943, Page 3

KEY TO SUCCESS

IN ALLIED AIR MASTERY CHAIN OF NEW BASES COMPLETED. CLOSE TO BATTLE FRONT. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) (Received This Day, 9.30 a.m.) LONDON, October 25. The Eighth Army is rapidly advancing towards Isemia, says the Morocco radio. Enemy pockets of resistance in the Beranello sector face the possibility of being surrounded. The Algiers radio says the Eighth Army is firmly holding bridgeheads on the north bank of the Trigno River. The left wing, making steady progress against heavy artillery fire, has captured dozens of strongpoints, each of which had to be attacked separately. The Allies have completed a chain of new airfields close to the Eighth Army’s line. Observers see in the Allies’ continued mastery of the air the key to success. The Desert Air Force and the Tactical Bomber Force are now in position and equipped to reinforce the Eighth Army with a devastating air cover. A Reuter correspondent says a striking illustration of the passive attitude of the Luftwaffe is found in the fact that many more abandoned German planes have been found in Italy than on all the Sicilian airfields. They now total 1320. HEAVY TASK AMERICAN MINISTER’S OBSERVATIONS. GOOD ANGLO-AMERICAN TEAMWORK. LONDON, October 24. The Secretary of the United States Treasury, Mr Morgenthau, who has been making a tour of the Mediterranean war zone, told correspondents at Algiers today that people at home were far too optimistic about the war. When he saw the mountains above the Volturno valley, and when it was pointed out how they increased in height further north, he said, he realised that we should be fighting uphill all the time. Mr Morgenthau was deeply impressed by the teamwork between Britain and America in the Mediterranean theatre.