The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1943-09-13
War

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port was in good condition" when
the Allies stormed into It.
| An earlier Algiers broadcast
said British troops seized the Adria'
tic port OF Carl which. with Allied
occupied Brindisi, serves as the
principal outlets to invasion
threat ened Albania and Greece.
No Official News
There was no Official news OF
the fghting in the Naples area. but
an allied air communique said
heavy bombers yesterday delivered
Gripping assault on the Nazi
operated airdrome at Frosinone, As
miles southeast OF Rome and the
same distance from the Naples
area. Road functions near Naples
and communication facilities in
southern Italy also were attacked
particularly at Carleto. Auretta and
Sapri. in the path OF the adyanc,
ing British Eighth Army.
American air force headquarters
in the Middle East said Liberator
bombers heavily attacked German
held airdromes at Martha and
Calato on the Island OF Rhodes, on
Greece.
The Algiers radio said German
and Italian troops were battling
furiouSly for possession to Turin,
big industrial city in northern tia
ly, and that Italians also were
lighting the Germans near the
Ameyicag, bridgeheads north and
south Of Naples.
A Swiss radio report said Ger
man troops under Field Marshal
Erwin Rommel were in control OF
all northern Italy as far south as
Bologna. A London dispatch re-
ported German armament still was
pouring into Italy. including more
than 500 Nazi Tiger" tanks.
Malta reported arrival OF six
more surrendered Italian warships,
including the battleship Giullo
Ceasare, making at least 81 tia
liam naval units now in Allied
hands or on their way to Allied
held ports.
Raid Kurlle Islands
A new American bombing raid on
the northern Kurile Islands, site OF
the big Nipponese Paramushira
naval base. was reported by the
Tokyo radio. Quoting an official
Japanese communique, the broad
cast said Is American bombers Al
tackled installations in the Kuriles
yesterday and that eight of the
raiders were shot down. The enc
my report said two Japanese trans
port ships were afire and claim
ed damage to land installations
was extremely slight.
The Paramushira base lies 500
miles west of Kiska and 1920 miles
northeast of Tokyo. Paramushira
was raided by American bombers
several weeks ago.
Earlier, Gen. Thomas Blamey
Allied ground force commander in
the Southwest Pacific, was quoted
in London as saying that the Jar
garrison of 10000 troops at Lac
New Guinea, was doomed. since Y
now. has no means of evacuation
A communique from Gen. Mac
Arthurs headquarters announced
capture OF the airfield at Sala
maua. IS miles south of Lac, and
repulse of weak Jap counter-at
tacks at Lae's outer defenses.
Germans Withdrawn
The German withdrawal all alons
the blazing 600-mile Ukraine front
in Russia increased in momentum
as forward-surging Soviet armies
pressed within artillery range Of
Bryansk, west of Moscow, and
threatened to cut on the retreat
Of hundreds OF thousands OF Nazi;
in the Crimea and Caucasus.
The greatest threat to Bryansi
came from a Soviet column which
oyerran Belaya-Bereza, IL mile;
east OF the pivotal Nazi base or
| the Dnieper. while other Russian
units in nearby sectors reached
T points within so miles Of Kiev, CAPT
tai OF the Ukraine.
/ On he southern end OF the flam
ing battleline. Soviet units pressed
toward Paviograd and Melitopol
key functions on the Kharkov
/ Crimea railroad The Russian higi
command said In some sectors o.
this front the Nazi retreat ap
] proaches complete rout.