The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1943-09-18
Interpreting
The War
BY K1RKE L. SIMPSON,

Nazi forces already reeIiro
ward in Russia and in ItsIr Dac&'
under direct warning from p,s az
dent Roosevelt that thew bs,! res e
only a foretaste of what is in ne. ley
Tor them and their japanese SUN. W
Balkan accomplices. dA7
PRECISE plans" were sb.n,
Quebec, the president told 1;
convened Congress, for ~! re-
blows of equal or greater jr or.s'
lance against Germany ard It,,s's'
"Definite times and places a<. ii.
other landings on the conti1an ~ !,
Europe and elsewhere" bsya w. "
set, he added. peFo
The news from italy and pr.
UNDERSIGNED that pledge. With ti1S VA
junction Of the American Fifth IN. 'as
British Eighth armies at tss '- s. aaa
end of the SaIerno bridgebesdS O u,
campaign in Italy ceased to h. Vie .e
affair OF the landing beaches u!
became a full-scale drive ss II
ward up the Italian boot '''' '''
There can be no doubt that W..
divisions rushed to the Ss, aaA
front to halt or delay the seaber- -'
Fifth Army jncursion are ~ ..
back-tracking over inadeoua+a ",
bomb-blasted roads to escsns a Il"
trapment. ~ Gil
The first grim phase Of II. l..
tie Of Italy is over in q snsss Sa',
Allied victory, The speed WIN WIN
which the first spearhead O, -l +.
three pronged British sdvs1r.
from the south reached the saIeroa
theater clearly indicates that -.
Nazi high Command was taken w. 5'.
surprise. 1t has been outgrssssJ
as well as outfought thus fsr u
Italy as it was in Sicily.
1t is in Russia, however ~,
tle must olN1lous developments
for the Observation-Disclosures ds
rectly traceable to the Allied /.
vasion of the Italian mainland and
the Italian capitulation-are clear,
~ visible. Despite the Russisr,'
insistence that the Allied e4ort
still is short of full second.tront
effect, the signs are plain that i
is the shifting of German reserve:
from the east to the Balkans and
Italy that has opened the way for
the tremendous Red army thrust
in the center that has reached al.
most to the environs Of Kiev.
Red spearheads are along Tho
east bank of the Desna river lust
above its confluence with the Dnie.
per at Kiev. They are knocking
at the same door to Kiev through
which the Germans lunged in a
surprise drive down the Desna 10
take the city and unhinge the
whole southern Russian defense
front two years ago.
The explanation appears 10 be-
that German divisions from that
front in the Dnieper loop must
have been pulled out to be rushed
TO Italy and the Balkans. They
were the closest for quick trans
portation to the tottering south
wall of the European fortress
Russian discovery of Nazi weak.
ness in the Dnieper loop was
prompt. Red forces have carved
a westward bulge into German
lines between Nazi "evacgaed"
Bryansk and Russian captured 10,
sovaya more than 300 miles wide
and more than 200 miles Deep
It is threatening northward the
last westward escape route from
the Bryansk salient for TIE e7aT.
the Bryansk-Gomel ra-uad and
highway system to the 1capet
Berlin's reiterated ann0~.me1t
of the surrender of Brya-# N.
Gates that a desperate race"'a
refuge of the west bank DIN
Dnieper is on in that sector
Southwark the Kiev bulge threat
ems at any moment to sweep down
upon the Dnieper crossings in Tes'
of retreating Nazi forces sti!l
pendous military disaster for Tie
foe in Russia. Only the start Q.
the fall rains seemingly could
avert it.