The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-09-11
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Foggia and Barletta and south to- ward the Calabrian Peninsula, where the British Eighth Army was reported making steady progress up the northwest and southeast coasts of the Italian foot in pursuit of flee ing German units.
 The Germans were throwing all their strength into fierce counter attacks near Salerno in an attempt to stem the Anglo o-American drive toward Naples, but official reports emphasized that the Allied forces everywhere were making progress.
 Fifth Army Continues
 "The Fifth Army continued to es- tablish themselves ashore yesterday. beating of several German counter attacks" General Dwight D. Eisen- hower's ground force communique said. "The port of Salerno had been captured and steady progress inland is being made"
 On the Italian south coast, Brit iSh forces continued to stream ashore ct the Italian naval base of Taranto, which was captured Thurs day night, but there was no imme- diate indication of their next ob- jective.
 Wave after wave of Allied med fun, light and fighter bombers of the Northwest African Air Forces blasted and strafed enemy held rail ways, road functions, bridges and airtlelds in the Naples area in sup port of the ground forces.
 Night bombers climaxed the round -the-clock offensive last night with a raid on the road junction of Formia, 45 miles north of Naples while fighter -bombers were credited with destroying @ large number ot vehicles at another road junction above Lagonegro, 90 miles south oi Naples.
 IS Planes Shot Down
 Eighteen enemy planes were shot down yesterday, while 10 planes from the northwest African Air Forces were lost.
 American Liberator bombers from the middle eastern command ir daylight yesterday raided the Satel. lite landing ground at Foggia, s( miles east of Naples, for the third straight day, concentrating on the eastern dispersal area of the Pal. mori airfield. However, haze and cloud prevented accurate obServa- ton of results.
 Considerable fighter opposition was encountered, but on Q scale greatly reduced from the preceding days. One intercepting fighter was shot down. All bombers returned safely to base.
 Delayed reports boosted the Fly. ing Fortresses' bag of enemy fight. CTS over Foggia last Tuesday to 38
 The Escape
 The escape of the Italian warship! to Malta was revealed in a specia communique that implied the forct included all seven Italian battle, ships. Consisting of only one sen tence, It said:
 'The battleships, some cruiser and certain other units of the Ital ian fleet arrived at Malta"
 Though the number of warship involved was not stated, 1t wa learned that the flotilla was large even than the escorting Allied fleet
 The warships apparently sailed t. Malta in response to the orders o Admiral Sir Andrew Browne Gun ningham, Allied naval commando in the Mediterranean, to the Italian fleet Thursday to put into Alliet ports to prevent seizure by the Ger mans.
 GA dispatch from the Spanisl frontier town of La Linea said tw, Italian light cruisers, two destroy CTS and two other units, apparent ly aircraft carriers, had entered Gib raltar shortly before noon yesterday One Italian merchant ship also cn tered the port. the dispatch said)
 Port Of EmbarkatiOn
 While there was no immediat word as to the port from which tn Italian flotilla sailed, its arrival wa announced only a little more thai 24 hours after British naval anI ground forces seized the naval bas