The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-10-21
The WorO On
 MonyFronts
By UNITED PRESS

By UNITED PRESS
 Allied troops fought forward to. day in @ threat to turn the flank of the new German line in Italy as Berlin betrayed fears of an attack on Rome and anxiety over the weakening Nazi position in Russia.
 With Lieut.. Gen. Mark w. Clarke 6 Fifth Army gathering to slam into the Germans, the British Eighth Army took two towns dominating the road to Isernia within short striking distance of the enemys Eastern anchor point at Venafro.
 The eighth's seizure of the towns -Busso and Oratino-in the rugged mountains of Central Italy repre- sented two-mile advance but Clark's forces to the west, blocked by drainage ditches, quagmires, enemy fires and fierce Nazi artillery, moved up slowly to probe the Ger man positions 90 miles below Rome,
 The Northwest African air force was in action to make the German hold on Rome as difficult as pos- sible. Hitting north of the capital, flying Actresses knocked out three railroad bridges and battered air. fields which would be vital to de. fense of the city.
 Berlin talked somberly about the situation in Russia and Moscow dispatches showed continued suc- cess in the massive drive carrying the Red Army through the bend of the Dnieper river and bidding to cut off 100000 enemy troops.
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 Moscow said advance Russian guards already were more than Q third of the way across the Dnieper bulge, pushing to within 27 miles of the steel and rail center of Hrivoi Rog in an advance of better than six miles.
 The Russians were aiming at the last rail line which the Germans can use to get out of Dneprope- trovsk and hoping to cut off tens of thousands of the enemy south ward in the Crimea.
 At Kiev, Russian endorsements made ready for the final drive from five miles north of the city, which was under seige.
 The air war against the German Reich went back on full schedule for the first time in several days. A few hours after American fly ing fortresseS bombarded Duren, near Cologne, big fleets of British night bombers struck with 1000 tons of bombs at Leipzig. air center and important rail junction.
 The attack, first on LiepZig in nearly three years, indicated the RAF was now picking out the plac- es to which the Germans have moved their industries from homb- devastated areas.
 Berlin Bombed Light Mosquito hombers gave Ber- lin its fifth sleepless night this month with a needing raid. Seven- teen RAF bombers were lost. Eight American planes were missing from yesterdays daylight action.
 Mitchell bombers Of the north- west African Air Force, extending their striking power another 100 miles, attacked Ms, Jugoslavia, bat tering an enemy airfield, in direct support of guerrilla forces continu- ing their struggles with the Ger mans.
 The raid was made as Jugoslav Partisans cut down German coun- ter-attacks along the Adriatic, coast and seized the initiative for an of- fensive in central Bosnia. Heavy battles were reported raging near Cetinje, Montenegrin capital near the Albanian border.
 Tn the Pacific, @ new American bombing attack on the Gilbert islands was reported today by Tokyo radio, which has predicted an all- out United Sttaes attempt to clean up the Japanese outpost system.
 Tokyo'S version said that six bombers made the assault and were driven off before they could inflict damage. No details of the attack were given and there was no of- ficial American announcement.
 Fight in New Guinea
 Tn New Guinea, several thousand Australian and Japanese troops were locked in 8 struggle near Finsch- hafen with the AuSsies throwing back continued enemy attacks aimed at recapturing the Huon Peninsula coastal base.
 To the north clashes were report ed on the approaches to the Jap- anese base at Madang.
 Fourteen Japanese planes were shot down by American bombers and fighters in a raid on Ballale ailr- drome in the northern Solomons. n1uu nVAyc rrsnnaQrc