The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-09-07
THE WAR ON
 MANY FRONTS|
(By United Press)

United Nations land and air forces pounded Europe from the east, west and south today, and on the continental fighting fronts Axis troops were falling back before steadily advancing British and Rus sian armies.
 The British Eighth Army cap- tured the ancient town of Palmi in an eight-mile advance up the north- west coast of the Italian toe, run- ming Its string of communities seized since the Friday invasion to 38 and extending its beachhead front to more than 70 miles.
 The Red army reported that vir- tually all organized German re- sistance had ceased in the Donets Basis. The Nazis were withdrawing westward on a front hundreds of miles long, and stand short of the Dnieper river appeared impossible.
 Hundreds of planes, among them flying fortresses and American me- alum bombers, hammered ailr fields in France and Belgium by daylight after the Royal Air Force had loos- ed a concentrated and effective" assault on Munich by night.
 German propaganda broadcasts said 24 American four-motored planes attacked German convoy off the Dutch island of Terschell- ing in the North Sea. The Nazi claimed that all the l50 bombs dropped by the Americans fell into the sea, causing no damage.
 "Very Slight" Damage
 The steady advance of Gen. Ber- hard L. Montgomerys invasion army in italy against "very slight "opposi- ton raised the question of when and where the Axis would undertake the defense of the peniincula.
 Besides Palmi, the British troops took Delianova and Sinopoli, to the south and east, and moved inland to cut off the end of the penin- sula.
 American flying fortresses and me- dium bombers continued the sus- tained attack on Axis communica- tions in the Naples area. Air fields were the primary targets yes- terday.
 The big air offensive was being waged from Britain. For the sixth day American planes struck across the channel, at least three big for- nations being counted by watchers on the southeast coast of England after daylight.
 A two-hour procession of RAF bombers bombed Munich, cradle of the Na1 party and Prime Military objective with its railroads and in- dustral plants last night. They drop ped 1000 tons of bombs on the city and lost IS planes.
 Recapturing D0nets Basin
 Moscow reports indicated the Red Army was about to complete the job of recapturing the rich Donets industrial basin from the Germans and driving the invaders back to the Dnieper river.
 The capture of Makeevka, Slav- yansk, Kramatorsk, Donstantinovka and scores of other towns in the Basin yesterday, and the fact that Stalino was within the Soviet grasp, indicated that the last Nazi hope. WA AAOAAbA5 OAACAC AAa0 N9AAAokEAs
 To the northwest the Russians captured KosIotop, Key Bastion an- choring the outer defenses of Kiev, capital of the Ukraine which lies on to Dnieper l27 miles to the south- vest.
 In the Pacific, 10000 Japanese trccps were pinned today against the sec in two major bases on the New Guinea coast and threatened with destruction in an Allied trap closed by surprise landing of paratroop- CTS.
 Airport Seized
 The American and Australian forces sent down into the Markham valley behind Lac, Major enemy coastal base, already had seized an airport and were moving to increase the pressure on the hemmed in Japanese garrison.
 The paratroop actior, involving American troopers and Australians carrying light artillery. finished . ! senii-cIrcle reaching from below Saiamaua. approximately 26 miles southeast of Lac, to a point north east Of Lac where an amphibious opertion cut off the Japanese in that direction.
 Gen. Douglas MaeAFthur super vised the Sunday attack from c fly- ing fortress that was part of the largest air armada ever put togeth- CT in the Southern Pacific.
 A Japanese communiqne said that fighting in the Central Solo mons continued with undlminished feFocity" and that a battle ln the kula oulf area between Nee ueor.