The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-10-07
The War On
 Many Fronts
(by Unlted PresSl

German forces struggled today Co hold river lines on the Italian and Russian fronts against gathering Allied armed might but lost q des- perate bid to stall the British Eighth Army.
 Aided by naval guns, General Sir Bernard L.. Mortgomery's Eighth veterans smashed q Naxi counter attack near the Biferr1o river along the Italian Adriatic coast and pounded forward in the toughest lighting of their campaign up the Peninsula
 Other developments the past A hours that showed a rising crescen- do of battle against Hitler's far spread armies included:
 1. The Anglo American Fifth Army closed toward the Volturno river line above Naples with their apparent main objecti. - and the biggest crossing -- at Capua in easy artillery range.
 2. Flying Fortresses carrying the offensive deep into the heart of German resistance struck at the vital rail lines in the Venice area for the first time in Q 1,2O0-inile flight.
 8. The Russians hauled up guns and reinforcement to batter the west bank of the Dnieper river pre- paratory to full-Scale attempts to cross at the first possible moment.
 Nazi Field Marshal Albert Kessel. ring betrayed his fear of an encir- element by Allied troops iammering toward Rome by rushing troops in forced marches across the moun- tains to counter attack at the Fifer- no line.
 Partial Success
 Allied reports showed he was pAr- tially successful. But British troops recovered, held, beat their way back against enemy tanks and forced a crossing, meanwhile saving their coastal anchorage at Termol, where they landed in an amphibious hop last week.
 Allied North African headquarters corrected yesterdays reported cross- ing of the Volturno 18 miles north of Naples and said crossing re- ported earlier, had taken place over the Galore, @ tributary, in the hills around Benevento.
 Headquarters reports said the Germans, while deployed in strength on the Volturno, were expected to light only a delaying action there.
 Flying Fortresses slashed at the Mestre rail yards 10 miles west of Venice which the Germans use to transport essential Army supplies. The attack was made from North African bases yesterday while other planes hammered steadily in ad- vance of the troops. Six enemy planes were shot down.
 Russian planes likewise were aid- ing their armies along the lower and middle reaches of the Dnieper, hit- ting at trains and key points jam med with enemy troops and muni- tions. Front dispatches described intense artillery duels across the river, which pictures published in Moscow showed to be running at uoOQ keVelSs
 Reds Fight
 North of the Dnieper Red Army troops beat of continued German counter attacks before their White Russian bastions. Twenty-Five Nazi planes were shot down along the Soviet front. The Russians improv- ed their positions within sight of Gomel, hingle of the enemy's White Russian line.
 A British announcement Acknowl- edged that forces trying to hold the Island of COS in the Dodecanese had lost their airflelds and the main town but still were fighting German troops who landed last Sunday.
 Tn the Pacific, the third American air-sea attack on Japan'S island outposts in five weeks without re- ported enemy retaliation served no- tice to Tokyo today that the United States Navy is preparing to roll en- emy's forces back across the Pacific.
 The latest attack was on con- quered Wake Island. An announce ment from Admiral Chester w. Nim- itz at Pearl Harbor gave no details but the attack by carrier.hased planes presumably was similar to those against the Gilberts Sept. 1S- 10 and Marcus Island Sept. 1.
 A Pearl Harbor dispatch said the operations by an American task force moving on Q destructive path along the wide reaches of the Pa- cific was added evidence that naval assaults on big scale were about to start.
 Elsewhere in the Pacific Allied forces scored new successes. Austral- ian troops moved down the Ramu Valley in New Guinea to within 50 miles of the Japanese base at Ma dang while flying fortresses and liberators rained bombs and ma chine gun shells on enemy roads and bases on the northeast coast.
 Chinese reports indicated a large- scale Japanese drive against poten- tial Allied bomb Tokyo" bases in the lower Yangtze area had been halted, at least temporarily.
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