The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-09-22

story-book fashion. Several days ago. a British patrol climbed Into an Italian train and rode almost to the town. The men hopped off the cars, struck into hills overlooking Poten- za and for four days sent back in- formation on German movements.
 The Allies now control zig-2ag line more than 200 miles long across the Italian Peninsula below Naples. The line starts ct the Sorrento Pen- insula on the west coast, runs east ward to salerno, hter six and Q half miles northeast to san Cipriano, then 13 miles southeast to CaHnpagna passing through Montecorvino Rov- ella. From there 1t extends l5 miles southeast to Castelcivita, then 20 miles southeast to Sala Consillana on the Tenagro river, then 20 miles northeast to Portenza and continues 50 miles southeast to Rotondella which is 70 miles southwest of Tar- anto The line runs northeast to Mottola, l7 miles northwest of Tar anto and finally runs Ilorthward to Gioia andBari on theeast coast
 Battle of SalernO
 The battle of the salerno bridge- head is over, an official announce ment said, and the battle for Naples is approaching. The battlefield southeast of Salerno, where the Ger mans sought unsuccessfully to drive the Anglo-A American troops back inc to the sea, was said to be filtered with destroyed neemy tanks, guns and equipment.
 The Allies inflicted heavy losses on the Gerra ms, both in killed and captured material, Q spokesman re- ported. Non- Germans are among the enemy combat prisoners now be- ing captured, he said, but he did not specify their nationality.
 GA German communique broad cast by Radio Berlin said there was only local fighting in southern Italy. The German news agency DNB as- serted that German submarines in the Mediterranean had sunk three destroyers, one freighter and one transport and also had torpedoed Q large refrigerator ship.)
 A French comrnunique disclosed that French Commandos and Cor. sican patriots had liberated half of French Corsica and were hemming the Germans back against the east coast after eight days of fighting that included the repulse of at least ma NaIi nnsaY1kar kkanhp
 In the air, American four -engined Liberators swept 160 miles north of Rome and bombed the harbor at German Held Leghorn, Italys third largest commercial port and the site of an important gasoline refinery.
 (Nazl broadcasts from France said that Allied planes flew over Sofia Monday night, drawing anti aircraft fire. Though the broadcast did not mention their target, Sofia lies on the air route from Egypt and Libya to the Ploesti oil fields in Rumania.)
 A strong force of the giant bomb. CTS blasted shipping, harbor facili- ties and industrial installations at Leghorn in the face of heavy anti: aircraft fire. Returning crews re- ported direct hits on Q number of factories. Only two German planes were encountered.
 BastlA Hit
 Other Liberators hit Bastia, Naxl- occupied port in northeast Sardinia, touching off fires and explosions near fuel tanks.
 An air communique revealed that the Liberators had been shifted to the northwest African Air Forces from the Eighth Air Force in Bri- tain.
 Lieutenant General Mark W. Clark's Fifth Army, swinging east and north in Q broad arc from It's Salerno-AgropoN bridsehead, cap tured Campagna, 20 miles east of Salerno, Montecorvino and Rovella, l2 miles east, and San Cipriano, seven miles northeast. in advances of up to four miles yesterday.
 The Fifth Army was fighting its way onto the highest peaks of the mountains around Salerno, which rise in places to 5000 feet. Front dispatches described the terrain as worse for military operations than either Tunis.a or Sicily. Most guns and equipment nave to be moved by hand or by animal, since motor ve-