The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1943-09-22
Allied Attack Puts
Line 60 Miles Beyond Lac
New Advance
in Russia,
Italy
~ Int.-osIIo0al NV, service

tBy international $eps Service
4 sudden, new Allied airborrs
attack which extended the NeR
Guinea land front to a point 81
miles north vest OF captured Lac
was announced today by Gen. Doug.
Las MacArthur's headquarters.
This new development in the
mounting war In the Southwest Pa
riflc came as the Algiers radio 70.
ported Allied capture Of The road
and rail- junction OF sPOIeuza, %
miles east OF Sslerno and German
forces fought losing battles In Cor
slca and Russia.
In New Guinea. Allied troopA
flown north in huge transport
planes were In possession OF haia
pit. only 20 miles south OF the biK
Jap base At MadanR they seized
the enemy stronghold after fepuls
ing desperate counter attacks by
the surprised Nipponese.
Seizure OF Kaiaplt ouiflanks the
Nipponese shipping and supply
base at Finschhafen, on the Huon
Gulf to the east
As the Allied jungle troops al
tackled the Japs at Kaiapit heavy
and medium bomberB with fighter
escort raked enemy communities
ton lines south OF Madang. Fifty
four tons OF bombs and nearly l2V,-
600 rounds OF cannon and machine
gun fire were lOosed.
The two Alrfields at Wewak, CHIEF
nesting place OF Nipponese air
strength In New Guinea. also we're
assaulted with 81 tons OF bombs.
The Japs retaliated With raids on
Allied positions in the Markham
River valley and Nella Ieyalla L.
land in the Solomons The raids
cost the Japs ~ planes lost
Naples Sacked
DISPATCHES from the Italian front
said heavy pall OF smoke over
Naples indicated that the Germans
were carrying out demolitions IN
anticipation OF the impending Al
lied effort TO drive the Nazis from
the city 4 frontline correspond
ent quoted refugees from Naples
as saying the Germans have mined
the neighborhood Of the big port
and are saching the city.
There was no confirmation OF a
report broadcast by the British
radio that the Allies already have
started Smelling Naples from the
captured Sorrento Heights on the
south.
HEADQUARTERS Of French General
Henri Honore Giraud reported that
French regulars and Corsican pa
triots pushed five spearheads Into
German defenses on Corsica. Con
| tact had been made with the Nazis
at Bohifacio and Porto Necchio.
last.Vniportant southern ports stlll
held by the Germans. The enem'
was reported herded into the east
ern part OF the island with the en-
tire western portion reclaimed.
French forces in the north who
captured St Florent pushed the
Germans back toward Bastla, the
largest city on the island.
Climax Near
In Russia. a climax in the battle
for Kiev appeared to be near. Sow
ct capture OF the railroad town OF
/ Chernigoy. IS miles northeast OF
the German bastion and within
only 20 miles OF the Middle Dnieper
River marked final collapse Of tina
I once-formidable German defense
| line along the Desna River.
Among more than .i40 Russian
/ towns and villages liberated was
/ sinelnikovo in the Dniepropetrovse
sector OF the southern front. Sinel-
nikovo is the junction OF four main
/ railroads connecting Dniepropet-
rovsk Sith Zaparozhe, Kharkov and
[ the Donets basin.
In this sector. according TO a
Stockholm dispatch TO London. =
Russian Cossack unit a few miles
ahead OF the main Soviet forces al
ready has reached the banks OF the
nnfana.