The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-09-29
The War On
 MonyFronts
tBy United Press)

through broken German mountain defenses in a final lunge for Naples today as the raging battle for Italy's third largest city reached the climatic stage.
 Swift capture of Naples appeared imminent as the Germans retreat ed. orderly but surely, from their lines before the sacked and ravaged city.
 Driving the enemy from heights ringing the flatlands around Mt. Vesuvius, American and British troops crashed the German lines with bayonet, hand grenade and artillery fire.
 Nocera and Castellammare di Stabia-the latter only IS miles from Naples-fell along with the Sorrento peninsula. Then 6 plunge forward for the Naples lpain be- gan, climaxing a six-day battle that has become one of the fiercest of the Mediterranean struggle.
 The outskirts of Naples were within range of American Long Tom guns, already hot from the blistering fire that preceded the break-through onto the plain.
 Naples Wrecked
 It appeared possible the Germans were ready to abandon Naples after having wrecked 1t and its huge port facilities, and to cut out for a new defense lines to prevent being caught in a trap. Their casualties already were high.
 The British Eighth Army to the east-flrmly established in Foggia from which Naples could be ham, mered by air-continued to move up the Italian peninsula.
 The Germans had glIdled Naples with powerful defenses that Lieut., Gen. Mark w. Clarks men had to take apart piece by piece before the final thrust of their irresistible move.
 Average gains were reported to have been six miles yesterday, while at least six towns and a score of villages fell. Naval guns assisted in the final action.
 Red armies in Russia turned a 4oo-mi,e stretch of the Dnieper into a gigantic battle line to sweep the Germans from their final grip on the east bank of the vital river.
 Massed Armament
 Massed guns and planes battering the retreating enemy and the Rus sians prepared to spring forward for west bank footholds to keep the Germans in flight toward Poland.
 A British report said the Russians were fighting in the streets of Go- mel as they moved into White Rus sia at a dozen points. Latest Mos- COW reports put the Russians SS miles beyond Smolensk.
 More than 1000 towns and vil- lages had been engulfed in the last 24 hours in the east Dnieper bank cleanup by the Soviet forces.
 Meanwhile, Jugoslavian exile sources in London reported heavy fighting between the Germans and patriotic troops around Split, in1- portant seaport on the Adriatic.
 The battles centered at Sinj, IS miles to the east, and Drnis, 25 miles to the north. There also was violent street fighting reported at Susak, a suburb of Plume on the northern end of the Adriatic.
 General BrOzOvich
 It was indicated that the forces involved were those under General Tito Brozovich.
 Tn the Pacific, General Douglas MacArthur's headquarters reported that Allied bombers destroyed 58 and probably 61 enemy planes in a surprise daylight raid on the big Japanese base at Wewak, New Guinea.
 The enemy's New Guinea strong hold virtually was knocked out of action at a cost of three Allied bombers. Seven enemy ships, part of a supply convoy that had just ar- rived at Wewak, were sunk or left burning and sinking.
 Bitter fighting continued around Finschhafen, $50 miles southwest of Wewak, where Australian riflemen and artillery were piling up heavy casualties among the cornered Jap anese garrison. The Australian ground forces were reported closing in slowly on the northern and vest ern approaches to the seaport.
 Pound Japs
 American bombers again pounded Japanese positions on Kolomban- gara Island in the Central Solo mons, while 8 small force of the Nays new Grumman hellcat fight CTS, outnumbered four to one, broke @E|5SN@E