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Allied troops when they occupy it,"
Allied headquarters said.
In the inland sweep British and
Americans swung the right of their
line forward toward the Adriatic,
with Salerno serving somewhat as
hinge, and Strengthened out several
deep mountain bulges.
They advanced 10 miles northwest
of Potenza, Is miles north of SaIa
Consilina and 10 miles west of Mot
tola, which is north of Taranto, cap
turing the towns of Acerno, Avigliano
and Ginosa.
Slightly North Of Salerno.
Acerno Is 18 miles east and slightly
north of Salerno and 6 miles north
OF Campagna, reported captured
yesterday.
Aviglisno is so miles east of Sa-
lerno and about miles northwe.,
OF Potenza, also reported captured
yesterday.
Ginosa is Is miles northwest OF
laramie and IA miles inland from
the Gulf of laramie.
(Armed forces also have taken
Auletta, on the highway between
Salerno and Potenza, the British
Broadcasting Corp. said in dis
patch from Allied headquarters.
(The German communique to-
day admitted "a dent made by
the enemy in our positions near
Contursi," but claimed the break
was cleaned up in counterat-
tacks. "a The enemy has brought
up fresh forces In the eastern
4 sector .of the front without, how
| ever, so far commencing an at
tack"
! (Contursi is between Acerno
and AVigliano and apparently :;
somewhat to the rear Of. the new );
Allied line. 500 -oss
The BIC in a broadcast re-
corded by the NBC said the
| American 5th Army had captured
Contursi.
North and northeast of Salerno,
however, the Germans were putting
up stiff and stubborn battle on
the direct, shoreline route to Naples
and little advance was made
Regroup for Next Blows.
with the first phase of the battle
OF Italy, which took place at Sa-
lerno, over both our forces and the
Germans are in the same positions
as boxers sitting in the corner pre-
pairing for the next round" an Allied
military spokesman said
He explained that both sides were
regrouping for the next blow.
A message from 1t. Gen. Mark
W. Clark's headquarters said
ground and air cooperation has
been the best of the campaign"
The Germans were using a small
number of tanks in their retreat up
the Italian boot, but the military
spokesman said the Allied forces
were having little difficulty in deal
ing with them.
In some sectors the Germans laid
considerable minefields, but these
were not being used at all near the
scale used in Tunisia or Sicily.
Although the spokesman identi-
fed the Americans in Corsica as
Rangers, he said they were only a
very small part of the forces in>
yolved.
Predicts Fall in 10 or Is Days.
Gen. Henri Giraud, French COM
mander in chief. just returned by
air from two-day trip to Corsica,
predicted that all Germans would be
ousted or killed on the island in
from 10 to Is days"
Gen. Rene Chambe Giraud spokes-
| tv, lot tiyHr lafn Af flNn
French commanders visit to the
island, said the attack had been
prepared for six months and that
10000 CorsicanS had been armed
with tommyguns, which had been
dropped by parachute or taken in
by submarine since last February.
| Eighty thousand Italians on the
island were taking orders from the
French. he added, but only a hand
full were fighting the Germans.
I'VE have put them to work re-
building roads and bridges that were
blown up, and they must leave Cor
sica as soon as transportation can
be arranged" Gen. Chambe de-
clared at a press conference. |
The Italians are not prisoners, he
said, but under strict control while
disposition of their arms awaited
the orders of Gen. Dwight D. Eisen-
hover.
The vital roads along which Ger
man troops have been moving in the
vicinity of Naples were served,
enemy shipping in the Adriatic Sea
was blasted and enemy motor con-
voys were bombed and strafed yes
terday in widespread raids by the
Northwest African Air Force.
American P-4O Warhawks, branch
ing out into a new field of opera
tions, attacked enemy shipping in
the Gulf of Manfredonia, 60 miles
northwest of Bari on Italys Adriatic
coast, and scored direct hits on the
stern of 2,000-ton ship. Other
bombs hit quays and the Warhawks
then strafed stores of enemy war
material piled on the docks.
American B-26 Marauders set the
pace for the methodical destruction
of supply routes on which German
troops massed in the Naples area