Mediterranean Algiers Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 21, 1943, Algiers, Algiers                                Vol. I no. 114, tuesday september 21, 1943 u. S. Army daily newspaper one franc yanks a Monty a boys soviets Cain Allied units Advance meet in mountains big victories in All italian fronts at key cities nazis pushed North yanks sweep 19 Miles Inland to Battipaglia by a sgt. Dave Golding stars and stripes staff writer 5th army in Are coming up fast and we should be with you in a few  a a we re always glad to see you Fellows of the 8tli army anytime any place and right Here a it. Beales replied. Then one of the mommies trotted out a hoi tie of wine and the juncture of the two armies was Cele with the Italy sept. 17 delayed a history repeated itself yesterday when Monty a boys of the British 8th army and american soldiers of the a the army established Contact at 1745 hours on a Road High in the mountains East of Vallo. Reports came in that the Brit russians capture Strong Points in three sectors Algiers shelters in sirocco again London sept. 20�?soviet forces that Oie Davit sirocco is blow us had driven up As tar As Capri. I ,.�?zd in. Manner. Any urday made ill air biggest Sains my again. The desert wind began and a two car . Patrol shoved i it Allan Farmer excited and Happy been Jurf War As so let the pumping its hot breathy Mollie off at 1345 hours. I was with the walked up with a bag of walnuts two car recon patrol led by 2nd which he Kave to the soldiers. No it. Robert Beales a. Okla. The drive German defences in three major direction of Algiers late saturday sectors and advanced to to 20 night raising the local tempera Allied Force Headquarters sept. 20�?Allied troop its o�?T98"in Algiers sunday Quot and at ted mor ground on All fronts a ales of Elk City u j i to a Miles marshal Joseph Stalin an Tine to 98 in Algiers b a it a a. Ii a or of the car was matter 1 bounced in three orders of the to too yesterday its raising Hob in Italy yesterday and the Island inn in Irvlen i�?~"8 but 11 a Lent matter Day the russian advances laced throughout most of Tunisia and of Sardinia was completely in Ute Cpl. Wilbert Smith of Irvington n. J. The patrol squad included we had covered More than 70 Smolensk and Kiev Cpl. James Rhodes of St. Clair Miles. Until now. All i had seen of pvt. Robert Reem. Of Detroit i Italy was the coastal Plain along danger of capture. Hard on the capture of Bryansk in imminent j Algeria though the boys in Oran hands of Friendly italians Are having it a bit cooler than the Algiers set no use asking the British and american troops took All the dominating Heights on pvt. Pavle Lazinski of new York our narrow fighting front Lins russians launched then final Weatherman How Long the sirocco the Sorrento Peninsula extending City pvt. Clarence Freeman of i was a Conn reside of Rich Vine j assault on Smolensk the most in i Enterprise w. Va., and pvt. Charles i Yards Kirka of Chicago. Trees. Apple Orchards and pertain German base in the soviet with a heavy concentration of is Likely to last he a not talking. 15 Milos West from Salerno. In the Cen ii a1 sector of the Bridgehead. F it was a country of medieval tanks and infantry. Red army after travelling Mort Lan _ towns perched on Steep Mountain uni s surprised tile nazis North hours Over dust clogged mountainous roads and bypassing demolished Bridges through the stretch of territory known As a no Many a  the patrol encountered two Seoul cars from the British 8th army just As we were rounding a curve. The first Man to climb out of the British car was sgt. Martin Butler of Naas Ireland who greeted us with a thick county Kildare Brogue Quot hello there we Are very glad to see  Quot we were looking Forward to seeing you chaps a the sergeant declared with a smile. A a our lads West of the great bastion and crashed into the important defensive towns of  and Yartsev. Both about 30 Miles from Smolensk. Marshal Stalin congratulating his troops declared that the soviets in four Days of fierce Fig lit continued on Page 2i All ies bomb Bougainville Gateway to the enemy a biggest base Scio River sector East of Salerno at r Iff South Pacific Russia. The heavy fortifications were bombed and strafed yester a dec arters. Sept. 20 Allied of Smolensk  considered by Day by a-36 invaders which de the 5th army punched past the town of Battipaglia 19 Miles Inland pushing the germans northward. Allied troops also now hold the High ground in the Vicinity of Mont Corvino six Miles West of the German held town of the same i name. Farther South our Large Allied Force head Quad bulge of land grew larger As it. Ters sept. 20�?an estimated 1,800 Gen. Mark w. Clark s troops bit German vehicles moving northward 1 deem r into the rearguard of the invaders hit nazi trucks ing have now forced open the from Contursi out of the italian slowly retreating germans slavs enter italian port yugoslav patriots have crossed into italian territory on the Adriatic and Are now lighting in the port of flume according to reports from Berne Switzerland. Staging spearhead attacks at key Points along the Dalmatian coast and a general offensive Inland where apparently few German troops were stationed the yugoslavs accordingly to Neutral sources have already drawn four More German divisions from other fronts to tighten the Axis grip on the Balkans. Flume which some unconfirmed reports said had already been taken by the yugoslavs has been italian territory since its capture by Gabriele do Annunzio the poet Soldier in 1918. Bordering on Yugoslavia fiume was part of the Austro hungarian Empire before world War i. It is connected by a Bridge with Susak in yugoslav territory which is also reportedly under control of the patriots. Directing these operations according to bbl were la partisan generals. A British officer a a major Jones a is on the staff of the yugoslav army of National liberation. Stated a dispatch from Quot Nova Bladyka a a German controlled yugoslav paper. Across the Adriatic the germans were also meeting trouble. A Swiss report said that fighting Between German and italian was continuing in the Milan and Turin regions. According to a German news Agency the germans have taken Over a number of prisoner of War Camps in Northern and Central Italy and have already transferred Many of the 25,000 prisoners to Germany. Most of the prisoners freed by the italians have been recaptured the germans claimed. Head Al _. Dive bombers yesterday attacked j the germans to be impregnable airfields on Bougainville Island j since they had been steadily Northwest of Guadalcanal and strengthened Over a two year period. Shot Down 14 enemy planes out of 60 while smashing numerous Supply and bivouac areas. Three sur later last night the soviet supreme commander announced the crumbling of the German defense prise night quacks on the same line around Kiev with the capture Fields by medium bombers left Large of Przluki Romny Lubnik Roma fires burning. Eight Allied planes Dan Mirgorod and Krasn Grad were lost i All important Railroad towns be the Bougainville Airstrip Are the tween Kharkov and Kiev. The in sole remaining advanced air shield tire area had been under soviet for Rabaul major Jap base in new attack for several weeks but the Britain Island 250 Miles to the simultaneous breakthrough repro Northwest since lae and a la need one of the greatest of rus notice for mechanical reasons the forms of the stars and stripes Algiers daily must close at 2100 hours end news received after that time cannot be handled until the following Day. Maua on new Guinea Island fell last week to Allied ground forces Sian victories and indicated that the nazis have been forced to fall the Allied aim appears to be to l ack Alon. The entire Kiev front neutralize Bougainville prior to a direct attack on Rabaul. Observers reported that Kiev now ass is troops which captured the new Rijo Guinea bases of lae and Sala Maua. He called the Victory a a splendid beyond  off new Britain Island yesterday Allied planes destroyed two japanese barges Laden with troops. Tai base. Only the Dnieper River remains As a natural Barrier and it is virtually certain that the Ger St Royed 109 trucks and badly dam aged 137 others. Also heavily bombed by the invaders was a vital four Road Junction five Miles West of Percopa Gano at the North end of the Sele River Valley Highway Over which most of the enemy convoys presumably were travelling. The fighter bombers completely unopposed by enemy aircraft attacked the winding Convoy lines at will then jumped ahead to bomb Bridges and bomb and strafe vehicles stalled by congestion at the four Road Junction. The a-36s used the same tactics three consecutive Days last week to destroy 378 enemy vehicles in the Salerno Battle area Raf and Roaf wellingtons last night extended the Days operations against enemy traffic by bombing a Road Bridge at Benevento 30 Miles North of Salerno another mans will now attempt to establish j important Junction directly in the a defense line on the West Bank path of the northward moving continued on Page 2 germans. Secret Mission to borne advanced Allied Headquarters sept. 17 delayed a before the italian surrender was announced before the 5th army invaded Italy two american off occupation ribbon of the last War cers made a secret Mission to Rome and under the very noses of the nazis carried out negotiations with the highest ranking italian officials. Full details of their Mission Are still under lock and key but even As it stands their Mission ranks As one of the most dramatic episodes of world War ii. The two americans who made the daring trip were Brig. Gun Maxwell d. Taylor an artillery commander and col. William t. Gardiner an sex governor of Maine. General Taylor and col. Gardiner left Palermo at Dawn on sept. 7 on a British it boat. Off tiny Ustica Island they put up a code Flag �?�1�?� and just before 0700 hours they sighted an italian Corvette with the same Flag. The water was rough As they transferred by Small boat to the Corvette. Hide insignia they were met on braid by a High ranking italian naval intelligence nicer. Who accompanied by sgt. Paul s. Green _ stars and stripes staff writer a Blouse and at times put on a Field j Spaghetti veal cutlets crepes suz jacket. Col. Gardiner wore his j Ette and fruits Blouse and sometimes put on a Gas j tile italians suggested the Amer Cape. He also wore an army of icons Wear civilian clothes thinking they would be safer. They suggested for general Taylor a brow n double breasted suit Blue shirt striped Necktie and suede shoes. The two officers however declined to Wear civvies. At first the italians took their time about conferring until general Taylor insisted on an immedi in the extreme South just above the italian Heel British troops of the 5th corps walked into Gioia meeting no opposition except mines and Booby traps. Gioia is Midway Between Taranto and Bari on the Adriatic. On the West coast British 8th army units continued to Advance in full Force towards the Salerno Bridgehead. As for the Complete evacuation of the germans from Sardinia a Reuters correspondent reported that italian soldiers and sardinian patriots fought Side by Side driving the nazis northward from the Cagliari Plain and its important Ai drome. As a result of constant Allied pressure on All fronts Field marshal Albert Kesselring commander in chief of nazi forces in Central Italy has been pulling his remaining troops out of the Southern sections of Italy. At the same time Kesselring has been reinforcing his units North of Salerno unofficial spokesmen said to prevent a Strong Allied breakthrough which would Cut off the bulk of his retreating German Force. Nazi rearguard action has been stiff. In the Northern end of the Salerno front the germans have been holding firm in each of four continued on Page 2 both were bareheaded. In a naval staff car they passed through the town. Several times the car slowed up to avoid truckloads of German soldiers other nazis strolled through the streets but not one took notice of them. See craters outside Rome the cards occupants transferred to another car it had ate conference. At the meeting i Mainland. British take Aegean Isles Istanbul sept. 20�?British troops Are reported to have landed on cast Lorizo and Samos two of the strategically important dodecanese islands in the Aegean sea stepping stones to the Balkan a Reuters  Hazard they were informed by an italian general that the germans had led the guess that cast Lorizo had opaque Glass windows and the of strengthened their forces around been in British hands since sept re .1,4 a a Fly cd Eliav Shah i the fall  9 when amp Smau Brush warship landed a Force which met no resistance from the single company of italian soldiers Iii the islands filers could see Little As they sped 1 Rome since the fall of Mussolini Over the App Ian Way into Rome and had Many troops in the Region they did see some craters evidence Well equipped. The italians com of Allied bombings. Planned that the germans had they entered the City without i Cut off their Gas Supply. They said j Garrison incident. Twice guards asked to see italian ammunition was Short and j cast Lorizo is the most Easterly their papers and twice the italian they could get no More because a. Y officer leaned Forward to show his Allied bombers had destroyed their largest factory. It was assert rank. The guards waved them on during the Early evening they Arad that the italians had equipment for Only a few hours fighting. Visit Sadoglio general Taylor then declared Rived at Rome s Palazzo Caprara Home of the ministry of War. They were met by High italian officers one of whom had attended the conference Between Italy general that in View of All this he must see Castellano and the Allied repro i marshal Pietro Sadoglio. About them to Rome about 1730 hours i sent Alves a Sicily. A re a a a Quot of Quot fro Ute Mafs Haes reswetme6 Lor knows Well. After being Stop died twice on the they pulled into a Small port South of the capital. The italians made sure that the americans insignia 5 a a a ans. Prisoners. Both men were in ods. Red wine and Champagne. Lunch general Taylor had removed his a the next Day consisted of soup the italians spared nothing in a Quot by. From a courtyard flanked by the Way of food for their guests Trees and a sizeable Garden they _ j. J Una a i  trip uni Isip a Menhorn nip with Marble stairways. The guests continued on Page 2 and most isolated of the dodecanese Island group. It is about four Miles from the turkish coast and about 90 Miles East of Rhodes the italian base now believed to be in German hands. The airfields of Rhodes Are too Miles from Crete and 275 Miles from Athens. The importance of the dodecanese to the allies lies in their strategic position dominating the Eastern Entrance to the Aegean sea Between Greece and Turkey their Possession would be an important step towards the liberation of Crete and Greece observers declared