Mediterranean Algiers Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - October 2, 1943, Algiers, Algiers                                Stripes vol. I no. 43, saturday october 2, 1943 for . Armed forces two francs5th army takes Naples Kiev fall near German dreams of Moscow gone new russian generals pile up impressive string of victories the italian front which i % the soviet offensive p opened in july roared to Power in a August and scored its greatest victories in september continued to hurtle Forward As october came around. The Central and Southern fronts Are ablaze with fires started a by the routed germans from Smo. I Cathi Lens to Dnepropetrovsk the heaviest russian blows were being directed at Kiev Dnepropetrovsk and Gomel All key nazi strongholds on the Long Eastern front but numerous smaller strategic Points were also under concentrated soviet fire. At Kiev and Dnepropetrovsk fighting has reached the fiercest kind of Street to Street hand to hand encounters. The soviets thursday night stormed truth nov Island a bulwark in the Dnieper River before Kiev. In spite of the Large German reinforcements rushed to the capital of the Ukraine the most important Wehr Macht base in Russia now that Smolensk has fallen it was believed that Kiev could withstand the soviet tidal wave for Only a few More Days. Much the same situation existed at Dnepropetrovsk where red army units were swarming across two Railroad Bridges into the City a streets. North of Kiev Halfway up to Smolensk Gomel was wavering precariously As the German Anchor of the White russian defense line. Soviet troops were Only nine Miles from the City and had crossed the River which constituted Gomel a main protective Barrier. The Northern Anchor of the White russian line was also in imminent peril As the soviets struck within 20 Miles of Vitebsk which lies 75 Miles Northwest of . According to a swedish report Adolf Hitler has ordered his generals to hold the Dnieper River line at All costs. So far the Cost has been tremendous but the wehrmacht has Given no indication that it could hold this line any better than it held the desna River line at Bryansk or the donets River line at Stalin. Any German Hopes that the Swastika might some Day Fly Over Moscow were utterly dissipated last saturday night when soviet troops hammered their Way through the continued on Page 3 John Lewis sighs but Bot in quotes by to sgt. John Willig stars and stripes staff writer Washington John l. Lewis the soldiers feel that Way about americas greatest labor Leader the miners. He believes such an to thousands of the nations Coal attitude reflects ignorance of min Myers but the current no. I Boers problems and hazards and great Triumph scored month after invasion Allied Force Headquarters oct. I _ the allies entered Naples today. One month after the first Allied Soldier set foot on the italian Mainland Italy s third largest City and largest port fell to it. Gen. Mark w. Clark s 5th army. Naples fall was the biggest Triumph of the entire Mediterranean Campaign. The end came after several weeks of the Grimm est fighting in the toughest terrain yet encountered by Allied Foggia capture by land action spurs air drive Geyman on the Home front Isnit talking at the moment. At least he Isnit saying anything which can be enclosed in quotation Marks for the stars and stripes or any other newspaper. But you can to spend an hour or even 15 minutes talking with or. Lewis without forming some definite opinions about one of the most important men in America today whether you consider him the Champion of labor s rights or the most dangerous Saboteur of americans War Effort. John l. Lewis knows that he is probably the most hated Man in the country among american soldiers overseas and especially in the North african  it the quotation Marks Are our own that was the proposition As we put it to him he realizes too that 90 percent of the troops at the Battlefront would like nothing More than to see him Quot jailed hanged or shot at Sunrise and his miners inducted into the  or. Lewis is sorry failure to understand the hardships facing miners living on prewar wages in the rising War prices Economy. As for his own reaction to the soldiers dislike he showed no particular worry or concerti rather he seemed to take it As a matter of course with the unruffled air of the Martyr facing the Lions and unbelievers in some roman Amphitheater. A a most men overseas agree that miners Are underpaid and deserve a break or. Lewis but Why strike the fighting men can to strike for any reason. Can to you arbitrate or even wait until the wars end to make your demands a the famous Bushy eyebrows came Down at that question and he looked pained. There Are Many angles that in fairness to the continued on Page it Roosevelt hits Keyhole press japs fall Back Yard by Yard Allied South Pacific Headquarters. Oct. I a Allied ground troops yesterday ended a week of bitter Yard by Yard struggle for the Jap new Guinea base of Finsch Haven Only 700 Yards from their goal. A communique from general Douglas Macarthur Headquarters said three prongs of Allied columns from North West and South were inexorably converging on the Jap Garrison which was already under Allied artillery fire. The japs yesterday launched three night attacks trying hard to hold up the inevitable fall of the  ail were beaten off. Some observers believe that Allied air of seaborne blows at either weak or Padang North of Finsch Haven May come before Finsch Haven itself Falls. They Point out that a few weeks ago when Salamata. To the South was hemmed in As Finsch Haven is now Al continued on Page 8> Washington a president Roosevelt shirt sleeved and Stern faced at his press conference this week delivered a stinging lecture on the evils of a a Keyhole journalism in giving official recognition for the first time to rumours of a shakeup in the army a High command. The rumours had reported that general George c. Marshall chief of staff would be transferred to another Post. At the same time however the president declared that he had no this round s on the Reveno oers Atlanta the word got around that the Reveno oers were pouring contraband Moonshine into the Gutter. Before you could say Carrie nation a crowd had assembled armed with Coffee cups glasses dippers pots and pans and began salvaging what they could state Revenue agents had found the liquor in a closet of a Home near Oakland cemetery. Allied Force Headquarters. Sept. 30�?while bombers of the Northwest african air forces were weather bound at their bases the Early part of this week the greatest potential air news of the italian Campaign was being made by a Mobile Force of the 8�.h army which sliced Inland from the Adriatic to capture the great fog Gia system of Aird Romes. The capture of the main Ai drome and its 12 satellite Fields regarded by airmen As one of the great prizes of the Mediterranean War brought immediate acclaim from Allied military observers who pointed out that Southern and Eastern Germany As Well As the Balkans would now be within easy Range of our bombers. President Roosevelt told a press conference in Washington that a very Large part of Germany had been sleeping safely beyond bombing Range but that with the capture of Foggia this was no longer True. Tile president said he believed the German general staff regarded Foggia As one of Europe a most strategic Sites. Secretary of War Stimson described Foggia As being Quot of great strategic advantage to the  flying South to North against Germany our bombers could escape much of Europe s bad Winter weather. A radius of 600 Miles from Foggia a medium bomber Range would reach Marseilles in Southern France would cover All of Italy the lower one third of Germany and All the Balkans except a part of Rumania. Berlin is approximately a 1,400 continued on poet 8> troops in this theater of War. A just How much is left of Naples has not yet been disclosed. For the past several Days however air photo reconnaissance revealed that the City was being systematically destroyed that shins were being scuttled and that docks amp and waterfront installations had been completely blasted. But military observers have pointed out that no port can be totally destroyed and that Naples should be Able to accommodate incoming Allied shipping within a very Short time. As a Case example they jointed to the terrifically blasted port of Tripoli which was restored to use within a few weeks after its capture last january. Fate sealed the fall of Naples seemed imminent As Early As yesterday when a Strong armoured Force of the 5th army punched through Cornfields and Orchards past the coast town of Torre Annunziata important Iron and steel Center Only la Miles from the heart of the City. That plus the american push into avel 4 a Oil link it Vii i i licit lie Usu us announcement to make concerning . Oct. I German tank fire three War writers killed by nazi fire Allied Force head Quad Gingell of the Exchange Telegraph Washington a in e r i c a n casualties in the North african theater of War including Italy and Sicily were slightly fewer than 12,000 killed wounded and missing Between july to and sept 15, Secretary of War Stimson told a press conference. Or. Stimson said american casual ies at Salerno had been less than feared totalling 3,500 in to sept. 15. British authorities announced recently that 5.211 British soldiers were killed wounded or missing in the Salerno area As of sept 20. Such a Transfer and that the a a if and when of such an announcement would come at a time of his own choosing. In discussing the Marshall affair the president loosed blistering criticism at the Mccormick Patter son press the Chicago Tribune the new York daily news the Washington times Herald and others who he said had promoted the rumours of general Marshall a being a a kicked upstairs at the instigation of a a powerful interests and which attacked the new Deal As a a about to seize control of the War department for political  the subject of general Marshall was brought up after the president finished a few announcements continued on Page 2 tuesday killed three distinguished War correspondents two British and one australian on the Naples Agency received slight wounds the correspondents together with Seymour Korman. Chicago daily Tribune and Mutual Broad front in the greatest single loss system a sgt. David end re Iii or. Golding. Stare and stripes Reiman suffered by the Allied press since the outbreak of the War. A fourth British correspondent was slightly wounded while a group of american reporters narrowly escaped death. Those killed were Alexander b. Austin of the London daily Herald distinguished himself Morin associated press Herbert Matthews new York times and Farnsworth f o w i a Columbia broadcasting system were watching British artillery mortars Pound a group of enemy tanks at a Crossroads in a Small town which the allies had captured Only a Short time before. A Down the Road i could see Mark who distinguished himself by coverage of the Dieppe commando raid in August 1942 William his 600 Yards away a Korman Munday representing the Sydney wrote Iii his dispatch to the Australia morning Herald and Tribune. A a Holf a Tim Bli the London news chronicle one of the world s most widely travelled War correspondents and Stewart a half dozen times our shells scored bulls eyes on two of these tanks the attack being skilfully directed from a recon car of Vav a Voja you iwo Anu Pic w a1 i a t Sale of Reuters who was on his polite me and just out of the Angle first assignment abroad. Basil continued on Page 8 Lino important rail and Road Junction town 30 Miles directly East of Naples made any German stand in the Naples area impossible. The Fate of Naples was actually sealed some time ago when 5th army troops firmly secured their beachhead and swept the germans off the High ground at the same time that the British 8th army rushed up to take Foggia on Italy a East coast. River line the next logical defensive line for Field marshal Albert Kessel rings nazi divisions seems to be the nigh ground near the vol Turno River near the town of Capua about 18 Miles Northeast of Naples. Closely coupled with the spectacular Allied Advance was the announcement this week of a meeting of the Allied commander in chief Gen. Dwight d. Eisenhower with the italian Premier marshal Pietro Sadoglio to discuss the most effective Means of using Italy a armed and naval strength against their common enemy the germans. This week ended on the most optimistic note since the initial 5th army invasion of the Salerno beaches 22 Days ago. The British and americans had come a Long Way from those first touch and go Days when strongly reinforced German divisions were throwing continued on Page 8j