Mediterranean Algiers Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - October 4, 1943, Algiers, Algiers Reds breach Gateway to White Russia germans stiffen defences along Dnieper River germans will never Stop the 5th�?Clark l night on. Ort. 3�?racing against tin weather for domination of Hie Central sector of the russian front soviet troops today were closing in on Gomel and taking Long strides toward the German bases of mogilev Orsha and Vitebsk. The High command communique announced. The communique omitted All mention of the Domei it or River lighting indicating perhaps that tile red army was taking advantage. Of the Lack of natural Barrier in tin Smolensk Gate Vitebsk and Orsha in White rus fat a to push toward the Baltic states while ukrainian communications Are repaired and forces massed for a big drive across the Dnieper. Berlin radio however mentioned fighting on the West Bank of the River and correspondents reported that one of the heaviest artillery duels Iii history was being waged Detroit. Mich. Oct. 3 it. Gen. Mark of. Clark commander of the 5th army in Italy writing to his wife said a the germans will never be Able to Stop the 5th army i talked to our wounded and All they want to do is to get bark into the general Clark Praise the nurses describing them As a a the Cost soldiers we i Lave. They work 24 hours a Day. Live in dust and dirt and never Casa swamps 5 the army spearhead Algiers. 9-0 enters Benevento Pener Fra pres left in ruins Wojtczak baffles Street walkers with one hitter allies take Finsch Haven Allied South Pacific Headquarters. Oct 3 Finsch Haven fell saturday morning to australian troops Rune Days after Between a seaborne Force swept ashore ten j30th consecutive Miles North of the Jap new rican league Competition the Gas Guinea base and began a struggle by a sgt. George Hakim stars and stripes staff writer Algiers had its own world Seri it it at St. Eugene stadium yesterday when the Casablanca Yankees Defeated Hie Algiers walkers to in the first of a three game series to determine the Soldier baseball cilia pions of North Africa. Paced by their Ace hurler. A Hun Kie w Otczak who pitched a sensational one lilt ter to Chalk up his win in North of ii Hoiu eing wage. A across tile last Barrier shielding no f its inner defences. The i Kiev and Dnepropetrovsk from the Retreat Are heading for the it a Lotfali t n it stir a pc l Kiev and Dnepropetrovsk russian armies. Soviet Shock troops which last week were reported to have forced their Way into the streets of both cities apparently have been forced Back by Strong German reinforcement. At any rate it was Clear that _ a through thick Jungles to rid the Island of one More vital Supply port. The Allied communique announcing the Victory said the 9th australian division stormed the last Jap resistance at Finsch Haven after a final dive bomber Pound aps their favorite new Guinea refugee the Hills. But aussie troops Are reported scaling almost perpendicular hillsides to get at the garrisons remnants with hand grenades. Finsch Haven is the third major Jap base in new Guinea to fall Blanca team pounded out nine runs and 14 hits to make a run enemy away of what started out to be a i stirring pitchers Battle Between Wojtczak and tile Street walkers number one Pitcher. Walter slog. The Yankees Drew first blood Iii the second inning which started City wrecked people crazed from hunger by John of Reilly sen York Herald Tribune War correspondent i Naples. Oct. I delayed wan on destruction and wholesale j human misery As horrible As anything Vince the beginning of tilt War were found tins morning a the Vanguard of the 5th Arni when it rolled into Naples on the heels of the retreating germans. Here was total War in its ugliest phase a City of almost a million inhabitants wrecked looted and starved its remaining Tropic wandering the streets in hysterical armed bands. I entered Naples in the Wake of the first British armoured patrols. Tamely enough we Ltd Pitcher Wojic h was hard to believe even when 7 it ill ilrl.,. I. ,. I i i i. 8th army Rolls ahead 30 Miles at one Point Allied Force head Quad i lits. Oct. 3�?a 5th army so a head crashed northward yesterday into d , vital communications Center 17 Miles North of Avelino while the 8th army 1 oiled to the West along their entire Lim against somewhat increased enemy resistance. The 8th arrays Advance at one Point totalled 30 Miles. No details were Given on the action at Benevento other than the statement in today s communique that our troops have entered Benevento and continue the wehrmacht has stiffened its into Allied hands within a month defences for the first time since Salamata fell on sept. 12, and Lac the Early stages of the Kharkov four Days later. Finsch Haven gives Battle in August. It was reported general Douglas Macarthur men in Stockholm that Adolf Hitler a valuable Advance base in North had made a dramatic visit to the Era new Guinea from which to Eastern front Headquarters of Field strike at the japs still entrenched marshal Fritz Erich von Mann at Padang and weak farther up Stein and had commanded his Gen the coast. These bases Are already Stalin distantly threatened by an Allied j Force moving northwards from autumn Point too Miles Inland from reals to discontinue their Grad the beginning of the. Rains has already had its effect on Finsch Haven. The russian Advance in Hie sector i from the Northern Solomons Between Oil Ary Vitebsk of j yesterday came indications that servers said. Massed tanks and in Jle japs May be evacuating Kold were taking full advantage Omba Ngara Island across narrow of the marshy terrain made More St Raits from Allied held new geor difficult by the Rains to defend Goa Island a communique reported Gomel which is Halfway Between that Allied naval surface units in Smolensk and Kiev. Nevertheless j night action Sank nine Jap barges the soviets have been pushing for and severely damaged five others Atli d a run in tar a i v f a i a at the rate of six to nine continued in Page 4 attempting to run an Allied blockade. Zak striking out. Catcher Walter Kozik Drew a base on balls and stole second when the second baseman was slow covering tile bag on the throw. He advanced to third on right fielder Lagik bar to s grounder to Short and scored on Nick Kowalchick a single to right. In their Hall of the second the Street walkers made their one hit of the game a ground Rule double by Allen Schmidt who hit one of Wojtczak a hard ones Over the right Field Fence. James Wilcox advanced Schmidt to third with a grounder to the second baseman. But the next Man up James Sullivan grounded out to the Pitcher. Continued from Page 3 we had reached the Central part that this was one of the worlds famous cities. An atmosphere of wholesale tragedy seemed to penetrate the place from the time we entered it. It was still and yet there were noises. They were not the Normal noises of a City but the yells of the armed mobs. There were women shouting in hoarse continued on Page 2 Mihailovich holds Back no hotdogs but lots of color by pm series by a sgt. Ralph g. Martin stars and stripes staff writer bum out he looks scream in a healthy hysterical sort of a Way but most of the time the a throw the tired he must have pulled guard last yelled the Bronx boy with the loud lungs standing up in the bleachers. Quot Pep up the Pitcher. Give him an Tebrin Pill a said another. There was no soda pop or hotdogs or peanuts and it was a Little More than 4.500 Miles to the Yankee stadium but this was the i world series. This was As important As anything that happened Back in the Ball Parks in new York or St. Louis. A a a it was definitely big time stuff. There was a radio Hookup play by play description. There was a Loudspeaker system a bar and movie cameras grinding All Over the place. The bar was doing standing room business Selling Brandy and Vino. �?�1 wish i had an empty Vino bottle a said an enraged onlooker a i d like to hit that fat dumb Umpire on the head. That Guy was out by a the Umpire was a big boy a staff sergeant and he looked Tough to tangle with. A a a it Wasny to exactly a Brooklyn dodger crowd. Every once in a while somebody would get up Aud i a crowd just sat and watched As if it were a movie. A a a �?�1 know some of your Yankee baseball expressions a said pvt. Ernest j Valentine Kent England. But i dont like to get up and yell because i done to want to be rude to the wrong team a he said. But Valentine likes baseball be Learned All about it from the Only american in his outfit pvt. James Scott Asheville. N. C. A a a having a difficult time throughout the whole game was Spectator Cpl. Julian Farber Defuniak Springs fla., who Wras trying to explain to his French girl Friend what the game was All about. A a the red numbers Are one Side and the Blue numbers Are on the other Side and three Guys have to hit the Ball and three Guys have to catch the Ball before the other Side change places a Farber explained. His girl whose knowledge of English is strictly limited was Vert polite about it All. A a a it definitely Wasny to a ladies there were few nurses fewer continued on Page 3j London oct. 3 a yugoslav forces led by Gen. Drama Mihailovich will not fight until the first Allied divisions land in Yugoslavia according to a statement reputedly made by the guerrilla Leader to a Swiss correspondent. If the statement is True the Chet Nicks commanded by Mihailovich have taken no part in the offensive staged by the yugoslav Peoples army of liberation and have Little sympathy for the partisan forces. Reportedly sent by messenger to the Zurich correspondent for a Gens Nyseter the statement by tile yugoslav general said it is True that hitherto my army has not fought and it will not fight until further orders. It would be unnecessary spilling of blood to Start fighting alone without real Allied help Materiel and munitions. I have already informed the British and americans that my army is ready and will begin fighting when the first Allied division lands in Yugoslavia. What we shall then accomplish will completely overshadow tile partisans performance. We Are ready and waiting Only for the signal promised by the in the meantime the a a partisans performance which general Mihailovich promised to a a overshadow was receiving its severest test in the fiume Susak sector according to Neutral sources. In Susak the croat suburb of the italian port of fiume fierce had to hand fighting was reported. The germans according to a special communique from yugoslav Headquarters Are now throwing reinforcements against Susak in a stubborn attempt to recapture the town. Partisan forces reportedly led by general Josip Tito Brozo continued on Page 4j germans on Corsica facing encirclement Allied Force Headquarters oct. 3�?goums and moroccan sharpshooters in Corsica captured Teg Hime Hill Strong-1 Point in the germans defense of Bastia yesterday after the enemy had sought to halt the encircling attack with a series of violent counter to hoists today a French communique said. French troops now hold the whole Ridge which from san Leonardo Hill to mount Rosse dominates Bastia they Are advancing in this area and also to the North where Light elements including american rangers Are pushing towards the extreme Northern tip of Cape Corse. The town of Vig Nale in the Golo River Valley was taken by the French. Benevento. A City of 20.000 population. Lies atop a 440-foot Hill in the Lork of the Sabato and galore Rivers. It is situate cd at the Junction of the via Appia. Ancient italian Highway from Rome to Brindisi and four other roads mid Lias been important to the germans both As a communications and Supply Center. Little or no Advance was reported to the North of Naples where the 5.h army employed its Ai mor against an enemy who was fighting stubbornly at every backward step. With the Field of Battle to the West narrowed off the coastal shelf the enemy is in a Good position to fight an effective rear guard action with a minimum of men and material. It is considered Likely however that the germans will not make a determined Large scale stand South of Rome because of the bottleneck in communications routes at the italian capital. The 8th army jumped ahead 30 Miles from Malfi to Frigenti at the Southern end of their front went 8 Miles West from Lucera in the Center and advanced their xxx Sitison on the Adriatic 17 Miles to a Point three Miles West of Lake Lesina. With the exception of the Benevento salient the Allied line across Italy can be regarded As a Boomerang in shape with one Side running 38 Miles from Naples East and slightly North to Trigon to and the other Side running North and East 70 Miles from Frigenti to the Adriatic. Knox returns to . Biter Battlefield visit Allied Force Headquarters. Oct. 3 a Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox has departed for the states after getting a first Row View of the fighting in Italy from the deck of a destroyer off Naples from a Navy it boat at Capri and As a guest of it. Gen. Mark w. Clark at his 5th army Headquarters on the Mainland. In Fine humor the weather tanned Secretary of the Navy told a press conference at Afaq about the trip in the bucking torn it Edo boat from the italian Mainland to Capri and Back again. He was on the destroyer off the coast of Naples before the germans had 1 evacuated the City and told of see i my a great smoke pall Over the Harbor and the numerous fires and military leaders had High Praise for the cooperation of land sea and air forces which made the landings at Salerno possible. He said the action there had a a brought the amphibious operation into its own As a tactic of major importance in this War. He tempered this optimistic report with a forecast concerning an Early end of the War. A a the serious part of the War is just beginning in Europe a he said. A a and to think it will be Over by Christmas is utterly unwarranted. The hardest most expensive part of the War both in men and material is ahead of besides visiting general Clark in Italy the Secretary of the explosions As the germans put to Navy talked with vice Admiral the Torch what they take Henry k. Hewitt commander of with them. A he . Naval forces in North speaking of the status of the Cost african Waters and it. Gen. Italian Fleet or. Knox said a the i George s. Patton jr., commanding general of the 7th army. He conferred several times with general Dwight d. Eisenhower Allied commander in chief and met Admiral sir Andrew Cunningham Allied continued on Page 4j allies will make definite use of it but just How or when has not yet1 been i or Knox on the basis of firsthand observations and numerous talks with top Allied naval and
