Current Events September 29, 1943;

THIS WAS REPORTED TODAY SEPTEMBER 29, 1943:

Pushing forward in bitter hand-to-hand fighting, American Fifth Army troops have captured the important mountain town of Nocera and swept onto the plain before blazing Naples, Allied headquarters announced today.

The once beautiful port of Naples is now a ravaged city of horrors . Desperate German troops— ruling the tortured city by terrorism— are spreading destruction, machine-gunning women and children and forcing soldiers and civilians alike into slave labor battalions with death ..for those who refuse.

This is the story brought from Naples by terrified refugees who escaped in fishing boats, risking drowning at sea rather than face the fury of their one-time Allies

Jefferson City Post
JEFFERSON CITY, MISSOURI WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 29,1943

Yanks Break Nazi
Mountain Defense
In Drive on Naples
British Moving
Northward Up
Italian Peninsula
Two Sides of
Hitler's Fortress
Heavily Attacked
By the Associated Press)
Pushing forward in bitter hand-to-hand fighting, American Fifth Army troops have captured the important mountain town of Nocera and swept onto the plain before blazing Naples, Allied headquarters announced today.
The final attack against the Germans' strong mountain positions began at dawn yesterday, and by noon Nocera was in" Allied hands. Today the pursuit of the Nazis was reported to have reached a point only 13 miles down the coast from Naples.

Italy May Get
The Status of
Co-Belligerant
Concessions to Be
Measured By Aid
She Delivers

Once Beautiful
Naples Is How
City of Horror
WITH THE U. S. NAVY IN
THE GULF OF SALERNO, Sept. 26— (Delayed) —(AP) —
The once beautiful port of Naples is now a ravaged city of horrors . Desperate German troops— ruling the tortured city by terrorism— are spreading destruction, machine-gunning women and children and forcing soldiers and civilians alike into slave labor battalions with death ..for those who refuse.
This is the story brought from Naples by terrified refugees who escaped in fishing boats, risking drowning at sea rather than face the fury of their one-time Allies.
Many of the refugees were not so" lucky. The Germans tossed hand grenades into their boats as they attempted to slip away from the harbor or machine-gunned the frail craft.
• The apparent aim of the Germans, infuriated by the Italian Armistice with the United Nations on the eve of
invasion, is to wreak vengeance on the Italian people and to destroy Naples as much as possible so that nothing of value remains when Allied troops take the city."
The port is rapidly becoming a shambles,- refugees say, and harbor facilities are being blasted and burned day and night. Ships are being sunk in an effort to block the harbor entrances and the waters are mined to delay the navy's making use of the harbor as a supply base for invasion armies battling to take the city