Current Events October 30, 1943;

THIS WAS REPORTED TODAY OCTOBER 30, 1943:

Britlsh troops of the f i f t h army storming across the Regia canal in a three-mile plunge have occupied Ihe seaside town uf Mondragonc to ram so.ua rely against lolly Mount Massico, western anchor of the new German line in Italy, It was announced today\

 Triumphant Russian forces surging westward from Melitopol last night had turned an already great Soviet
victory into a great German rout, had split the retreating Nazi army in two and had reached a point only 40 miles from the last enemy escape railway from the Crimea.

President Roosevelt described the Moscow tripartite conference today as a tremendous success, and said it had resulted in agreements which would make for unanimity in the prosecution of the war and also in the later transition period.
The chief executive told his press conference the documents embracing the agreements would be signed shortly and then would be made public. He said the conference had strengthened a view he had always held, that Russia would cooperate with other nations to maintain peace after the war.

U.S. warships threw their weight into the battle of Italy yesterday as the Fifth Army drove against the
Germans' Massico ridge line and the Eighth Army, by a six-mile thrust through the craggy country .of the
central Appenines, threatened to outflank the Nazi base of Isernia.

      Northwest Arkansas Times
                     FAYETTEVILLE, ARKANSAS, SATURDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 30, 1943

            Allies Pushing Forward in Italy

British Troops
Cross Regia
Canal Today
New Nazi Line In
Italy Threatened
By Heavy Attack
Allied Headquarters, Algiers, Oct. 30-(AP)-
Britlsh troops of the f i f t h army storming across the Regia canal in a three-mile plunge have occupied Ihe seaside town uf Mondragonc to ram so.ua rely against lolly Mount Massico, western anchor of the new German line in Italy, It was announced today.
Farther Inland, American forces developed a flanking threat agninst Mount Massico, capturing PietravaJrano which dominates both the upper VoSturno river valley and the main Capua-Rome highway. Simultaneously, the British eighth army to the east forged ahead lo take Montemltro, on the lower bank ot the Trlgno river
14 miles Inland from their bridgehead In the San Salvo area, where the heaviest fighting on the Italian front still raged. Some 15 towns in oil felt to the allied advance, hindered by heavy rains and mud in all sectors. Mule transport had to be substituted for motor vehicles In some mountainous localities.
The British sprang from trenches and foxholes along the southern banks of the Regia canal to take Mondragone. They had been held to that line, paralleling the lower Volturno river, for more than'a week by heavy enemy sprang 'from the lower slopes of Maassico ridge.
Mondragone was deserted, and an allied otfier said the town, had become valueless to the Germans, who would make their realty' important stands from the ridge itself. Several bridgeheads forced across the canal all along the .line remained under fire of long-range German guns,


                STARS AND STRIPES
         Daily Newspaper of U.S. Armed Forces in the European Theater of Operations
                             New York, N.Y.—London, England                 Saturday, Oct. 30,1943

Nazi Melitopol Army Split in Half
As Retreat Becomes Great Rout;
Reds 40 Mi. From Crimean R.R.
Wehrmacht's Losses
In Huge Collapse
Are Enormous
 Triumphant Russian forces surging westward from Melitopol last night had turned an already great Soviet
victory into a great German rout, had split the retreating Nazi army in two and had reached a point only 40 miles from the last enemy escape railway from the Crimea.
Across the Nogaisk steppe west of Melitopol stretched the debris of a broken army. Fleeing headlong before the Red advance, the Germans were leaving enough behind to set up an entire new army. Loaded with war material, 450 freight cars were deserted intact at the Prishiv and Akimovka railway stations along the Crimean railway.
Capturing over 40 settlements in their swift motorized thrust west, the Russians were driving toward the Perekop-Kherson rail line, and another 40 miles would bring them to it, severing Berlin's last hope of getting thousands of German troops out of the Crimea.
The Russian plan seemed to be to extend the wedge driven into the fleeing Nazi force and then turn the flanks of the spearhead north and south, destroying each half of the enemy army at will. Last night it appeared certain of success.
                                                           Must Fight Way Out
Already the smashing drive through Melitopol had killed any German hopes of extricating their forces retreating from Dniepropetrovsk southward across the lower Dnieper. These must continue to fight their way out of the Dnieper Bend through the ever-narrowing corridor between Krivoi Rog and Nikopol, along
the lower Dnieper, thus throwing an enormous strain on Nazi communications there.

Moscow Talks
A Tremendous
Success—FDR
Pacts Already Agreed On,
He Says, Will Help Win
Both War and Peace
WASHINGTON, Oct. 29—
President Roosevelt described the Moscow tripartite conference today as a tremendous success, and said it had resulted in agreements which would make for unanimity in the prosecution of the war and also in the later transition period.
The chief executive told his press conference the documents embracing the agreements would be signed shortly and then would be made public. He said the conference had strengthened a view he had always held, that Russia would cooperate with other nations to maintain peace after the war.
Asked whether it would bring closer a meeting between himself, Prime Minister Churchill and Marshal Stalin, the President said he did not know, but reiterated that he and Mr. Churchill were anxious for such a conference.
                                                               Message from Churchill
MOSCOW, Oct. 29—
While final drafts of the agreements between the foreign ministers of Britain, the U.S. and Russia were being drawn up, it became known today that Marshal Stalin has received from Prime Minister /Winston Churchill
a full statement on the British militaryposition.
The information, promised Stalin by Mr. Churchill when they met last year, was handed the marshal last night by Anthony Eden when he saw Stalin for the second time during the conference.
Experts worked night and day to complete final drafts of the agreements. It was reliably reported that only the ends remained to be 'trimmed, and the next few days should see the meeting's close.
Secretary of State Cordell Hull \v;:s reported by a U.S. spokesman to be standing up splendidly to the long strain of the daily discussions, in spite of his 72 years. Hull continued to refuse all social invitations, to conserve his strength.
Navy Shells
Italy as 8th
Pinch Nazis
Six-Mae Thrust in Center
Endangers Isernia and
Enemy's Massico Line
U.S. warships threw their weight into the battle of Italy yesterday as the Fifth Army drove against the
Germans' Massico ridge line and the Eighth Army, by a six-mile thrust through the craggy country .of the
central Appenines, threatened to outflank the Nazi base of Isernia.
The Navy struck behind the German line on the west coast, hurling shells ashore in the Minturnp area in the
Gulf of Gaeta, some 12 miles north of Capua. The bombardment was carriedout Wednesday night but revealed only yesterday. A U.S. cruiser and destroyers made up the attacking force.
The Eighth Army's drive in the central sector, menacing Isernia and threatening to roll up from the east all the carefully prepared enemy positions on the Massico line, carried the British across the hills lying between the headwaters of the Biferno and Trigno rivers.
The thrust carried Montgomery's forces-at least six miles north of Torella, the hill town whose capture was announced Thursday, and captured three small villages.
                                                   Take Massico Ridge Town
Further west, the Fifth Army's Americans advanced three miles in the Sparanise area to capture the railway town of Teano, lying below the forward hill positions of the Massico ridge, while other U.S. troops in the Raviscamna region to the east consolidated gains on important heights dominating northbound roads.
Along the Adriatic sector, one British column captured Montefalcone, two miles south of the Trigno. river and 16 miles from the sea, while another pushed north along the coast road toward Vasto, slugging ahead against massed German artillery two miles north of the Trigno river.