Current Events September 11, 1943

THIS WAS REPORTED TODAY SEPTEMBER 11, 1943

            The North Adams Transcript
                                                         MASSACHUSETTS
                              SATURDAY AFTERNOON, SEPTEMBER 1 1, 1943

Americans Hold Port of Salerno;
            Bulk of Italian Fleet at Malta

Battleships Included Among Naval
Units Arriving Safely to Surrender
at British Base in Mediterranean as
U.S.Troops Throw Back German
Armored Attacks After Establishing
Bridgeheads in Landing South
of Nap 1 es — Chaos R e p o r t e d
Throughout Peninsula With Italians
Fighting Nazis in North.
ALLIED PLANES ACTIVE


German Retreat
Resembles Rout
Red Army Delivers Sledge Hammer;
Blows All Along 400 Mile Battle-
Front Menacing Foe's Entire De-|
fenses in Ukraine. |
VAST STORES SEIZEDLondon, Sept. 11 (AP)-
The German high command in a broadcast communique today said Hie Red army had made a large-scale landing; attempt in the Novorossisk area where the Germans still hold a small bridgehead In Ihc Causasus and the flightlng still was going on as German forces attempted to wipe out the landing parties.

Allies Pledged
To Oust Nazis
Pres. Roosevelt and Prime Minister
Churchill Direct Promise in Joint
Statement to Premier Badoglio,;
, Ignoring Italian.King.