Current Events September 14, 1943;

THIS WAS REPORTED TODAY SEPTEMBER 14, 1943:

Tank-led troops of the Fifth Army pushed back stubborn German lines in "bitter fighting" near Salerno
yesterday as the Eighth Army, on the Calabrian peninsula, and British troops, at Taranto, poised for thrusts northward.

Adolf Hitler's dramatic announcement that Mussolini had been "liberated" in a daring raid by German parachutists and SS troops appeared last night to have plunged some parts of northern Italy, already in chaos, into a state next to civil war

U.S. and Australian troops have captured Salamaua airfield on New Guinea and are pursuing the retreating Japanese, Gen. Douglas MacArthur's communique announced today. On the Lae sector, a Japanese counter-attack has been repulsed. Capture of the airdrome gives the Allies. almost complete control of all approaches to the isthmus which connects Salamaua peninsula with the mainland. In the northern sector, however. Japanese resistance still continues


          THE STARS AND STRIPES
         Daily Newspaper of U.S. Armed Forces in the European Theater of Operations
                   New York, N.Y.—London, England Tuesday, Sept. 14, 1943

             5th Army Edges Forward

Nazis Battle
Desperately
ToHaltPush
8th Army Poised for Stab
North;' Germans in
Toe Facing Trap
Tank-led troops of the Fifth Army pushed back stubborn German lines in "bitter fighting" near Salerno
yesterday as the Eighth Army, on the Calabrian peninsula, and British troops, at Taranto, poised for thrusts northward.
According to unofficial reports from Allied headquarters German troops, facing the possibility of being
trapped between the Eighth Army and the Allied armies 100 miles north, have begun to evacuate the southern area by air. A number of  B52s—air transports used in the attempted withdrawal of Tunisia—have been shot down in the lower boot area.
Algiers radio said the Fifth Army, which landed five days ago under Lt. Gen. Mark W.' Clark, was meeting stiffer resistance than had been encountered either in North Africa or in Sicily, but that after hurling back German counter-attacks they had enlarged their bridgeheads. The Allies also have landed tanks, and, Algiers
radio said, "very bitter fighting" is in progress.
                                                       Where Will Allies Land Next

Raiders Freed
Duce. Nazis Say
Already Chaotic Italy Left
In State Akin to Civil
War by Report
Adolf Hitler's dramatic announcement that Mussolini had been "liberated" in a daring raid by German parachutists and SS troops appeared last night to have plunged some parts of northern Italy, already in chaos, into a state next to civil war.
Late Sunday night, German broadcasts "were interrupted by the reading of a special communique announcing that II
Duce had been snatched from imprisonment, thus frustrating his delivery into Allied hands. Where the former Italian premier had been confined and in what circumstances were not disclosed in the announcement,
nor was any hint given as to his present whereabouts. However, that Allied sources lent credence to the Berlin claim was found in an Algiers broadcast which said it was reported that Mussolini was en route to Hitler's headquarters.
Allies Capture
Salamaua Field
American Troops Repulse
Jap Counter-Attack
In Lae Sector
ALLIED HQ. Southwest Pacific. Sept. 13—
U.S. and Australian troops have captured Salamaua airfield on New Guinea and are pursuing the retreating Japanese, Gen. Douglas MacArthur's communique announced today. On the Lae sector, a Japanese counter-attack has been repulsed. Capture of the airdrome gives the Allies. almost complete control of all approaches to the isthmus which connects Salamaua peninsula with the mainland. In the northern sector, however. Japanese resistance still continues.
Allied forces occupied the airfield after one of the greatest victories they have won in the southwest 1'acific. Following an artillery bombardment of strong Japanese positions. Allied infantry stormed the Jap lines. The Japanese retreated, leaving hundreds of dead and masses of equipment behind.
Americans and Australians are closing in on Lae in a pincer movement from the northwest and northeast. On the \vest, the main enemy outposts have been reached. Forces advancing from the northeast have met resistance from Japanese patrols.