Current Events September 16, 1943;

THIS WAS REPORTED TODAY SEPTEMBER 16, 1943:

The Anglo-American Fifth Army, supported by the greatest weight of Allied Air Force yet seen in the Mediterranean theater and by units of the Allied navy, battled desperately yesterday to enlarge their 24-mile Salerno bridgehead against determined German counter-attacks

Benito Mussolini, rescued by the Germans, proclaimed himself dictator of Italy again yesterday, and declared, in a series of orders broadcast by the so-called "Fascist Radio," that the Fascist regime in Italy had been reconstituted. His whereabouts was still kept secret by the Germans.

Britain's great Ninth Army, which the Germans declare has been designated for a drive into the Balkans, was reported on the move Wednesday from its Middle East bases facing the island pathway i nto Greece.
Unconfirmed reports of the embarkation of Gen. Sir Henry Maitland Wilson's army, in training for two years for just such a day, came from Stockholm via Ankara.


         THE STARS AND STRIPES
            Daily Newspaper of U.S. Armed in the European Theater of Operations
                    New York, N.Y.—London, England Thursday, Sept. 16, 1943

Tide Turns For Allies at Salerno

Giant Sea-Air Blows
Blunt Fierce Assault
On U.S. Bridgehead
Greatest Aerial Onslaught of Mediterranean
War Unleashed to Save Bridgehead;
Counter-Attacks Are Repelled
The Anglo-American Fifth Army, supported by the greatest weight of Allied Air Force yet seen in the Mediterranean theater and by units of the Allied navy, battled desperately yesterday to enlarge their 24-mile Salerno bridgehead against determined German counter-attacks. United Press reported from Allied headquarters that for every plane the Germans were able to put into the air the Allies were sending up 15.
The great battle for the line extending between Salerno and Agropoli was still in the balancte, but Allied reinforcements of men, supplies and equipment are pouring onto the beaches in an effort to tip the scales in
favor of the United Nations' forces, and reports last night indicated the tide was beginning to turn in favor of the Allies.
All along the fine bitter close-quarter combats raged, with both sides

Saved by Nazis,
Duce Says He's
The Boss Again
Broadcasts from Secret
Haven New Fascist
Regime Set Up
Benito Mussolini, rescued by the Germans, proclaimed himself dictator of Italy again yesterday, and declared, in a series of orders broadcast by the so-called "Fascist Radio," that the Fascist regime in Italy had been reconstituted. His whereabouts was still kept secret by the Germans.
Mussolini ordered that the Fascist party would be known henceforth as the Republican Fascist party, indicating t h a t he had ordered the Italian monarchy abolished. ,
The rebirth of Fascism was not well received in Italy, according to reports filtering across the border, and the I t a l i a n army was said to be completely against Mussolini.

Allied Move
Tn Mideast
Is Reported
9th Army Embarkation Is
Rumored as Balkan
Ferment Grows
Getting Positions to Meet Nazis
By the Associated Press
Britain's great Ninth Army, which the Germans declare has been designated for a drive into the Balkans, was reported on the move Wednesday from its Middle East bases facing the island pathway i nto Greece.
Unconfirmed reports of the embarkation of Gen. Sir Henry Maitland Wilson's army, in training for two years for just such a day, came from Stockholm via Ankara.
These were coupled with authentic accounts in London of Balkan ferment. of sweeping new successes by Yugoslav guerrillas and fierce lighting between Germans and Italians in the Dodecanese Islands off the Turkish mainland.
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