Current Events September 19, 1943;

THIS WAS REPORTED TODAY SEPTEMBER 19, 1943:

Soviet troops smashed to within 37 miles of Dnleperopetrovsk, Boulder Dam of the Dnieper river bend. with the capture of the railway Junction 'of PavloRrad, and swept closer to imperiled Kiev with gains on the
north and east, Moscow announced tonight.

Nazi Field Marshal Albert Kesselring, realizing he has lost, the battle of Salerno, today began 'pulling back his troops from the southern end of the front to escape the danger of a trap posed by the Juncture of the 5th and 8th armies. Supporting by swarms of fighters and fighter-bombers now usin captured airfields in Italy.
              The Charleston Gazette
                  Charleston. Wcsi Virginia. Sunday Morning, September 19, 1943.

Nazi Retreat to Poland Hinted as Reds
Sweep Closer to Kiev, Dnieper Bend;
Germans Recoil to Escape Trap Threat
Enemy Admits
Plans to Yield
Area in Russia
Sertorious, Radio Expert,
Doesn't Know 'Where'
Withdrawal Halts
LONDON. Sept. 18.—(AP)_
Soviet troops smashed to within 37 mltcs of Dnleperopetrovsk, Boulder Dam of the Dnieper river bend. with the capture of the railway Junction 'of PavloRrad, and swept closer to imperiled Kiev with gains on the
north and east, Moscow announced tonight.
A total of 733 towns and villages were captured, said Ihe Moscow communique recorded by the Soviet monitor, in an unchecked advance in almost every sector of the 600 mile front—toward Smolensk, Roslavl. Gomel, Chernigov, Poltava, Zaporozhe, Melitopol and In the Caucasus.
The communique told of the triumphs amid a chorus of pessimistic German admissions relayed
from Stockholm, Madrid and even Berlin Itself.
                                                 622-Mlle Retreat Hinted
Stockholm reports said Germany was withdrawing elite troops from Ihe Russian front to reinforce Italy
and retreating to save its men for fighting on other fronts. Madrid suggested the. Germans might abandon
their Russian campaign and fallback 620 miles to the Polish frontier.




Line Now Being
Formed For Big
Naples Battle
Allies Continue Pulling
Reinforcements Ashore
At Salerno
By Pierre J. IIus*
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN
NORTH AFRICA. Sept. 18.— (INS)—
Nazi Field Marshal Albert Kesselring, realizing he has lost, the battle of Salerno, today began 'pulling back his troops from the southern end of the front to escape the danger of a trap posed by the Juncture of the 5th and 8th armies. Supporting by swarms of fighters and fighter-bombers now usin captured arfields in Italy.
Lt. Gen Mark; W. Clark's troops plunged  five miles through the Salerno hills 1 to seize Rocca D'Aspide. and thrust spearheads 12 miles inland from the reinforcement-choked beaches,
The Nazis, expecting a powerful flank assault from Gen. Sir Bernard Montgomery's 8th army, fell back before the power of the greatly-strengthened 5th army in what appeared to be a planned
maneuver to curl their left flank to the north.
                                                       Naples Line Being Formed
Slackening enemy resistancr at the lower end of the battlefield ; indicated Kesselring, conceding failure
at Salerno bay, is preparing for the battle of Naples by establishing a west-to-east line and abandoning the north to south line that once pinned the 5th army to the beaches.

Nazis in Italy
Fear Sabotage
Death Edict Proclaimed
To Crush Resistance
BERN. Switzerland. Sept. 18.—(AP)
—The German secret police went into full speed operation in Italy today with an order Imposing death
on all Italians caught hiding arms or molesting or stealing military equipment.
The death decree was published throughout occupied Italy---