Current Events September 21, 1943;

THIS WAS REPORTED TODAY SEPTEMBER 21, 1943:

The battle-tempered fifth army fashioned a siege arc today astride the sea and land approaches to Naples after capturing the entire chain of hills along the Sorrento peninsula. American "long torn" and other heavy guns commanded the whole bay of Naples, including Italy's chief port itself. German forces on the inland flank were in full fledged retreat under merciless allied air punishment.

Premier Marshal Pietro Badoglio called on all Italians in a proclamation released today to fight by the side of the allies in the struggle to oust the Germans from Italy.



       YANK SIEGE ARC
                        BEARS ON NAPLES

         LONG BEACH INDEPENDENT
                            Long Beach, California, Tuesday, September 21, 1943

Yankee Heavy Guns Command Bay at
Naples, Nazis Run Under Air Attack
Yankee Heavy Guns Command Bay at
Naples, Nazis Run Under Air Attack
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN NORTH AFRICA, Sept. 20.—(INS)—
The battle-tempered fifth army fashioned a siege arc today astride the sea and land approaches to Naples after capturing the entire chain of hills along the Sorrento peninsula. American "long torn" and other heavy guns commanded the whole bay of Naples, including Italy's chief port itself. German forces on the inland flank were in full fledged retreat under merciless allied air punishment.
While the left wing of Lieut. Gen. Marie \V. Clark's fifth army raced 15 miles west from Salerno  to the tip of Sorrento peninsula forming the lower arm of the  Nnplcs bay. the right wing also gained fresh ground Sunday.

Badoglio Calls on
People to Fight
ALGIERS, Sept. 20.—(INS) —
Premier Marshal Pietro Badoglio called on all Italians in a proclamation released today to fightby the side of the allies in the struggle to oust the Germans from Italy.
The Italian prime minister, who had escaped from Home to allied held territory, bitterly denounced the nazis for their creation of a ''puppet government" designed to rule Italy in the name of the German - abducted Benito Mussolini. 'In a statement bordering on a declaration of war .on Germany, Badoglio condemned the Recich for hiaving turned the Italian mainland into a battleground for the sake of keeping the war away from the nazis' homeland.
Therefore," lie declared, "there is but one watchword for us allone order alone: 'Out with theGermans!'

French Commandos
Aid Underground
in Corsica Landing
LONDON, Sept. 20.—(INS)—
Reuter's declared in a dispatch from allied North African headquarters late tonight t h a t French
c o m m a n d o s h a v e landed on the island ol Corsica. The commandos, it was announced, were landing on the island immediately after the armistice between the allies and Italy was concluded.
They went promptly into the battle which already had been launched by underground French patriot forces in Corsica against the German troops of occupation.
The amphibious French forces that landed on Corsica, only 106 miles southeast of the French mainland coast at Nice, are part of the army commanded by Gen Henri Honore Giraud.
Giraud declared that the fight ing on Corsica, within 54 miles of the north Italian coast, has "taken a favorable turn.

Portugal Interns
Yank Air Crew
LISBON, Sept. 20.-(INS)—
An American bomber was reported to have made a forced landing today at Cape Sagres in southern
Portugal. The crew of five was said to have surrendered to Portuguese authorities for internment.
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