Current Events September 23, 1943

THIS WAS REPORTED TODAY SEPTEMBER 23, 1943:

A l l i e d headquarters announced advances of 10 to 15 miles in central and southern sectors of Italy today in a forward sweep which was gradually forcing Field Marshal Gen. Albert Kesselring to uncover the inland approaches to smoke - smothered, dynamite- shattered Naples.

The Moscow radio said today that Soviet troops are storming into White Russia in the Gomel sector, shortly after a German announcement that Nazi forces have abandoned Poltava, gateway to the heart of the Ukraine.

Gen. Douglas MacArthur announced today the seaborne landing of Australian troops above Finschhafen,
enemy base 60 miles northeast of Lae on the New Guinea coast, and the destruction of remnants of a Japanese garrison on Arundel island in the Solomons


           THE DAILY TIMES-NEWS
                                 Burlington, N. C.    Thursday September 23, 1943
ALLIES ADVANCE 15 MILES IN ATTACK
           RED TROOPS STORM INTO WHITE RUSSIA

Germans Are Forced
To Uncover Stands;
Escape Route Is Cut
Effective Blockade
Is Established
About Corsica
BY WES GALLAGHER
A l l i e d Headquarters in
North Africa, Sept. 23—(AP)—
A l l i e d headquarters announced advances of 10 to 15 miles in central and southern sectors of Italy today in a forward sweep which was gradually forcing Field Marshal Gen. Albert Kesselring to uncover the inland approaches to smoke - smothered, dynamite- shattered Naples.
Victorious French soldiers and American rangers pressed the Germansback farther into the northeastern corner of Corsica while Allied Air Forces bombed and machineBunned Nazi ships seeking to remove escaping Nazis from the evacuation port of Bastia.
The French high command said today that Allied navies and air forces "are maintaining a very effective blockade of the eastern coast" of Corsica, making; it difficult for the Germans to remove
men and supplies by either sea or air.
                                                                 Up East Coast
The French and American forces on the island had advanced about one-third of the way up the east coast, the communique indicated in telling of an attack carried out in the region of Solenzara. Heavy losses for the enemy resulted, it said. Tile Germans continued thefr retreat toward the northeast.

Big Gateway
Of Poltava
In Disorder
Gomel Sector Hit
Terrific Blows
By Russians
BY JAMBS M. LONG
London, Sept. 23—(AP) —
The Moscow radio said today that Soviet troops are storming into White Russia in the Gomel sector, shortly after a German announcement that Nazi forces have abandoned Poltava, gateway to the heart of the Ukraine.
The Moscow announcement, which quoted the newspaper Izvestia, official organ of the Prae-
BiJlum of the supreme council, was recorded by Reuters. Gomel, In the area where the Hew break-through was announced, Is a rail center about midway between Kiev and Smolensk, within a bare 15 miles of the Dnieper river and within 150 miles'of the old Polish border. Poltava, a city of 90,000, lies on the Vorskla fiver. In the fertile                                   BULLETIN
                                                LONDON, Sept. 23—(AP)—
Premier Joseph Stalin announced today that Poltava, in the heart of the Ukraine, has fallen before a smashing
Russian offensive that carried also to the Gomel area of White Russia.

Australians
Land Above
Finschhafen
North Of Lae
Remnants Of Jap
Garrison Are
Destroyed
BY WILLIAM I-. BUM
A l l i e d Headquarters in the Southwest Pacific, Sept. 23—(AP)
Gen. Douglas MacArthur announced today the seaborne landing of Australian troops above Finschhafen,
enemy base 60 miles northeast of Lae on the New Guinea coast, and the destruction of remnants of a Japanese garrison on Arundel island in the Solomons.
Under protection of warships anc planes, the Australians went ashore agftlnst enemy opposition at dawn
Wednesday six mtles above Peacetime Mission headquarters nnd just below the Sony; River. At dusk on
the previous day, Japanese bombers and fighters sought to attack ships involved in the operations but were
intercepted between Lae and Finschhafen by P-40s which shot down four bombers and five fighters at a cost of one interceptor.
                                                            Ground Action Possible
Capture of Finschhafen on the Huon peninsula, which is more suitable for ground action than any other territory previously attacked on New Guinea, would, give Mac- Arthur control of a gulf within easy over-water striking distance of 11 Japanese-held New Britain and its stronghold at Rabaul.


(This was reported in 1941)
Held Threat
To Britain
London, May 15.—Warning that
the coming of Rudolf Hess. No. 3
German leader, is a threat to the
defence of the British Isles was:
made today by a highly-placed
American in London.
Interviewed by the Associated
Press, the American declared that
Hess may be, wittingly or unwittingly,
the harbinger of new offences.