Current Events September 4. 1943; Three Italian ports captured:

THIS WAS REPORTED TODAY SEPTEMBER 4, 1943:


THE DAILY NEWS
HUNTINGDON, PA., SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 1943.

THREE BIG ITALIAN PORTS CAPTURED BY BRITISH
REGGIO CALABRIA
GALLICO AND SAN
GIOVANNI TAKEN
 Italian Defense Forces Now Moving
Northward Into Mountains In
Face Of British 8th
Army's Heavy Drive
By REYNOLDS PACKARDUnited Press Correspondent
Allied Headquarters, North Africa, Sept. 4. —
British and Canadian invasion troops seized the three key ports-of Reggio Calabria, San Giovanni and Gallico in the first day; of the battle for Italy, securing a bridgehead 10 to. 15 miles long, and today were reported pushing inland against light opposition. Gen. Sir Bernard L. Montgomery's Eighth Army landed all along the Calabrian beach across from Sicily,
Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower's
 headquarters revealed, but
aimed the heaviest thrusts at
San Giovanni and Reggio
Calabria.

and the usable Reggio Calabria
j air field with a runway almost a
j mile long, the invasion forces
swung around in a converging
maneuver for a junction at Galileo,
midway between the big
towns.
(Military sources in Londor
said the whole Italian shorelini
on the Straits of Messina probably
was in Allied hands and th&
Eighth Army likely was "striding
swiftly along the coast roads on
either side of the Italian Toe.)
(The Italian high command reported
the loss of Melito, 10
miles southeast of Reggio Calabria,
and a. .Berlin broadcast reported
a'new .landing between
Melito and Cape Spartivento, 15
miles' to the east.)
Axis efforts to impede the invasion
advance following the capture
of the ports were limited
largely -to demolitions. The land,
sea and air bombardment .knocked
out enemy gun posts ashore,
and the landing forces easily overran
the crumpled positions.