Current Events September 7, 1943;

THIS WAS REPORTED TODAY SEPTEMBER 7, 1943:

 American paratroops cut off all possible land supply lines of some 20,000 Japanese troops in the Lae and Salamaua area of New Guinea with the capture of an enemy airfield in the •Markham valley, Allied headquarters announced today. General MacArthur watched the operation from a Flying Fortress.  

The British Eighth Army drove steadily ahead on the Calabrian coastal road today, extending the invasion arc
around Italy's southernmost tip to about 60 miles, and smashed another 10 miles inland in the,Santo Stefano sector to Delianuova.

American haavy and. medium bombers, carrying the Allied aerial offensive against western Europe into its
sixth straight day, blasted at targets in Belgium and France this morning after a heavy-RAF night attack on Munich, birthplace of the Nazi party and seat of important German war industries. Large formations of Flying Fortresses and Marauders spearheaded the daylight assaults.
 

  ADRIAN DALEY TELEGRAM
                      ADRIAN, MICHIGAN, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 1943

20.000 JAPS TRAPPED IN NEW GUINEA
MACARTHUR WATCHES
FROM FORTRESS
Paratroopers Take Enemy's
Markham Valley Airstrip
Closing Lae, Salamaua, Trap
Hundreds of Airborne American
• Troops Co-ordinate
With Aussies in AttackBy THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS In the Southwest Pacific, Sept. 7—
American paratroops cut off all possible land supply lines of some 20,000 Japanese troops in the Lae and Salamaua area of New Guinea with the capture of an enemy airfield in the •Markham valley, Allied headquarters announced today. General MacArthur watched the operation from a Flying Fortress.
The airstrip was seized Sunday when hundreds of airborne American soldiers and an Australian artillery unit complete with machine guns, mortars, ammunition, rubber assault boats and radio landed near the field. —
An Australian force, flown into an Allied advance base, marched overland five days to rendezvous near the occupied airfield with the American paratroopers who had, landed Sunday morning while General
Douglas MacArthur looked on from a Flying Fortress.

 INVASION ARC IN
ITALY EXTENDED TO
ABOUT 60 MILES
Palmi and Delianuova Taken;
Allies Meet Little Opposition
DEMOLITIONS EXTENSIVE
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS In
North Africa, Sept. 7—
The British Eighth Army drove steadily ahead on the Calabrian coastal road today, extending the invasion arc
around Italy's southernmost tip to about 60 miles, and smashed another 10 miles inland in the,Santo Stefano sector to Delianuova.
On the west coast, British and Canadian columns had pushed ahead at least as far as Palmi, while on the south their gains extended some distance east of Melilo. The capture of Palmi and Delianuova was announced by Allied headquarters today.
With the coastal arc held by Gen. Montgomery's fighters now approximately 60 miles in length, the wedge driven inland from the original beachhead consists of a triangle running about 15 miles east-northeast from Reggio Calabria and then to the coast at Palmi.  An indication that the Allies already were speeding farther northward on the coastal road came from the German high command, whose Tuesday communique said
"a British attack north of Palmi was repelled."

RAF BOMBS MUNICH;
YANKS RAID EUROPE
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
LONDON, Sept. 7 —
American haavy and. medium bombers, carrying the Allied aerial offensive against western Europe into its
sixth straight day, blasted at targets in Belgium and France this morning after a heavy-RAF night attack on Munich, birthplace of the Nazi party and seat of important German war industries. Large formations of Flying Fortresses and Marauders spearheaded the daylight assaults.
The target of the British overnight assault was identified first by the Berlin radio, a preliminary London announcement saying merely that Germany had again been bombed.
In addition to being the site of important industries, Muniqh is a v i t a l communications center through which flows lines leading into Italy via the Brenner Pass. The British air ministry said 16 bombers were lost in the night'soperations.