Current Events OCTOBER 1, 1943

THIS WAS REPORTED TODAY OCTOBER 1, 1943:

Allied troops marched triumphantly into .battle-scarred Naples today, scoring the greatest victory of the 22-day -Italian, campaign and opening up the road to Rome. The Germans had abandgned Naples after a thorough) job of demolition, and the vanguard of Lt. Gen. Mark; |W. Clarke's Army found its great waterfront a tangle of wreckage

Red armies pounded across the wooded plains of White Russia at places only, a'little more ' than 100
mil.es'" froni the old "Polish border today, increasing the threat to' Adolf 'Hitler's Vitebsk-Orsha Mogilev-Gomel line. (A British radio broadcast reorded by C?BS said the Russians were "practically at the gates of Gomel" and less than 30 miles from Mogilev, Vitebsk and. Oreha.

Australian troops have completed the encirclement of Japanese-held Finschhafen, in' northeastern New Guinea, and slowly are driving the trapped enemy garrison back to the, sea, an Allied communique disclosed today

                     THE DAILY NEWS
                                  HUNTINGDON, PA., FRIDAY, OCTOBER 1, 1943.

FIFTH ARMY CAPTURES NAPLES; CITY RID OF NAZIS

BIG PORT WILL BE
USED AS BASE FOR
BATTLE OF EUROPE
Italy's Third City Is First Great Prize
Of 22-Day Italian Campaign
— Eight Days Needed To
Clear Harbor
By RICHARD D. McMIILLAN,
United Press Correspondent .
Allied Headquarters, North Africa, Oct. 1. —.
Allied troops marched triumphantly into .battle-scarred Naples today, scoring the greatest victory of the 22-day -Italian, campaign and opening up the road to Rome. The Germans had abandgned Naples after a thorough) job of demolition, and the vanguard of Lt. Gen. Mark; |W.l Clark's Army found its great waterfront a tangle of wreckage.
A special communique announcing the capture of Naples, the decisive battle of which was fought in the
mountains- rimming its plain to the south, said: "Troops of the Fifth Army have entered Naples.
The city is reported clear of Germans."
Naples fell 22 days after the Fifth Army landed on the Salerno beaches and opened the .battle for the city. Five days earlier, on the day the Italian armistice was signed, the British Eighth Army crossed from Sicily to the toe of Italy.
The occupation of Naples gave the Allies an ideal base for the drive 125 miles northward to Rome and on beyond, which Clark promised in announcing that the battl" of the Salerno bridgehead was only the beginning.• .
Already Allied air fleets ranging on ahead of the ground forces were pounding the railroads, bridges and other transport targets north of Naples, where the coastal lines lead up to Rome. For two days they had gone unchallenged by German planes-as they bombed and g'unned their objectives.
The Allies found Naples a battered, burned shell of the great port which probably has been subjected. to more bombing than any other Italian city. For weeks the Germans have addea to the devastation with systematic demolitions.

RED ARMIES DRIVE
WITHIN 100 MILES,
OF POLISH BORDER
Russians Increase Threat;
To Present German
Line "As They
Near Gomel
By HENRY SHAPIRO
United Press Correspondent
Moscow, Oct. 1.—
Red armies pounded across the wooded plains of White Russia at places only, a'little more ' than 100
mil.es'" froni the old "Polish border today, increasing the threat to' Adolf 'Hitler's Vitebsk-Orsha Mogilev-Gomel line. (A British radio broadcast reorded by C?BS said the Russians were "practically at the gates of Gomel" and less than 30 miles from Mogilev, Vitebsk and. Oreha.)
In the Ukraine, other Russian, forces were believed consolidating: their positions and bringing up masses of artillery to cover thrusts across the Dnieper River which Stockholm dispatches said •
Hitler has ordered held as a southern winter line at all cost. (Berlin broadcasts acknowledged that the Russians already have established several bridgeheads on the west bank of the Dnieper, but asserted that Soviet efforts to reinforce them were "mostly intercepted.")

AUSSIE COMPLETE
ENCIRCLEMENT OF
FINSCHHAFEN BASE
Trapped Jap yGamson
Is Being Driven
Slowly Back
To Sea
By DON CASWELL
United Press Correspondent
Allied Headquarters, Southwest
Pacific, •' Oct. 1. —
Australian troops have completed the encirclement of Japanese-held Finschhafen, in' northeastern New Guinea, and slowly are driving the trapped enemy garrison back to the, sea, an Allied communique disclosed today.
 Moving-'down' from 'the '.northwest Wednesday night, the Australians stormed and captured Kakagog- spur, a dominating 'height about three-quarters of a mile west of Finschhafen, and then a column around the enemy flank to seal off the southern approaches to the port..
With the main assault force closing in front positions about 700 yards north' of the town and'-----