Current Events October 10, 1943;

THIS WAS REPORTED TODAY OCTOBER 10, 1043:
American Liberators and Flying Fortresses, in the war's deepest penetration of Central Europe by Britain-based planes, attacked major targets in northeastern Germany, Poland and East Prussia Saturday, aiming one blow at what is believed to be the anchorage of the bulk of Adolf Hitler's fleet.
Bombers ranged so far into the reich they reached within 400 miles of the Russo-German fighting front and press comments in London said the attacks were in direct support of the Soviet army.

Premier-Marshal. Josef Stalin announced tonight that Germany's Caucasus remnants had been driven from the Taman peninsula and, as Soviet forces swarmed across the Dnieper at scores of new crossings, the Russian military newspaper Red Star proclaimed that "the initiative now is entirely
with the Red army."

American fifth army troops drove .tonight within 95 miles, of Rome after crossing the flooded Volturno river on the Germans' own pontoon bridges while the eighth army smashed Inland toward the eternal city from the
Adriatic coast where the Nazis were in headlong retreat. 

The battle of the Solomons surged toward the southeastern fringe of Rabaul, main Japan South Pacific base, today after an out-numbered and outgunned U. S. destroyer flotilla single-handily mauled and  routed a triple enemy naval force in a midnight :requiem to Jap control cf the North Central Solomons.



   The Charleston Daily Mail
CHARLESTON, WEST V I R G I N I A , SUNDAY M O R N I N G , OCTOBER 10, 1943

BRITAIN-BASED AMERICAN FLYERS STAGE SENSATIONAL RAID INTO DEEPEST GERMANY
'Forts Smash at Gdynia, Hitler's Main Fleet Hideout

LONDON (UP).—American Liberators and Flying Fortresses, in the war's deepest penetration of Central Europe by Britain-based planes, attacked major targets in northeastern Germany, Poland and East Prussia Saturday, aiming one blow at what is believed to be the anchorage of the bulk of Adolf Hitler's fleet.
Bombers ranged so far into the reich they reached within 400 miles of the Russo-German fighting front and press comments in London said the attacks were in direct support of the Soviet army.
Tons of high explosives were loosed on a concentrated area at Gydnia, the port 15 miles north of Danzig where four years ago Germany began the war by attacking Poland and where Hitler was believed to have anchored a major part of his navy, including the. .26,000-ton battleship Gneisenau.
The other targets were Maricnburg, rail junction in East Prussia 830 miles from Britain; Danzig, the former free port 800 miles from Britain, and Anklam, in northeastern Germany 47 miles northwest of Stettin.
Besides the Gneisenau, the battle cruisers Lutzow and Adm. Scheer, both of. 10,000.to 12,000 tons; the heavy cruiser Prinz Eugen of 10,000 tons; the cruisers Nurnberg, Liepzig and Emden, some 17 destroyers and several submarines were believed to be at Gydnia. Some of the ships appeared in previous
renaissance pictures of the port.

Red Armies Roll Across Dnieper;
Caucasus Cleared of Nazi Forces
River Lines Shattered
In Crushing Offensive 
Nazis Admit Taman Evacuation;
Initiative Now With Russians
LONDON (UP).—Premier-Marshal. Josef Stalin announced tonight that Germany's Caucasus remnants had been driven from the Taman peninsula and, as Soviet forces swarmed across the Dnieper at scores of new crossings, the Russian military newspaper Red Star proclaimed that "the initiative now is entirely
with the Red army."
The regular Soviet .operational communique broadcast by Moscow said more than 20,000 Germans were killed and 3,000 taken prisoner in the last stages of the Taman campaign in which the enemy lost 52 tanks, 337 field guns, 769 mortars, 83. locomotives and quantities of other.equipment.

EighthArmy
Turns West
Upon Rome
Volturno Crossed;
Nazis on Adriatic
In Headlong Retreat
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS^ Algiers (UP).—
American fifth army troops drove .tonight within 95 miles, of Rome after crossing the flooded Volturno river on the Germans' own pontoon bridges while the eighth army smashed Inland toward the eternal city from the
Adriatic coast where the Nazis were in headlong retreat. .'.
The fifth army, consolidating its 17-mile front along the Volturno in force,, captured the road junction of Caserta, seven miles southeast of; fallen Capua, and it was announced that the German 16th panzer division had lost 15 of its 30 tanks m 'futile counter-attacks against the eighth army around Termoli.
Winging out from Italian bases' in a new..phase of the:'Mediterranean aerial warfare, planes of
the northwest Africa '' air force hammered air fields on Crete and Greece and began patrol operations over the Aegean, supplementing the work of the Middle East air force.
Bitter Slav
Fight Rages
4 Nazi Held Cities
Menaced by Patriots
LONDON (UP). —
B i t t e r fighting raged tonight throughout Jugoslavia and northeastern Italy as the Jugoslav people's army of liberation advanced on fronts, threatening four major cities including Trieste and holding their positions against a German onslaught spearhead in one area by 200 tanks.

Sea Victory
Perils Japs'
Rabaul Base
New Guinea Aussics
-Driving on Madang
Walker Wins Praise
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS,
Southwest Pacific (Sunday) (UP).—
The battle of the Solomons surged toward the southeastern fringe of Rabaul, main Japan South Pacific base, today after an out-numbered and outgunned U. S. destroyer flotilla single-handily mauled and  routed a triple enemy naval force in a midnight :requiem to Jap control cf the North Central Solomons.