Current Events October 17, 1943;

THIS WAS REPORTED TODAY OCTOBER 17, 1943:

Allied troops smashing forward all across the Italian front have wrested two vital road junctions and 10 other towns from the Germans, Who were reported officially Saturday to be counterattacking savagely and renewing their aerial support in a desperate effort to break away from close-quarter combat.

S o v i e t  forces, resuming their offensive southeast of Kremenchug, broke through .German lines Saturday for' a three to six-mile gain, but front; dispatches indicated that the nazi command was throwing massive'
ground and air reserves into thej battle of the middle Dnieper in an apparent decision to make a stand; on the river line.

The Chinese continued to give ground Saturday in severe fighting with a force of about 10,000 Japanese who are pressing a two-column offensive along the Burma gateway Into southwestern China, a Chinese communique said Saturday.
Announcing for the first tlmo the start of nn offensive early in October to forestall a "Chinese drive to recapture Burma," a Japanese Imperial headquarters communique broadcast from Berlin said Japanese were progressing from Tcngucli In Yunnan and Myltkylna -In northern Burma

                    The Billings Gazette

                           BILLINGS, MONTANA, SUNDAY, OCTOBER 17, 1943

Nazi Forces Attempt
Orderly Retreat
From Volturno River

Fifth Army Repels
Attacks Designed
To Aid Withdrawal

Allied Headquarters, Algiers, Oct. 16.—(AP)
Allied troops smashing forward all across the Italian front have wrested two vital road junctions and 10 other towns from the Germans, Who were reported officially Saturday to be counterattacking savagely and renewing their aerial support in a desperate effort to break away from close-quarter combat.
The battle north of the Volturno river reached a new high point of fury as the Germans lashed out repeatedly
with terrific coimterassaults designed to disrupt the allies long enough to permit an orderly nazi withdrawal, biit the American Fifth army struck back with such speed and power as to upset the enemy's plans.
The French radio at Algiers Said In a broadcast recorded in London that the Germans north of the
Volturno were In full retreat.
Both the Fifth army in the west and the British Eighth army in the east threatened to outflank the Germans'
Volturno river line after hurlIng the stubbornly-resisting enemy forces back with lightning advances ranging up to seven miles. In a northward thrust which carried them five miles beyond the Caloro river, Fifth army forces captured Ccrrcto, nine miles northeast of the point where the Colore meets the Volturno, to Increase their threat to the enemy's Volturno flank.

Russian Attacks Meet
Stiffening Resistance
On Middle Dneiper Line
German Command
Throws Ground, Air
Reserves Into Fight
London, Oct. 16.—(UP)—
S o v i e t  forces, resuming their offensive southeast of Kremenchug, broke through .German lines Saturday for' a three to six-mile gain, but front; dispatches indicated that the nazi command was throwing massive'
ground and air reserves into thej battle of the middle Dnieper in an apparent decision to make a stand; on the river line.

Japanese Force
Chinese Back
Fighting Reported
Near Burman Border
Chungking, Oct. 16.—(AP)—
The Chinese continued to give ground Saturday in severe fighting with a force of about 10,000 Japanese who are pressing a two-column offensive along the Burma gateway Into southwestern China, a Chinese communique said Saturday.
Announcing for the first tlmo the start of nn offensive early in October to forestall a "Chinese drive to recapture Burma," a Japanese Imperial headquarters communique broadcast from Berlin said Japanese
were progressing from Tcngucli In Yunnan and Myltkylna -In northern Burma.
A Tokyo broadcast by Domel Avs agency said Japanese commanders were "stealing a march" on 10 Chinese divisions of the Fifth, Ninth and Eleventh army groups which had been equipped with American weapons and provided with American aircraft for a projected offensive.