The German Armies In the Crimea have begun n mass withdrawal from the peninsula via the Ferckop
land bridge, Moscow advices Indicated to day, In escape entrapment by a powerful Russian advance threatening tlic line of retreat. Battling furiously to stem the steady progress of the Red army troops pouring through the Kremenchug bridgehead east of the Dneiper river, the German command was said to be throwing all available reserves Into the breach.
land bridge, Moscow advices Indicated to day, In escape entrapment by a powerful Russian advance threatening tlic line of retreat. Battling furiously to stem the steady progress of the Red army troops pouring through the Kremenchug bridgehead east of the Dneiper river, the German command was said to be throwing all available reserves Into the breach.
defenses based on Massico ridge.
A great fleet of RAF heavy night bombers, out for the eighth time this month, smashed at the Germans'
second line of industrial defense last night, hitting the big city of Leipzig where many of the Ruhr's bombedout
industries have moved.
_______________________________________________________ second line of industrial defense last night, hitting the big city of Leipzig where many of the Ruhr's bombedout
industries have moved.
Leipzig Was
A Great City
"They blasted the hell out of Leipzig last night," someone commented in the editorial office.
The last time I saw Leipzig. , ."!No, because I never saw it. My great grand-parents saw Leipzig and knew It when the city was more than another marker in the checkerboard game of world destruction. Coventry, Cologne, Hamburg, Leipzig.
Leipzig as they knew it was the city of the toy fairs, the city of publishers, musicians and philosophers.
Johann Sebastian Bach was cantor at St. Thomas's church in Leipzig; the conservatory's annual concerts were famous through the musical world. Mendelssohn and Schumann worked there, and Wagner was
a native of the town.
Leipzig university was one of the greatest in all Germany, making the city a center for scientific and intellectual advances.The last time I saw Leipzig. , ."!No, because I never saw it. My great grand-parents saw Leipzig and knew It when the city was more than another marker in the checkerboard game of world destruction. Coventry, Cologne, Hamburg, Leipzig.
Leipzig as they knew it was the city of the toy fairs, the city of publishers, musicians and philosophers.
Johann Sebastian Bach was cantor at St. Thomas's church in Leipzig; the conservatory's annual concerts were famous through the musical world. Mendelssohn and Schumann worked there, and Wagner was
a native of the town.
More than 1,000 publishing firms were established in Leipzig, where Gottsched, Gellert and Schiller made a literary capital for the German empire in the 18th century.
Leipzig earned political and commercial freedom early, gaining her charter in 1160.
Wars are nothing new to the city, which became embroiled in religious wars after 1539 when the populace turned Protestant; was the site of the Imperial defeat by Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden in the Thirty Years war in 1631; and where Napoleon suffered a defeating retreat in October, 1813.
But this ' time, they blasted the hell out of Leipzig, where the world fights again.
F Z
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Several thousand Japanese and Australian troops waged a bloody battle today in the jungle a short distance north of Finschhafen, New Guinea, with the enemy on the offensive. Prom strongly-held positions at Sattelberg, 15 miles inland, the Japanese achieved some success in a drive to join another force on the coast and thus form a solid line along the Song river. The river mouth, toward which the enemy Is on the move, is five miles north of Finschhafeb.
The Portsmouth Herald
PORTSMOUTH, N. H., THURSDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 21,1943
Germans Begin Retreat from Crimea
LEIPZIG TAKES BRUNT OF HUGE
RAID BY RAF'S HEAVY BOMBERS
Crimea
Nazis
Circled
London, Oct. 21 (AP)—
The German armies In the Crimea have begun n mass withdrawal from the peninsula via the Ferckop
land bridge, Moscow advices Indicated today, In escape entrapment by a powerful Russian advance threatening the line of retreat. batteling furiously to stem the steady progress of the Red army troops pouring through the Kremenchug bridgehead west of the Dneiper river, the German command was said to be throwing all available reserves Into the breach.
But the Soviet drive, hourly increasing in momentum, smashed further to the west through the Ukrainian Steppe country to overtip the Crimea on the north, a Russian communique disclosed.
Reds Near Key Base
A second Reel army column was reaching south toward Krlvol Rog, important rail Junction and center of the south Russian Iron Industry, nncl today was reported to be within 35 miles of that key German stronghold guarding the Inst escape route from the Crimea. More than 1,500 Nazis were slain it this advance, the Russian communique declared.
Fifth Army
Probing
For Nazis
Allied Headquarters, Algiers, Oct. 21 (AP)—
The Fifth army has made slight gains in the area north of the Volturno river, it was announced today, and advanced elements are probing the region to determine exactly where the Germans are setting up their new
defenses based on Massico ridge.
The ditches and irrigation canals of this fertile, but now devastated, agricultural terrain slowed up the
progress of Lt. Gen. Mark W. Clark's troops.
On the Eighth army front, Gen.Sir Bernard L. Montgomery's troops stormed the high ground dominating the road running northwest from Vinchiaturo, occupied Busso, a mountain village about four miles due west of Campobasso, and swept into Oratino a few miles to the north. Busso, situated 2,400 feet above sea level, overlooks Baranello to the south.
Bombers Wreck Trains
Stabbing deeper into the Balkans than on any previous flights, American medium bombers from the North.west African forces wrecked the roundhouse and locomotives at Nis, Yugoslavia, to lend an assist
to the guerrilla forces fighting the Germans there
Nis lies between Belgrade and Sofia and is an important junction through which the Orient 'express
passes. From Nis the line branches to the south to Salonika through Skoplje, which recently was raided by the Northwest African Air force.
Railway objectives at Nis were left a mass of flaming wreckage by the American B-25 Marauders, escorted
by P-38 Lightnings.
Planes
Batter
Reich
London, Oct. 21 (AP)—
A great fleet of RAF heavy night bombers, out for the eighth time this month, smashed at the Germans'
second line of industrial defense last night, hitting the big city of Leipzig where many of the Ruhr's bombedout
industries have moved.
Mosquito bombers roared swiftly over the German capital for the third time this week while other bombers ranged over widespread areas of the Reich.
The RAF lost 17 bombers, the same number as in the last big raid on Hannover Monday. Eight bombers were lost in yesterday's raid by Plying Fortresses on the metal plants at Dueren. These losses indicated the Nazi destruction of 60 Fortresses over Schwelnfurt a week ago may have been only a break of luck for the German defenders. The big attack on Leipzig, unbombed since its sixth raid of the war Nov. 23, 1940, came while the Germans, in sharp contrast, sent « tiny force of bombers over Eng» land to give London its fifth successive night alert and kfll six persons with a handful of scattered bombs.
Leipzig has one of the world's largest railroad terminals on lines linking it with other Important industrial centers like Berlin, Regensburg and Kassel, also recently blasted by Britain-based Allied bombers.
It was the first big attack of the war on the city and represented a round-trip flight of more than 1,000 miles for the raiders.
With a population of more than 700,000, the city manufactures airplanes, munitions, chemicals, textiles,
rubber products and machinery.
Leipzig Was
A Great City
"They blasted the hell out of Leipzig last night," someone commented in the editorial office.
The last time I saw Leipzig. , ."!No, because I never saw it. My great grand-parents saw Leipzig and knew It when the city was more than another marker in the checkerboard game of world destruction. Coventry, Cologne, Hamburg, Leipzig.
Leipzig as they knew it was the city of the toy fairs, the city of publishers, musicians and philosophers.
Johann Sebastian Bach was cantor at St. Thomas's church in Leipzig; the conservatory's annual concerts were famous through the musical world. Mendelssohn and Schumann worked there, and Wagner was
a native of the town.
Leipzig university was one of the greatest in all Germany, making the city a center for scientific and intellectual advances.
More than 1,000 publishing firms were established in Leipzig, where Gottsched, Gellert and Schiller made a literary capital for the German empire in the 18th century.
Leipzig earned political and commercial freedom early, gaining her charter in 1160.
Wars are nothing new to thecity, which became embroiled in religious wars after 1539 when the populace turned Protestant; was the site of the Imperial defeat by Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden in the Thirty Years war in 1631; and where Napoleon suffered a defeating retreat in October, 1813.
But this ' time, they blasted the hell out of Leipzig, where the world fights again.
F. Z.
Japs Drive
Nearer to
Finschhafen
Allied Headquarters in the Southwest
Pacific, Oct. 21 (AP)—
Several thousand Japanese and Australian troops waged a bloody battle today in the jungle a short distance north of Finschhafen, New Guinea, with the enemy on the offensive. Prom strongly-held positions at Sattelberg, 15 miles inland, the Japanese achieved some success in a drive to join another force on the coast and thus form a solid line along the Song river. The river mouth, toward which the enemy Is on the move, is five miles north of Finschhafen.
This counter-offensive cost the Japanese more than. 200 men Tuesday in fierce action against elements of Australia's famed Ninth division which captured Finschhafen Oct. 2 and-before that had gained
battle glory at El Alamein in Egypt against the Germans.
The enemy took the initiative for the iH'st time since General Mac- Arthur, in a swift series of paratroop
and amphibious pincer thrusts, began enveloping New Guinea bases from which it would be possible for
him to invade New Britain.
It also was the first time in months that the opposing forces had come to grips on such a large scale, indicating Japanese determination not to continue further the withdrawals they made from Salamaua
Sept; 12, Lae Sept. 16 and Finschhafen.
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