Breaking loose with a five run blast in the eighth inning, the
New York Yankees downed the St.Louis Cardinals 6 to 2 in the third tilt in the world series today, before an all-time record series crowd of 69,900, to take a 2 to 1 lead in games in the 1943 fall classic.
The shattering American sea and air bombardment of Japanese-held Wake
Island Tuesday dawn pointed today to a mounting naval offensive designed
to roll back the enemy from his Pacific outposts.
Striking with dramatic speed only 24 hours after the disclosure that American naval chiefs have just concluded a Pacific war council in Hawaii, warships of a powerful U.S. task force raked the tiny islet
with shell fire while planes from an accompanying carrier bombed and strafed the enemy
Striking with dramatic speed only 24 hours after the disclosure that American naval chiefs have just concluded a Pacific war council in Hawaii, warships of a powerful U.S. task force raked the tiny islet
with shell fire while planes from an accompanying carrier bombed and strafed the enemy
The battle for Rome has begun with the Germans
launching powerful infantry and armored attacks in the Termoli area
along the Adriatic where the Eighth army of Gen. Sir Bernard L.
Montgomery stands 130 miles east and slightly south of the capital city
The Berkshire Evening Eagle
Pittsfield. Massachusetts. Thursday. October 7. 1943.
5th Army Approaching Capua;
British Repel Counterattack
U. S. Task Force Attack on Wake Island
Gives Promise of Growing Naval Offensive ,
Planes, Ships Blast
Japanese Installations
PEARL HARBOR (UP). —
The shatering American sea and .air bombardment, of Japanese - held Wake Island Tuesday day, pointed
to a mounting naval offensiive designed to roll back the enemy from Pacific outposts.
Striking with dramatic speed only 24 hours after disclosure that American, naval chiefs have just concluded a Pacific wair council in Hawaii warships of a powerful. U. S. task force raked the tiny Isle. With shell fire while plane from an accompanying carrier bombed and strafed the enemy,
Few Details Revealed
FREEPORT JOURNAL STANDARD
FREEPORT, ILLINOIS, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 7, 1943
Japanese-Held Wake Island;
Australians50 Miles From Madang
U. 5. Warships
And Planes Rake
Pacific Outpost
BY WILLIAM F. TYREE
Pearl Harbor, T. H. Oct. 7.—(AP)—
The shattering American sea and air bombardment of Japanese-held Wake Island Tuesday dawn pointed today to a mounting naval offensive designed to roll back the enemy from his Pacific outposts.
Striking with dramatic speed only 24 hours after the disclosure that American naval chiefs have just concluded a Pacific war council in Hawaii, warships of a powerful U.S. task force raked the tiny islet
with shell fire while planes from an accompanying carrier bombed and straffed the enemy.
A terse communique issued by Adm Chester W. Nimitz, commander-inchief of the Pacific fleet, gave few
details of the action, possibly indicating that the task force had not yet broken radio silence and might still be ranging deep in enemy waters, bent on a new assault.
Adm. Montgomery in Command
"A strong Pacific fleet task force commanded by Rear Adm. Alfred E Montgomery, U. S. N., heavily attacked enemy-held positions' on Wake Island with carrier aircraft and ship bombardment, commencing
at dawn, Oct. 5, 1943, west longitude time," the communique said "further details are not now available.
"The new raid, coming amid persistent reports that a major United States naval 'offensive in the central Pacific is Impending, climaxed a series of far-ranging forays staged by American task forces against the enemy's island bases in the past month.
Battle for Rome
Begins As Nazis
Attack 8th Army
BY NOLAND NORGAARD
Allied Headquarters, Algiers, Oct. 7.—(AP)—
The battle for Rome has begun with the Germans launching powerful infantry and armored attacks in the Termoli area along the Adriatic where the Eighth army of Gen. Sir Bernard L. Montgomery stands 130 miles east and slightly south of the capital city.
Official announcements at Allied headquarters tqjiay said the Germans had shifted an entire armored division from the west side of the peninsula and thrown it into an onslaught against Montgomery's
forces.
Gen. Montgomery's troops also have been reinforced for the showdown fight, and have beaten off the attacks, Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower's communique announced.
Warship Aid Montgomery
Two British destroyers brought naval artillery to the aid of Montgomery, driving into the narrow Adriatic and pounding railway nnd enemy military targets to the northwest of Termoli, countering and dislocating
the German attack just as naval forces were used to assist In the offensive against Naples.
The Northwest African air forces also were intensely active over Gen. Montgomery's front for the first time In weeks. Both R. A. P. and American fighter planes swept northward from Termoli as far as Pescara on the Adriatic, and inland as far as Alfedena, halfway .to Rome on the Termoli-Rome highway.
While fresh German tank units hastened to oppose the Eighth army's flanking threat, the Germans rushed the task of fortifying the Volturno river 20 miles north of Naples against Lt. Gen. Mark W. Clark's Fifth army which reported dogged progress northward despite extensive demolitions and heavy rains which impeded the movement of heavy equipment.
Cross Only Tributary
Further information from the front said the crossing of the Volturno by Fifth army elements, which was reported yesterday, was only along the main tributary of the Volturno system, commonly known as the Galore.
Yankees Beat Cards
6 To 2 In Third Game
Get Five Runs
In Eighth To
Chase Brazle
Yankee Stadium, New York. Oct. 7.—W—
Breaking loose with a five run blast in the eighth inning, the
New York Yankees downed the St.Louis Cardinals 6 to 2 in the third tilt in the world series today, before an all-time record series crowd of 69,900, to take a 2 to 1 lead in games in the 1943 fall classic.
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