Current Events October 9, 1943;

THIS WAS REPORTED TODAY OCTOBER 9, 1943:

Strong formations of heavy American bombers flew deep into Europe today to bomb important targets in Pomerania, in eastern Germany, Poland and East Prussia, it was announced.

Cairo radio said today that allied forces have crossed the Volturno river above Naples on a. "broad front."
The broadcast said the Germans were retreating to new positions along the.Garigano river some 15 to -20 miles north of the Volturrno.

An outnumbered force of United States destroyers, waylaying a Japanese task force bent on rescuing troops

from the Central Solomons, sank an enemy cruiser or heavy destroyer and at least two other destroyers in a moonlit battle.




                 SYRACUSE
         Herald-Journal
                    SYRACUSE, N. Y., SATURDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 9, 1943

  BOMBERS SMASH DEEP INTO EUROPE
                Jap Solomons Rescue Fleet Blasted
U.S. Airmen
Range far to East Prussia
Targets in. Pomerania.  East Germanv and
Poland Also Hit
1,600-MILE F L I G H T
Attack Follow? R.A.F.
Night Raid on Hannover
and Bremen

Allied Patrols Force
Volturno River Line
To Strike for Rome
Gen. Clark's Artillery Hammers Nazi Positions
on North Bank; Eighth Army
Crushes Resistance at Termoli

3 Warships
Sunk in Trap
By U.S. Craft
Outnumbered Destroyers
Rout Jap Naval Force in
Moonlit Battle

OTHER SHIPS FLEE

Enemy Squadron Foiled
in Move lo Evacuate
Kolombangara Troops Allied Headquarters in the South west Pacific. Oct. 9 (AP).—
An outnumbered force of United States destroyers, waylaying a Japanese task force bent on rescuing troops
from the Central Solomons, sank an enemy cruiser or heavy destroyer and at least two other destroyers in a moonlit battle.
The engagement, in which Amercan losses were described as "moderate." occurred shortly before midnight Wednesday northwest of Vella Lavella Island. It first was reported today by Gen. Douglas MacArthur. A Japanese headquarters communique today announced the evacuation of both Kolombanand and Vella Lavella Islands.(Domei news agency, ignoring reports of the American victory claimed the transfer of troops from the two central Solomon Islands was carried out successfully and "almost without enemy interference.")
The Jap ships, in  three groups.were intercepted by a force commanded by Capt. Frank Robinson Walker of Alabama while attempting either to pull off Nipponese remnants still holding out against the Americans on Vell  Lavella or to complete the evacuation of bypassed Kolombangara to tho south.


             The Bakersfield Californian
                     BAKERSFIELD, CALIFORNIA, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 9, 1943

     ALLIES CRACK VOLTURNO LINE
         U. S. Bombers Shatter Targets in East Prussia 
 YanksRip Vital
    Nazi Hubs
YANKS FLY 1600 MILES
AFTER R.A.F. FLIERS ROCK
HANNOVER, BREMEN
LONDON, Oct. 9.
Strong formations of heavy American bombers flew deep into Europe today to bomb important targets in Pomerania, in eastern Germany, Poland and East Prussia, it was announced.
this deepest daylight penetration into Hitler's fortress from British bases followed up an R. A. F. raid in great strength last night on tho German rubber - manufacturing center of Hannover and a lesser raid on the port of Bremen, which American 'bombers had left in flames yesterday. (The round trip from the vicinity of
London to East Prussia would involve a flight of at least 1800 miles.)
Mosquito planes attacked Berlin and targets In the Ruhr.

Frantic Nazis
Hurl New Force
FIFTH ARMY CAPTURES STRATEGIC RAILWAY,
HIGHWAY CENTER OF CASERTA AS LAST AXIS
RESISTANCE HALTS; ADRIATIC FRONT LULLS
London, October 9, (AP) Cairo radio said today that allied forces
have crossed the Volturno river above Naples on a. "broad front."
The broadcast said the Germans were retreating to new positions along
the.Garigano river some 15 to -20 miles north of the Volturrno.

By NOLAN NORGARD
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, Algiers, Oct. 9. (/AP)—
Allied patrols have fought their way n cross the lower Vollturno riiver in I t a l y where they arc probing the strong enemy defenses on the north bank, and the Germans have hung another division—the Third Armored Grenadiers—into the b a t t l e to hold that river line, allied headquarters  announced today. Allied forces have readied the Vollturno along  i t s  length from the mountains to the sea. Associated Press Correspondent Belinan Morin, with the Fifth Army, reported The strategic railway and  highway center of Conserta, 10 miles above Naples on the southern side of the Volturuo, was captured as the Fifth Army mopped up the last enemy resistance below- the Volturno and Calorc rivers, official reports disclosed.