Current Events November 9, 1943; Hitler predicts victory or annihialation;

THIS WAS REPORTED TODAY NOVEMBER 9, 1943:

Speaking in the Munich beer hall which mothered the founding of Nazism, Adolf Hitler last night pleaded for the loyalty of the German people, whom he praised for refusing to "allow any traitor chief to arise."
Capping a week in which the German press has continually harped on. the theme that there would be no
duplication of 1918, Hitler predicted a war to victory or annihilation, and sought to bolster his adherents with the slogan, "The meaning of our honor is loyalty—that is the motto of the whole nation."

In the twilight of the war, Russia last night had brought the full meaning of "blitzkrieg" home to Germany.
Lightning thrusts took Soviet spearheads 50 miles past Kiev, while in the Nevel sector to the north Russian advance forces battled in the outskirts of Polotsk, barely 20 miles from the Polish border.

Gen. Montgomery's Eighth Army edged its way along Italy's eastern coast yesterday, advanced five miles, captured two towns and reached a point five miles from the Sangro River, natural defense line where the Germans are expected to make another stand.


             THE STARS AND STRIPES
          Daily Newspaper of U.S. Armed Forces  In the European Theater of Operations
                            New York, N.Y.—London, England           Tuesday, Nov. 9, 1943

Hitler Demands Germans' Loyalty;
Reds 20 Miles from Poland in North
FuehrerPraises
Reich Refusal
To Revolt
Speaking in the Munich beer hall which mothered the founding of Nazism, Adolf Hitler last night pleaded for the loyalty of the German people, whom he praised for refusing to "allow any traitor chief to arise."
Capping a week in which the German press has continually harped on. the theme that there would be no
duplication of 1918, Hitler predicted a war to victory or annihilation, and sought to bolster his adherents with the slogan, "The meaning of our honor is loyalty—that is the motto of the whole nation."
"The German people and its soldiers," declared Hitler, speaking on the 20th anniversary of the abortive Munich putsch, "who had not allowed any traitor chief to arise are now shaping the impregnability of the Reich, fanatically determined to conquer and live by their loyalty and by their unconditional struggle which shrinks from no sacrifice;"
                                                                   1918 Parallel Drawn
The Fuehrer's attempt to hold together the strings of Nazism came at a time when German propagandists were pointing daily to the parallel military situation of 1918 but insisting in the same breath that this lime there would be no internal collapse.
These assertions Were being coupled with gloomy forecasts of still graver news from the Eastern Front, where the Wehrmachl was reporled in a slale akin to lotal disorganizalion.

Great Rout Goes
On Far West
Of Kiev
In the twilight of the war, Russia last night had brought the full meaning of "blitzkrieg" home to Germany.
Lightning thrusts took Soviet spearheads 50 miles past Kiev, while in the Nevel sector to the north Russian advance forces battled in th-< outskirts of Polotsk, barely 20 miles from the Polish border.
The slashing drive past recaptured Kiev brought the vital rail junction of Fastov into Russian hands, thus cutting the Germans' supply line to Krivqi Rog and the Dnieper Bend, and split in two the enemy forces of the north Ukraine and Nazis_still battling in the river loop. A Moscow radio broadcast heard in Stockholm gave the news of the advance to Polotsk, which is not only a vital supply point for the Germans but a funnel
through which the enemy might evacuate
Nazis retreating in the Nevel-Vitebsk-Smolensk sectors.
                                                              Retreat a Vast Rout
Dispatches from Moscow last night said that Germany was facing the greatest disaster of the war in the Ukraine. Gen. Von Hoth's army fleeing from Kiev was ! disorganized, the retreat had turned into ', a rout, and the envelopment of a vast area between the Dnieper and the Bug | rivers loomed in the offing. Moscow's jubilance was matched by Berlin's gravity.



8th Edges
5 Miles to
River Line
5th Gets Stiff Opposition
As It Advances
Toward Rome
ALLIED HQ, North Africa, Nov. 8 (UP)—
Gen. Montgomery's Eighth Army edged its way along Italy's eastern coast yesterday, advanced five miles, captured two towns and reached a point five miles from the Sangro River, natural defense line where the Germans are expected to make another stand.
At the other end of the line, the Fifth steadilv rushed nearer Rome along the main road into the capital, despite fierce Nazi resistance. Advances were made in one sector and a small town occupied.
The whole Eighth Army moved forward along most of its front, but the biggest advance was made near the coast, where the Eighth crossed the Sinello river, which j runs inland parallel to the Trigno and the Sangro, and occupied Castelbordino and Scerni, only five miles from the Sangro.
                                                  U.S. Meets Stiff Resistance
Further inland, other units of the Eighth swept past the villages of Jiji, Tarunchio, and Salcito.  However, the heaviest German resistance was met by U-S. troops on the Fifth army's right flank, north of Venafro, and j
in the valley through which runs the Appian way. The enemy is opposing this !
move with two new German divisions,
At one point in the western sector, the village of Calabritto has been occupied by the U.S. Heavy explosions have been heard in the port of Gaeta, 12 miles further up the coast, indicating that the ' enemy may already be dynamiting supplies preparing for another withdrawal.