Fresh Troops Pour Into Bitter Salerno Battle
Allied forces fend off fierce German counterattacks at the Salerno bridgehead in Italy but yield some ground at night to straighten lines. New reinforcements arrive as heavy air attacks and naval guns pound the front from Salerno to Agropoli. Capri island is occupied by Allied forces, while Taranto area sees liberation of prisoners as naval bombardment and ground pressure tighten the fight.
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Noland Norgaard
Associated Press
North Africa
Salerno
Italy
Mark W. Clark
5th Army
Agropoli
8th Army
Belvedere
northwest African air force
London
1st Army tank brigade
Salerno-Agropoli
Capri island
United States
Cosenza
Taranto
Gioia
CAPRI
Royal
L. S B. Shapiro
Montreal Gazette
5th Army headquarters
Eighth Army
Germany
Poland
Belgium
France
enong
Sicilian banks reopen under Allied military authority
Allied government in North Africa announced Sicily banks reopen with special currency. Depositors may withdraw up to 5,000 lire, 50 dollars, with no bank runs. Authorities plan to overhaul price decrees and rationing to curb the black market and pursue industrial rehabilitation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
ALLIED
North Africa
Sicily
AMG
Coyote Attack on Mountain Sheep Lamb Reported in Montana
A Portland man visiting relatives in Ural, Montana, watched a coyote kill a mountain sheep lamb after chasing it from a slope. The incident ended with the lamb dead and the coyote not feeding. The note adds a brief account of similar known coyotes’ behavior and other wildlife notes.
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Frank Allen
Portland
Ore
Allen
Ben Graham
Ural
Montana
CC neste
Russ Drive Rocks Nazi Dnieper Defences 9th Army On Move Today
Reports from Stockholm via Ankara claimed Britain's 9th Army under Lt Gen W H Holmes was on the move from Middle East bases toward an unknown destination. The dispatch coincided with Balkan unrest, guerrilla gains in Yugoslavia, and clashes between German and Italian forces in the Dodecanese. Algiers radio forecast imminent military developments as Italy's navy surrender opens the Mediterranean.
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LONDON
C.P
Stockholm
Ankara
Balkans
Dodecanese
Algiers
Associated Press
Mediterranean
Europe
9th
Syria
Transjordania
Rhodes
Crete
YUGOSLAVIA
Adriatic sea
Italy
Slovenia
Serbia
Bosnia
ROMANIA
Antonescu
Nazis Guard St Peter's Square In Vatican City
German radio quoted by the BBC says para chute troops with anti-tank guns guard St Peter's Square to bar entry into Vatican City. The Lateran treaty is cited to justify open use by Italian police, with German soldiers replacing them. The Office of War Information notes a Berlin broadcast claims Swiss guards posted behind the German soldiers at Vatican entrances.
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NEW YORK
BBC
ita
Rome
St Peter's square
Vatican city
St. Peter's Square
Vatican
St Peter’s square
Office of War Information
Berli
United States
OWT
Mussolini's Exit In Ambulance Ends Fascist Era
AP dispatch from Salerno recounts Benito Mussolini being taken into custody by carabinieri and transported in an ambulance after his July 25 capture. His son-in-law Galeazzo Ciano faced house arrest in Rome, while Mussolini lingered as a diminished symbol of Fascism amid political chaos and Fascist leadership defections.
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DON WHITEHEAD
Associated Press
SALERNO
Italy
Benito Mussolini
Tl Duce
Galeazzo Ciano
Rome
Fdda
Mussolini
carabinieri
Robert Farinacci
Battle Report from Italian Front EndsWith Doubt and Resolve
War dispatch describes 5th Army in Italy facing counterattacks after landings. Correspondents reveal tense moments near enemy armor and stubborn defense as Allied beachhead remains intact despite fierce fighting and nerve racking near-misses with German Mark IV tanks.
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STH
ITALY
Bigger Role For Reserve
Canada’s reserve army is promoted to a more important role after the decision to reduce and reorganize the three divisions of the active army in Canada. The reserve, about 100,100 part time soldiers with a core of full time staff, has just completed a summer camp showing a high level of efficiency for a large non permanent force. The question of slackening reserve activity amid active force reductions has no official answer yet but is expected to be no.
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FRANK FLAHERTY
OTTAWA
C.P
Canada
Defence
Ralston
Japs Urge Peace Terms On Fighting China
Washington report cites Chinese foreign minister Soong saying Japan sends peace proposals that grow more liberal as pressure increases. Soong claims Tokyo would quit China if China leaves the United Nations to join Japan in a racial war against whites. he notes no policy group backs the idea.
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WASHINGTON
China
Japan
Soong
Manchuria
Pormosa
United Nations
Pear
Harker
West Needs Harvesters Amid Harvest Shortage
Western Canada faces an urgent harvest drive as wet weather delays crops and reinforcements are sought. Wages range from four to four fifty a day for field workers while appeals go out to eastern provinces to supply farm commandos from cities and towns for part time farm and industrial work. Strong entitites include Western Canada, Saskatchewan, Ontario, and Canada.
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WINNIPEG
Canada
Canaadt
Praine
Ontario
Saskatchewan
Army to reach seven million seven hundred thousand strong
Lieutenant General Joseph T. McNarney told Senators that an army of 7,700,000 is the minimum force required for upcoming tasks and warned reductions would force changes in U.S. strategic commitments. He opened a procession of high officials discussing future defense needs.
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WASHINGTON
Joseph I. McNarney
United States
MacNarney
Eight Thousand Italian Troops Battle Nazis Near Trento
United Nations radio reported 8,010 Italian troops clashed with German forces for three hours at Trento in northeastern Italy near the Swiss border. The dispatch also mentioned railway workers striking in Milan Genoa and Bologna.
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LONDON
United Nations
Algiers
Trento
Italy
Moving North On Smolensk As Ned Army Advances
London reports the Ned army summer offensive pushes along a broad front from the Sea of Azov to Bryansk. Soviet dispatches say the drive is tracing German control on the Dnieper River valley and threatens the Dnieperspetrovsk power hub.
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LONDON
Sea of Agey
Bryansk
Dnieper River
Dnieperspetrovsk
Russian forces seize Nezhit on key Kiev rail line
London reports Moscow announces Soviet troops captured Nezhit 89 miles northeast of Kiev on the Kiev Kursk main line. The city’s fall opens the way for a likely drive to breach German middle Dnieper defenses near the Ukrainian capital. The Telegram order, signed by Premier Stalin, was broadcast by Moscow radio.
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LONDON
C.P
Nezhit
Kiev-Kursk
Kiev
Moscow
Dnieper
Ukraine
Joseph Stalin
monitor
Germans retreat as Soviet drive tightens in Russia
A Soviet bulletin says Germans are retreating along the entire frontline and abandoning towns and war materiel under a relentless Soviet assault. Moscow ignores a German admission of Bryansk evacuation while Gen Popov’s motorized columns control the area. Red forces attack in and around the city after severing five rail lines and push toward the Smolensk region.
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aroe
Moscow
Bryansk
WM. M. Popov
Red army
Smolemek salient
Berlin
Stalin
More Progress On Russ Parley
Washington reports progress in the Anglo American Russian WB conference. President Roosevelt spoke at a press conference noting earlier remarks about expected progress within 24 to 48 hours. When pressed for specifics he offered a quip about dates and places rather than details.
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WASHINGTON
Roosevelt
Grocery Heist Chronology Confusingly Reported in Los Angeles
An unclear account from Los Angeles on September 15 outlines a grocery store robbery. The text describes a suspect selecting items, approaching the register with a gun, demanding cash, and leaving with money and groceries. The report repeats fragments and lacks coherent details of date, location, or suspect.
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LOS ANGELES
mm gedale
Allied Bombers Raid Paris Airfields in Major Strike
US heavy bombers and Marauders renewed attacks on German air facilities in France with a Paris strike by heavy bombers and other raids on air fields across the country. Berlin claims Rhodes fortifications fallen to Germans. August raid casualties in Britain total 272 with 168 dead or missing and 164 injured. In PEI elections six Liberals and two Conservatives lead in eight ridings. Finland focuses on peace terms with Russia as Soviet advances jeopardize terms.
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PARIS
LONDON
C.P
United States
France
BERLIN
DODECANESE
Rhodes
BRITAIN
C.P. Cable
Pritain
CHARLOTTETOWN
Frinze Edward Island
STOCKHOLM
Russia
Finland
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Sele
Calore
ISLE OF CAPRI
Great Falls
9th Army
Balkan
Musso
I Duce
DUCE
WILLIAM STONEMAN
Chicago Daily News
BEACHHEAD
HERBERT L MATTHEWS
New York Times
United States press
West
GEORGE FINLAY
EAST RESPONDING
U.S. Army
Smolensk
Russ Parley
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