15/9/1943. 2.= pm. Maurice Shillington
The fierce battle for the Salerno bridgehead
still goes on. More Allied troops are being
landed but the Germans do counterattack
more. Radio Algiers said this morning
that the position has not changed and that
a fierce battle goes on and that troops are
still being landed.
The narrow bridgehead is overlooked by
German prepared positions.
American Liberators have bombed the
marshalling yards at Pescara on the
Adriatic and also Potenza has been
bombed, which place lies between Tarente
and Naples. Mussolini according to
German reports has formed a new republican
fascist party from which it is possible
he tries to get rid of the monarchy.
The uneventful evacuation of Bryansk
which the Germans have claimed does not
seem true because yesterday night fighting
still took place in the streets. Russian
troops are across the Desna. Japanese
heavy and field artillery has fallen into
Australian hands in New Guinea. More
miners in Noths. coalfields are on strike. Their
total is 14000 men and 14 pits are closed. Pres.
Roosevelt has taken action against a Congress resolution
that married men with children are not to serve.
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