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...Allied onslaught. Patrols probed ahead to pinpoint enemy positions. Plane and artillery bombardment constantly softened the Jap defenses. But direct assaults had to be made against limited objectives because of the tangle and sheerness of the country. Gradually, however, the Jap was being dislodged, pressed back to the defensible peninsula of Salamaua itself...
...above the River Po, other Germans moved from Austria, from Yugoslavia, and possibly from southern Italy, which the Germans patently did not expect to hold. From the area of Udine and Venice they spread west almost to Milan. Nazi troops also concentrated in the upper Adriatic's Istrian peninsula, where the late Poet Gabriele d'Annunzio seized Fiume after World...
...Italy had a truly fresh government. It might be the beginning of a bid for a peace with terms, despite the Allied insistence on "unconditional surrender." Many an allied citizen, still troubled by Darlanism in North Africa, had reason to be troubled lest Savoyism crop up in the Italian peninsula. The U.S. State Department would not say whether it classed the House of Savoy as Fascist; neatly it put that issue up to the Allied military command in Italy...
Henceforth, even for coaches S.P. will re quire reservations, which must be made in person, in advance. (Trains on the San Francisco peninsula and between the San Francisco Bay region and Sacramento were excepted.) Tickets must be purchased before reservations can be made. Servicemen will be given preference. As a result the number of passengers will be limited on each train; many a citizen will have to stay home...
Salamaua, a tadpole-shaped peninsula, is only ten miles from Mubo. It is now scarcely tenable by the Japanese. Its occupation would bring the Allies within 21 miles of the important Jap base at Lae. At week's end Allied bombers gave Lae one of its heaviest poundings since the war began...