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...Japanese were also ready with a new Nanking puppet: Chen Kung-po, 54, Columbia University alumnus, ex-president of the Nanking Legislative Yuan...
...week Allied Commander in Chief General Sir Harold R. L. G. Alexander conceded that the campaign was stuck. In his first interview in six months, quiet, expert Alexander agreed that the Gothic Line break in September was a failure: the autumn rains had bogged down the drive before the Po Valley was conquered. Said the General...
Facing the Winter. The truth was that with the arrival of the autumnal equinox no more prolonged periods of good fighting weather could be expected. In Italy there was less talk of "annihilating" the German Army, a sober realization that no magic carpet would take the Allies to the Po River. Now it was a battle of roads. The prospect of at least part of a second winter in Italy was gradually becoming a reality...
...Germans lost 10,000 prisoners. Five of their divisions were badly mauled. The Po River offered a possible defense line, but rivers through broad plains do not compare in strength with mountains, especially if the attacker has overwhelming air power. For Field Marshal Albert Kesselring the end of his long, skillful campaign in Italy was now in sight. The only possible salvage still open to him was to withdraw his small army successfully to the fierce crags of the Dolomites, which form a better defense line than any he has held heretofore. There, on the frontier, he should be able...
...Allied Fifth and Eighth Armies -including British, Canadians, Poles, Greeks, Indians, Palestinians, Brazilians, French, Tunisians. Senegalese, and U.S. (white, Negro and Nisei) troops-were making headway. If Rimini falls, the way will lie open into the Po valley and the Gothic Line will be flanked. Last week in the course of this fighting, another nation was precipitated, almost unnoticed, into the abyss...