RAIL TRAFFIC HALTED
Precision Bombing Of Italy (By 'J'elegrupii . res- .i-Mi —Copyright.) (Received August 8, 9 p.m.) LONDON, August 7. Photographic reconnaissance shows that Allied precision raids against key railway •junctions in Italy have, cut all the major arteries of the railway system feeding the .southern. half of the country. It is unlikely that more than a very small trickle of traffic is getting through. The latest photographs show the horoughness of the destruction to all the main and most, of -the secondary northsouth lines. The important junction of Bologna is not in action. No traffic has passed through the Vittoria yards at Rome since the recent shattering raid. All lines near Foggia are cut. It was previously possible to by-pass Naples through Foggia. The destruction of the Salerno and Battipaglia junctions has corked the bottleneck southward. The Messina and San Giovanni railheads are also out ot action.
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Dominion, Volume 36, Issue 269, 9 August 1943, Page 5
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