TACTICAL SUCCESS FOR ALLIES

Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 205, 27 May 1944, Page 7

TACTICAL SUCCESS FOR ALLIES

German Admission LONDON, May 25. „ The German news agency says: “Heavy fighting on the Italian front resulted in German troops last, evening evacuating the coastal sector between the Nettuno beach-head and the Tyrrhenian flank of the southern front. They withdrew to new lines skirting the mountains northeast of the Appian Way. Fighting was particularly heavy in the PontecorvoI’iedimonte area. The German lines on this sector were withdrawn last evening to the Melfa sector.” Berlin radio admitted today, that the Pontine Marshes are now in Allied hands, and added: “Our withdrawal from the Liri Valley to the Melfa sector was accompanied by exceptionally bloody fighting. which is still raging.” • 2?he Berlin radio commentator Hallensleben. said: “It must lie admitted that the British and the Americans have gained a remarkable tactical success in uniting the beach-head troops with those from the south.” Today’s Gorman communique states: “The great defensive battle in Italy is growing in intensity because of the enemy's increased use of tank formations.” Tlie communique claims that a number of beach-head attacks were repelled, but says: “Our troops in the Liltoria area, acting under orders, retired nort.h-east-wtird Io the mountain slopes to link up with the German forces withdrawn northward from tlie Terracina sector.”