40 MILES FROM ROME

Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 216, 9 June 1944, Page 5

40 MILES FROM ROME

Fifth Army Takes Civita Vecchia SUBIACO FALLS LONDON, June 8. Fifth Army troops moving forward beyond Rome have captured Civita Vecchia, about 40 miles north-west of the capitai. A correspondent says tliat the town fell after comparatively slight resistance and spearheads are now pushing furtliei? ahead. Twenty miles inland Allied infan try has reached Bracchiano, on Lake Bracchiano, and some reports say the town has fallen. . . North-east of Rome the Eighth Arm) has captured Subiaco, which was strongly defended by the Germans. (By Telegraph.—tress Assn. —Copyright.) LONDON, June 7. Paris radio reports that the British and Americans launched fresh and powerful attacks, supported by heavy artillery, in the Tivoli area, on the Rome-Pescarn correspondent at advanced Allied headquarters says that.the Fittli Army has now taken more than 18.00 v prisoners. Allied infantry which is driving northward is now within five miles of Lake Bracciano. Other ’Allied forces are well beyond Tivoli. The Eighth Army is meeting the strongest _ resistance, but is generally continuing its; northward push through the mountains, The Germans are still strongly. holding Subiaco as a rearguard strongpoint The enemy opposition is varying from ferocious resistance to timid surrender of small parties. Allied Battle Casualties. The Allied battle casualties over th* whole of the present campaign are stared to be “on a considerably lower scale than was expected.” . Berlin radio’s commentator, Captain Sertorius, stated that the Allies have made two breaches of the German rearguard screen moving up from Rome. He added that the German retreat continues according to plan, “though our detached rearguards are engaged in furious struggles against the enemy, who is in hot pursuit, specially from the Rome area. “The enemy has made one deep breach west of Rome on either side of the coastal road,” Sertorius said. “The other penetration is of lesser proportions and is along the main arteries leading north of Rome. Fighting to seal off the penetrations is going on.” ’ Sertorius added: “The enemy apparently means to make his biggest drive north and not west of Rome, striving to break through at breakneck speed to the upper Tiber Valley and the Terni-Spoleto area.”

NEW ALLIED LANDING Axis Expectations

LONDON, June 7. The British United Press correspondent at Berne quotes a report from Milan that a large Italian fleet is. cruising off Genoa, and an Allied landing on the Ligurian coast of north-western Italy is expected hourly.