QUIET IN ITALY
High Ground Occupied
LONDON, August 17.
Eighth Army troops iu Florence continue to clear the city of enemy elements and snipers to enable supplies to be delivered to the local population, states an Allied communique from Italy. Though there is no major change in our disposition on the front, our advanced troops in the mountains along the Tiber Valley now occupy a number of high points which till lately were held by the enemy.
Our reconnaissance patrols have been active on the Arno from Florence to the sea. A number of clashes occurred.
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Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 277, 19 August 1944, Page 7
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