RAILWAY TO BOLOGNA

Dominion, Volume 38, Issue 1, 26 September 1944, Page 5

RAILWAY TO BOLOGNA

Cut By British MEETING STIFFER RESISTANCE (By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright.) (Received September 25, 11.20 p.m.) LONDON, September 25. The Eighth Army, having entered the gateway to the Po Valley, is new meeting very strong resistance, according to the Allied communique from Italy. British troops to the east have cut the railway to Bologna and are moving up one road leading to the city itself.. Further west, American forces striking in the northern flank of the Apennines, are also heading toward Bologna, They are still reported to be 15 air miles from ihe city. Earlier, they captured the now well-known Futa Pass. Breakthrough to Plains. The Allied armies in Italy have now almost completely written off the Gothic Line. Allied troops in the central sector in Italy have broken right through to the northern plains, states a British United Press correspondent at Allied headquarters. Fifth Army units, exploiting the break-through north of Florence, are sweeping the Germans before them as

they pour down the lower northern slopes of the Apennines. . German casualties in prisoners alone since the Allied offensive began a month ago total more than 10,000. Eighth Army troops captured more than 8000. The Germans on the Adriatic have not started a wholesale withdrawal, but they are lighting bitterly as they are pressed back. The Berlin radio commentator, Praegner, states that a German platoou took prisoner the whole army of the State of San Marino, which, after British pressure, declared war against Germany.