BRIDGEHEAD NOW TEN MILES

Dominion, Volume 38, Issue 4, 29 September 1944, Page 5

BRIDGEHEAD NOW TEN MILES

Advance Over Rubicon EIGHTH ARMY KEEPS GOING (Received September 28, 11.30 p.m.) LONDON, September 28. A solid bridgehead over the Rubicon has now been established by British and Dominion troops of the Eighth Army, on the Adriatic sector. The bridgehead is reported to be 10 miles wide and two miles deep. On the coast the town of Bellaria has been, captured. Other troops are closing in on a town 10 miles north of Rimini on the main Rimini-Bologna road. , In the central sector, Fifth Army troops have kept up their unrelenting pressure and at some points have advanced up to two miles. One report places them at 22 miles south of 80lThe Germans in a ferocious counterattack, regardless of losses, have driven the American Fifth Army troops from the western spur of Monte Lafine, 19 miles south of Bologna, but the Americans have not lost control of the mam Lafine mass. Troops of the Fifth Army north-west of Firenzuola have captured the 4000-feet Monte Beni and also the southern slopes of Monte Freddi, over* looking the'direct Florence-Bologna road*