MORE PROGRESS MADE

Evening Post, Volume CXXXVI, Issue 106, 1 November 1943, Page 5

MORE PROGRESS MADE

Allies In Italy

(By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright;)

Kec 1 p.m. ■ .., LONDON, October 31, Despite heavy rain, the Fifth and Elghtii Armies have maids considerable progress in. Italy in the last 24 hours. ■;';■■, ' The western flank of the Eighth Army, after capuiring Molise, swung round and has now reached a position 10 miles from.; an important fork on the Isernia road. •

Units of the Eighth Army captured two villages/1000 feet up—San Massino, three miles west of Bojano and two miles south of' the Isernia road, and also San Elena, seven miles north of Bokani. They dominate to a certain extent the most important road between Bojano and Isernia. North of this bitterly-contested zone the villryje of Roccavivara, on the south bank of the Upper Trigno three miles south-west of Montefalcone, is completely in our hands. The Eighth Army, as a result of a powerful German counter-attack yesterday, yielded sanfe of the ground of the bridgehead on the extreme right flank, but military observers say that the bridgehead is quite secure and that the ground lost does not constitute an immediate threat.

Algiers radio says that General. Montgomery, on the Trigno River sector, where the-Germans are reported to have sent 25,000 men, has driven to within six miles of the road between Vanto and Isernia. An Eighth Army coastal column is threatening San Salvo.

The Fifth Army has kept up its advance along the whole front, gaining three miles in some sectors, and is now only one mile from the important railway town of Teano, lying under the Massico ridge. They captured Nocelletto, two miles south-west of Francolise, and also Ailano, north of the Volturno.

Units of the Fifth Army, advancing east of the Massico heights, seized an additional position nine miles from the road to Venafro.