ALLIES IN ITALY

Evening Post, Volume CXXXVIII, Issue 69, 19 September 1944, Page 5

ALLIES IN ITALY

CLOSE TO RiMI

(By Telegraph—Prees Associati<m~-£.o,j>yrighU Rec. noon. LONDON, Sept. 18. Canadians and Greek traops on the Adriatic coast have reached the northwest corner of Rimini airfield and are now. within a couple of miles of Rimini, says Renter's correspondent at Allied headquarters in the Mediterranean. German parachutists supported' by Tiger tanks are resisting fiercely around San Martino and on the adjacent high ground west of the: airfield.

The Eighth Army yesterday, fighting against stiff .opposition, drove well forward in the inland portion of the Adriatic corridor. They are grinding ahsad towards the Po Valley. The British made considerable .progress and captured Cerasola, a little west .of Rimini, and gained high ground .dominating a valley north-east of Cerasola. but savage fighting continues for Mount Oliyi.o, at the south-western end of the Cerasola ridge near the frontier of the republic of, San "Marino. Many prisoners were taken and heayy casualties wen? inflicted. The Rome correspondent of Ihe .Associated Press of Great Britain says: "Our massive a&'saults made little progress yesterday. Fierce fighting 'continued on a broad front today. The Fifth Army, doggedly hammering- .at the heart of the Gothic Line, repulsed a number of sjfcrong' counter-attacks and inflicted heavy .casualties." An official source stated that there is no indication that tne .enemy on the Fifth Army front inttvnds to withdraw. Paratroops are fighting fanatically, completely com v-emptuo.us of death.

LONDON, September 18.: Allied medium bombers were out' •again today. The main targets were-| German positions in the Gothic Line. They also bobbed a railway bridge in the Milan area. Heavy bombers struck at railway yards and bridges in Hungary ayi Yugoslavia. |