ALL CUT OFF

Evening Post, Volume CXXXIX, Issue 100, 30 April 1945, Page 5

ALL CUT OFF

Enemy in North-west Italy Rec. 11.20 a.m: LONDON, April 29. "All the enemy in north-western Italy~ have now been cut off," says the Exchange Telegraph agency's correspondent at Allied head-, quarters. "There is no road of any use to the Germans in the threemile gap between^the Swiss frontier and our last reported positions. Mountain division troops of the sth Army in the Alps north of Lake Garda are threatening Trento, only , 70 miles south of the Brenner Pass. No more prepared positions face the Bth Army."

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pressed his hope for a peace providing for Italy's Christian aspirations. ■ He reaffirmed the Church's policy to combat social doctrines contrary to Christian principles, and declared that the Church supported the desires of the working class "in limits which:'respected the rights of other-classes. ,

The Ministry of Information in Rome, reporting on the situation resulting from the risings in northern Italy, says that all power stations in the Magra and Varaita Valleys were saved, by, partisans. '

Three hundred, of the enemy are* still in Turin, and larger forces are, on the outskirts. • .

General Eberling surrendered to partisans _in Bergamo. The town is quiet and orderly, and nothing has been damaged except the airfields.-

The Germans in Mantua surrendered and partisans remained in "control of the town1 until the Allies arrived. All the installations, in the large areas ot Aosta and Liguria have been saved. Patriots control a large area between! Venice and the Po River.

Pilots over Italy report that whita flags are flying in the Padua area and? that people in the streets are waving; the Italian national colours.

A Mediterranean naval communique* says that a party from an advanced naval port reached Genoa on Friday evening and found' the inner harbour and approaches heavily mined.. Many, of the jetties are undamaged, and cranes and gantries are still standing. The port is now being surveyed pre-« paratbry to its opening. Minesweepers are engaged clearing channels from Vfereggia to the Gulf of Spezia ; afid Genoa. '- -:v;i :■-.:. ::•'.• T The Exchange Telegraph agency's Rome correspondent says that messages received from Milan state that the city find orovinjce have been without bread for the past 24 hours. Milan > radio broadcast an appeal to the Allies fofl immediate aid.