IN BOLOGNA AREA

Evening Star, Issue 25301, 9 October 1944, Page 5

IN BOLOGNA AREA

STUBBORN ENEMY RESISTANCE CITY STILL TWELVE MILES AWAY (Rec. 11.30 a.m.) LONDON, Oct. 8. The Allies are now shelling the highway between Rimini and Bologna at a point about 14 miles south-east of Bologna, states (Reuter's correspondent at Allied headquarters in. Italy. Americans of the Fifth Army are fighting down the mountain side, and have driven within 10 miles of this highway. They are moving along the valley which load's to Castel San Pietro. German resistance at all points on the Allies' assault arc remains extremely stubborn, and most of the advanced units are still 12 miles from Bologna. The arc extends from a point on the Prato-Bologna highway, about 15 miles from Bologna, and runs two miles north from Loaino, on the FlorenceBologna road, thence to the highway between Rimini and Bologna, at a point about 15 miles from Bologna, where the British are at present fighting to capture a height. • Indians' of the _ Eighth Army who crossed the Piumicino River now constitute a new threat to Cesena. The weather is bad on all sectors of the Italian front. Encirclement threatens the German forces opposing the South Africans advancing along the. Prato-Bologna road, reports a Rome correspondent. j, The Americans in the central sector, striking west of Highway 65, cut the Patro highway, five miles south of San Biola. The Germans are further menaced by an advance of two miles on the West Prato highway by the South Africans, whOj pressing north at Monte Vigese, seized Collina and Vimignauo, five miles south of Vertago. These moves' have established penetration of the Bologna defences on a 13mile front, east to west, across Highway 65, and about 13 miles south of Bologna. In the Adriatic sector, British troops crossed the upper reaches of the Fiumicirio River, capturing Monte Farneto, eight miles south of Cesena.