NO GENERAL FRONT

Evening Star, Issue 25469, 27 April 1945, Page 5

NO GENERAL FRONT

6ERMANS BROKEN IN ITALY. FIFTH ARMY TAKES VERONA fßec. 1.15 p.m.) LONDON, April 26. Fifth Army forces, sweeping past Mantua, have taptured the great communications centre of Verona, and have also taken Reggio and Parma. Eighth Army troops now line the Po River along almost the entire front. The Germans east of Ferrara retreated so hastily that they abandoned at least 1.000 motor' vehicles,, reports Reuter's correspondent at Allied headquarters in Italy. It is officially stated that the Germans are falling back on the main defence line north of the Po River, known as the Venetian or Adige Line, which runs north-east of the Adige River to a point 20 miles itiland, •where it skirts the Euganian Hills that stand isolated in the great plain south of Vicenza.

The Exchange Telegraph correspondent says there is no longer any general front in Italy.

Fifth Army troops are meeting scant opposition in their thrust beyond the Po IRiver.

To-day's Allied communique states that the Fifth and Eighth Armies are rapidly exploiting northwards from their bridgeheads across the Po River. Fifth Army units on the Ligurian coast advanced north-west of Spezia. The Exchange Telegraph says French troops fighting in the Maritime Alps crossed the Italian" frontier north of Nice on a front two miles wide and live miles deep.