LATE MESSAGES

Greymouth Evening Star, 12 September 1944, Page 5

LATE MESSAGES

ITALIAN CAMPAIGN

LONDON, September 11. Heavy rain is both good and bad news for the Allied troops fightingthrough the Gothic Line, says the “Daily Express” correspondent. It is good news to the Allied soldiers who have been fighting throughout a hot, dry Summer in choking dust. These men just stood with their faces turned up and let the rain beat down on them, but the rain has slowed down the Allied advance by flooding the dried riverbeds and destroying makeshift bridges. However, the rain will not worry the Allies when they reach the Po Valley, where tanks can be deployed to advantage.

The desert air force dealt one of its heaviest blows against the Germans in Italy yesterday, when Spitfires and Mustangs wrecked nearly 1500 tons of- valuable supplies en route to the Gothic Line, says , the Exchange Telegraph Agency’s correspondent. Mediterranean Air Force Tactical planes to-day boncentrated on. supporting the Fifth Army’s operations north of Florence