NAZI WITHDRAWAL

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXI, Issue 21400, 10 May 1944, Page 3

NAZI WITHDRAWAL

ADRIATIC FRONT EIGHTH ARMY’S GAIN WEATHER LIMITS RAIDS (11 a .m.) LONDON, May 9. Quickly following up the German withdrawal in the thinly-held Maiella mountains in Italy, Eighth Army forces have taken up new forward oositions, says Reuter’s correspondent at Allied Headquarters. The German withdrawal occurred over the weekend. In the area are the villages of Palena and Lettopalena, about 2 i miles from the Adriatic coast. The advancing Eighth Army troops, who are hampered by demolitions, have not made contact with the enemy who blew up bridges, houses and tunnels in the area. . It was quieter yesterdayin the uppet Garigliano Valley after week-end activity while patrol clashes occulted in the lower Garigliano Valley, southwest of Castelforte. It was generally ouiet in the Anzio. beach-head. Poor visibility in the target areas forced the cancellation of missions bv heavy and medium bombers yesterdav, writes a Naples correspondent.* but there was some fighter activitv. Light units bombed ■ and strafed the highway north of Rome, destroying 32 motor vehicles and two tank-carriers and damaging .L trucks and a third tank-carrier. A motor launch and a barge were sunk in the Tiber River. Spitfires bombed and demolished the German headquarters at Srebic on the Peljesal: Peninsula in Yugoslavia in the course of activity across the Adriatic.