8TH ARMY FORCES.

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXI, Issue 21581, 7 December 1944, Page 5

BTH ARMY FORCES.

FOOTHOLD IN HILLS ' NEW U.S. COMMANDER (11 a.m.) LONDON, Dec. C. The eighth Army forces which have driven across the Lamone River south o i Faenza ancl established a wide brideehead have also gamed a foothold m the hills beyond the river and captured several leatureSj says the Exchange and Telegraph Agency s correspondent in Rome. Other forces nave cleared the whole of the GodoKavenna road and occupied San Michele. Paingapane, nearly two nines north-west of San Michele, was also captured. The Associated Press correspondent in Rome reports that LieutenantGeneral L. K. Truscott, of the United States Sixth Army Corps, is succeeding General Marie Clam as commander of the Fifth Army. "Die Eighth Army s drive northwards between ‘ the Montone and Lamone Rivers culminated in the capture ot the important city and harbour ol Ravenna, states an Allied communique. Other Eighth Army troops pushing westward from Godo are engaged in heavy fighting on the line of the Lamone River. The British and Poles south of Faenza crossed the Lamone River on a wide front against strong opposition and established a firm bridgehead. . , The Indians of the Fifth Army s right flank have further progressed. The British further to the left captured Monte Penzola, commanding the lateral road to Imola.