NEAR RENO RIVER

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 21605, 6 January 1945, Page 4

NEAR RENO RIVER

“EIGHTH” IN ITALY CANADIANS ON CANAL FEVERED NAZI COUNTERS (10 a.m.) LONDON. Jan. 5. The Eighth Army north-west of Ravenna has further progressed against fierce opposition, saycs an Allied Headquarters communique from Italy. Canadian forces have readied the Canale Bonifica. which is one mile south of the Reno River. Strong counter-attacks were repulsed with heavy losses to the enemy. , , Good progress was made north oi Faenza, where Eighth Army troops have greatly reduced the German pocket east of the Senio River. Active patrolling lias continued on the Fifth Army front. Canadian armour and infantry, advancing towards the Valii di Cimncchio lagoon, hav e now reached a point one mile south of the Reno River, Field-Marshal von KesseJring’s last major water-barrier guarding his right flank at Bologna, says Reuter’s Rome correspondent. , The Canadians are now within -• miles of San Alberto, on the southern shore of the lagoon, and have captured intact an important canal bridge. The Germans strongly counter-attacked from positions on the Senio River, north-east of Allon - sine, but were repulsed. The Canadian.l; have established a new one-mile-wide bridgehead across the Canale Naviglio, five miles northeast of Faenza.