PROGRESS IN ITALY

Grey River Argus, 3 July 1944, Page 5

PROGRESS IN ITALY

BY ALLIED ARMIES

Aid from Italian Patriots

(Rec. 7.30.) LONDON, JL, The Exchange Telegraph Age 1 Algiers correspondent says: A - -having bemg held for av the Chient River, Eighth . vanced troops reached the vl^ l y £ Civitanova railway, five miles ea of Macerata. Enemy forces havei now cleared from Magmone. Advanced Allied elements reached an °’ miles west of Perugia. Fifth Army infantry, after pressing back Germans in the Cecina area, reached a position three miles north-east or the town. Further ‘ inland, Fifth Army tanks captured Montecerboli on the t

road to Pomarance. A Reuter’s correspondent at Alueu Headquarters in Italy, says: A combat team, comprising American ..soldiers of Japanese origin is fighting with the Fifth Army. ■- General Alexander, in a special message, which was broadcast over the Algiers radio, said: “Patriots of all Italy! For the next week, starting from to-day, apart from your ordinary activities, make all efforts to destroy the enemy’s signalling system and communications.” I Algiers radio has revealed - that Italian patriots have contributed to the liberation of four hundred localities in Italy. An Associated Press of America correspondent at Rome stated: A Beautiful young American actress who speaks German with the slightest trace of American accent, is beingused as a medium for the transmission of a subtle form of propaganda among the German troops in Italy. She originally was imported b-y the Americans to entertain Allied troops. Thousands of her photographs are now being shot by cannon into the German lines, and a Fifth Army radio unit relays her. enticing voice to the enemy. She has been renamed “Toni from America.” The actress does not resort to anything so clumsy as ridiculing the German leaders. She gives the names of Germans recently' captured. She perhaps quotes also an item from a German newspaper illustrating the food shortages in Germany. Allied intelligence officers are satisfied from reports that Germans are listening to her avidly. FLORENCE OPEN CITY. (Rec. 9.45.) LONDON, July 1. Berlin radio announced that Hitler has declared Florence to be an open city, so that its irreplaceable -treasures can be preserved. (Res. 1.5) LONDON,- July- 2. An Allied communique ' from Italy on Sunday stated: Allied forces made advances on a long front. Fifth Army troops crossed the: Cecina River on a broad front, j and continued to advance northwards. Cecilia was by-passed. Further; progress was made west of Siena. Eighth Army forces, driving enemy forces northwards east and west of Lake Trasimeno, occupied Torrita and Monte Piezzio, six miles north of Perugia, also Valfabrica. Eighth Army troops on the Adriatic section crossed the Potenz River in many places, and occupied Macerat . and Recanati. A Reuter’s correspondent with the Fifth Army Army states: Germans recently killed 50 Italian civilians and ten partisans in a small village, Duardistallo, as a reprisal foil death of six German soldiers, vJM were found in the outskirts village. An A.M.G O.T. offici?J®M| nessed the burial of the was told that Germans house to house, battered and shot everyone in tims included children, aged people. It was similar atrocity occurredMßHMH| 1943, when Germans miM|||B||g||l a score of civilians in Caiezo. ■BBMBbMm