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CAPTURE OF CERVARO LONDOxN', Jan. 11.-The Allies on the Fifth Army front have captured Cer- . varo. The National Broadcasting System’s Algiers correspondent says the enemy yesterday put up stiff rc'sistbut it Until, when the final assault was launched, our troops took the town without opposition. Preceding the capture of Cervaro Americans captured the 1700-foot Monte Dipiperni. north-east of Cervaro. When they first attacked this morning they met very stiff resistance and captured a number but when the final assault was ordered in the afternoon, the Germans had gone. British units of the Fifth Army advanced two miles to capture Monte Ceci.ro, five miles south-east of Cassino. Algiers radip .- tat.es that General von Kesselring. under increased Allied pressure* has withdrawn the bulk of his forces from advanced positions around Cassina in the past 24 hours. I i
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 79, 12 January 1944, Page 6
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