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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 79, 27 May 1944, Page 6

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bTEADY POLLING There Was a steady stream of voters at city booths tins morning and by ] p.m, more 1 electors than usual had voted up to that time. PARENTS REPRESENTATION ON COLLEGE GOVERNORS Lady B: Scott and Dr. W. D. S. •1r.1.0. ton v or.- the : u.cesitul candidates in the election for two parents’ representatives on the Nelson College Council of- Governors. GERMAN WITHDRAWAL IN if ALY London, May 26.—The Fifth' Army to-day captured Cori and also Sangiovauni -'on the southern edge o£ the Liri Valley). The Eighth Army captured Roccasecca and Montecairo. The German News Agency states that fresh Allied divisions are likely to soon appear on the battlefield, apd . hare up in the next few days. General von KesseLring this afternoon appeared to be giving lip the Liri Valley and withdrawing his main forces north of Sangiovanni, says a British United Press correspondent. Inj .-peed power Canadian armoured thrust through Liri Valley obviously bev.:icered Germans whose genius o - u-gan .-atibn s« -in- to have .tv... led them OVANG PROP ABLY b ALLEN Chungking. May 26 —Radio contact with Loyang was broken yesterday and a Chinese Army spokesman says the City has probably [alien. SUNK FASTER THAN BUILT rmral Bellinger, Commander oi the t nan submarines arc being sunk faster than ?can be built. 1000-PLANE RAIDS FOR .TAPS Washington, May 26 The United Str.'t • h r ; 65 Carrier, on active service and the air li- t will so on total 3770 planes, :ain the Assistant Secretary for the Nay.-, Mr A I Gates. He added; I can assure the .Topan-ise that 1000-plane, raid, from are only the beginning."