ADVANCE IN ITALY
HAMPERED BY HEAVY RAIN: FIGHTING IN PERUGIA (Rec. 11 p.m.) LONDON, June 19. Heavy rain is hampering the Allied armies in Italy, but, in spite of it, they are still pushing on. Elements of the Eighth Army, after capturing Assisi, are now fighting in the suburbs of Perugia, 129 miles north-east of Rome. The retreating Germans are hastily setting fire to massed equipment, which is smouldering along the roadsides. One of the most important items of booty taken so far was a 70-ton selfpropelled Ferdinand gun, the largest of all German armoured equipment, and the first the Eighth Army has captured, Further to the west the Germans have been driven from several important places, and on the coast the Fifth Army is now 10 miles north of Grossito.
More progress has been made on the Adriatic coast, where the Eighth Army is approaching the river Tronto.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 25566, 20 June 1944, Page 5
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