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Show 'Invasion News Takes Lead Since June 6 The day before the cross-channel invasion of Western Europe began, there were banner headlines head-lines in the newspapers of the United States telling: "Allies Pursue Pur-sue Fleeing Germans Beyond Rome; Populace Hails Liberators; King Yields Rule." Since that time, the Allied armies arm-ies In Italy have been sweeping ahead on a 7-mile front, smashing German resistance and apparently apparent-ly preventing the retreating Germans Ger-mans from re-forming their lines to make a stand. This development in Italy would have been the "big news" of the war except for the beginning of the attack upon the Germans in Prance. The result is that the Italian, campaign is pushed aside as newspapers and radios give almost their complete facilities to the news of the invasion. i |