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S Net I AW W r H 4 J Anzic Anzil Anzio S i O 5 s I Associated Frees lIlal mop msp C of Allied Beachhead Area Detailed map loc locates te Nettuno where Fifth army forces o ces landed south of Rome the way and vital ital railroads Germany Reports Loss of Town 22 Miles Miles' From Rome Fierce Drive by Fifth Army in South Surges Surges' Back Across R pido River tarts Starts Wedging Nazis in Tight Pock Pocket t LONDON Jan 25 TV jp-BerUn jp Berlin radio declared Tuesday that that Velletri on the thc way nay ay 22 miles mUes southeast of Borne mc had been destroyed and indicated t the e allies had captured the town Velletri Is III about bout 18 miles northeast of Nettuno ALLIED HE HEADQUARTERS Algiers Jan 25 UP UP Allied invasion troops have driven 12 miles into the German flank 28 miles south of Rome threatening rupt rupture re of the vital Appia way which advance patrols may already have crossed it was was' reve revealed led officially Tuesday v Striking inland eight miles i ia in th tha ina a single day against still aWl light German resistance the American and British forces were sending spearheads shooting out in all ali dIrections di directions directions dI- dI to shred the arterial transport lines to the nine German divisions on the main Fifth army anny front Pile driver blows by Lieutenant General Gener l Mark W. W Clarks Clark's army along th the Garigliano blunted the intense German Gennan counterattacks counterattack there Utere American shock troops again seized th the initiative t to drive back across across the river while British and French units on each side s scored red slight alight ga gains t tRacing Racing against the allied drive eastward from the 10 beachhead beachhead beach beach- head th the Germans were were pulling back from the Garigliano front frontin in the strength of at several ever l 1 battle groups to defend Rome against the wedging of ot its 8 southern defenses The draining of Marshal Marsh Albert K th t. t cm cm front t together g ther with U the e broadside broadside broad bread side of allied counterattacks broke brok the backbone of ot the wide offensive in the Cassino Garigliano sectors y yA 4 Say Road Cut A German said allied forces in t the h a Nettuno beachhead attacked advanced outposts out out- pos posts at several points but were driven drive off oct The Cairo radio re reported reported reported re- re ported that the thc allies had cut the way Indirect t reports report through S Stockholm said the the allies al allies allies al- al lies had captured 14 Ji miles east of Nettuno and four miles from the way The Swiss radio quoted a Bait Barl broadcast as saying the e allies had driven 18 miles mUes inland to the Le- Le m mountains well beyond the way An Algiers dispatch to London said th the allies were only 20 miles from Rome The Geneva newspaper La Suisse said aid the fascist faa fas cist dat press had reported the fhe allied occupation of ot the Ute entire Italian coast from Nettuno to the mouth of ot the Tiber and that Ostia three miles mUes inland from the river mouth was threatened Drive e Ahead Rapidly United States state and British veterans veter ans aria spearheading the from the Nettuno foothold were driving rapidly against the network of communications stretching south- south Continued on Pare Pace Two C Column mn FIves r Berlin Says Allies Capture Town on Way contInued from Page Pac One of eastward from Rome The way ro roughly paralleled by by the coastal railroad was the first objective objective ob ob- ob- ob lay the Via Ca- Ca silina second of ot the trunk highways highways highways high high- ways linking the German defenders defend defend- ers of of Rome Home and the Garigliano front Although the allied beachhead still had n not t been delineated cally it was believed to extend far north of or captured N and neighboring Anzio and certainly I miles below those points Bouncing back from the impact of ot the intense German counteroffensive counter of on the southern front the American British and French forces mounted their own attacks which wiped out m most t of ot the limited urn lim I nazi hazi gains Attack Slackens Both the number and the weight of the German blows had fallen off oft greatly up to noon Monday amidst indications that the enemy assault might have been designed as a covering action for a withdrawal withdrawal with with- d awal to meet the fast breaking threat to the north The costliness of the now nullified led fled effort by the Germans was Indicated by e estimates that the nazI infantry division lost 50 per cent of ot its combat strength An allied veteran of World war said that that that-in in a mile six stretch between Minturno and Castelforte he saw far more dead Germans than he saw in the battle of ot the Somme At At the center of the Fifth army's southern front three miles south of Cassino American patrols patrols patrols pa pa- again forced the under under un un- un- un der a a. constant hall hail of German fire It n was there that they had been thrown back across the river from the tho beachhead they seized seize Saturday Saturday Saturday Satur Satur- day night British Advance ance Along the lower Garigliano British h troops expanded their bridgehead d to a lim and made short advances in n the vicinity vicinity vicinity vicin vicin- ity of oj the Damiano mountains after the German pressure died down Dispatches from American correspondents correspondents correspondents cor cor- respondents who accompanied the invaders reported that the Germans Germans Ger Ger- mans had launched counterattacks counterattacks' with reinforcements rushed down from Rome in the vicinity of ot an an important communications center on a highway below Rome The Germans attacked at sev zev- era eral points along a a. canal dispatches dis- dis patches said and nd gained d some sone temporary successes in a see saw battle involving tanks artillery and in infantry Can try Two bridges were said Baid to have changed change hands several sev sev- eral cral times The counterattacks appeared m more ore In the nature of the feelers to ascertain allied strength th thin than n a a full fledged counter coun- coun ter Allied headquarters confirmed belatedly that th the Invasion forces to the north had captured Anzio i 33 miles nines south of or Rome and one of ot the main ports for tor the capital The inland nd push reached the 12 mile mlle m mark r at noon floon Mo day taking the main beachhead ports of ot Anzio and Nettuno one and three three-q three ar- ar tors miles to the cast east entirely out of ot German shelling range except for the nazi millimeter rifle which can shoot about 15 miles The coastal side of of th the thC beach beachhead beachhead head was was revealed officially lly to torun run several mines north and south of ot I Anzio S An Italian border dispatch to the Stockholm newspaper 5 a S jr c said the allied f forces c chad had captured 14 11 miles east of ot lie Nettuno uno and about abolt four from the way and cut the theR theR R Terracina me-Terracina railway Radio Bari Bad voice of the Badoglio Badoglio Ba Ba- doglio government asserted that Italian patriots had cut at least temporarily the Rome Rome-Cassino railroad main German communications line between Rome and the Gustav line A nazi Paris broadcast said several contingents of Abyssinian troops had landed in Italy V |
