Evening star., 1943-11-01
Fifth Army Takes Road Center;
Reds Step Up Crimeo Pressure
British Also Drive On;
II Towns Added
To Allied Bag
MAP on Page AIS J
BY the Associated Press.

By The Associated Press
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, AL
gierS, Nov. 1.-The Allied 5th
Army seized Teano, control point
to important roads flanking the
Germans MasSico Ridge anchor,
in It's relentless march uD the
Italian peninsula, Allied head
quarters announced today.
With equally steady progress. the
British 9Th Army smashed through
the mountains to capture the vii
lagos Of Cantalupo-the town of the
singing wolf-along with Macchia-
godena and Frosolone. This ad-
vance placed Gen Sir Bernard L.
Montgomery's forces within nine
miles of Isernla. central bastion of
the German mountain line.
In all p towns and villages fell to
the Allies, making a tWo-day total
of Il.
American troops performed one Of
the campaigns most spectacular
singled DAY achievements when they
advanced five miles through down.
pourS and up steep mountain slopes
TO seize ValleaGrlCola. citadel
perched on a 200O-toot hill four
miles north Of RayiSCanlna, in the
push toward Vcnairo.
Irto,,.n
A military COmmcntor said reach
ing this objective would have been
hard enough for any ordinary
peaCetlme Sunday afternoon walk. "
but the Americans covered the dis
tance IN the face Of intense enemy
artillery, mortar and machlnegun
fire and despite carefully laid mine
fields guarding the approaches.
Teano, too, was taken only after a
furious battle with elements of the
Hermann Gocring Division. 1t. Gen
Mark w Clark's troops wasted no
time in CapitaIizng on the capture
Of the vital road center and famed
out swiftly to the northeast and
northwest to cut the highways plerc-
ing the Germans defense lines to
the north of Massico Ridge.
Captured documents showed that
the Germans had attached the
greatest Importance to holding Tea
no, 10 miles northeast of towering
Mount Massico and II miles north
west of the Volturno River crossing
at Capua
Gen Montgomerys 9th Army
gained the high ground on both
sides Of the road which runs from
Foggia to Isernia and thence to
Rome.
Three Mile Advance.
The British veterans sluggcd
through bitter resistance to cap
Cme Cantalupo nine miles from
Iseru.a and on the southwest S:de
Of the road, in q thrce-mile drive
MaCchiaeodcna. the same distance
southeast Of Iscrnla. is on the
northeast side of the road and was
taken in an advance of mile and
half
Farther to the northeast. FrosO-
lone fell to units which blasted a
three-mIle path and established
themselves y miles from 1sernia.
Gen Montgomery'S Adriatic wing
was limited to patrolling as re-
suit of heavy rainfall along the
Trigno, where the Germans had
converted San Salvo railway station
into a heavily gunned forthress.
Meanwhile. American Flying
FoTtreSSes carried the air offensive
into Southern France from Mediter-
ranean bases for the second time in
the war bombing the important road
and railway viaduct on the coastal
route miles southwest Of Cannes
Four Hits on Bridge.
The FOrueSseS, uneSCorted to the
French Riviera, scored at least four
hits at both ends Of the 500-foot
span across the Siagne River and
made it impossible. They also put
out Of commission a 40car train at
its edge This is on the main route
between Marscille and Genoa fol
German troop and supply move
ments.
The first raid on France from this
theater was in mid August when the
.FortresSeS hit Marseillc airfeldS.
American 18th Air Force planes
made another strike outside the
limits of this theater with an attack
by two waves OF Lightning fighters
Gn the German airfleld at Tirana
Albanian capital, where parked air.
craft and buildings were left blazing
! Warhawks set a small tanker afire
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