The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1944-01-25
The War On
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the Appian way to Rome today
while in Russia thousands of Ger
mans faced enlightenment by the Rec
forces south of Leningrad.
In the air war, Allied bomber
fleets pounded the French invasion
coast for the third straight day
after bombers were reported over
Berlin during the night.
Fifth Army Vanguards below
Rome penetrated to point Off
cially described as within striking
distance of the ancient Appian way
after smashing IL miles inland from
their rapidly-growing west coast
beachhead.
Radio Cairo reported that deep
probing Allied patrols already had
reached the vital highway, and
front dispatches indicated that
sizeable Fifth Army units would cut
it momentarily, depriving the Ger
mans of their main supply, rein
forcement and escape route to enc
my forces along the Garigliano Ri
yer, SIS miles to the southeast.
Allied headquarters confirmed be-
latedly that the Allies had seized
Anzio, 33 miles south of Rome and
one of the capitals main ports, and
revealed officially that the invad-
ers' coastal beachhead runs "sev-
eral miles" north and south of An
zio. An italian border dispatch said
the Allies had captured Littoria, IA
miles east of fallen Nettuno and
about four miles from the Appian
way.
Official Reports
Official reports said the Ger
mans were sending several "battle
groups northward from the Carl
gliano front in a tardy effort to
stave off the Fifth Army insurge,
but Allied headquarters said the Al
lies as yet have not met formid-
able opposition.
Dispatches from correspondents
at the front reported, however,
that German reinforcements NOV
ing south from Rome had launched
counter-attackS near IAN import
ant communications center" on a
highway below the city.
A See-Saw battle was Joined at
several points along a canal, dis
patches said, with the enemy gain
ing some momentary successes in
fighting involving tanks, artillery
and infantry.
Front nnsr1 aI
however, that the counter attacks
were not to be considered a full
fledged enemy counter offensive,
appearing rather in the nature of
'feelers" to weigh the strength of
Allied forces.
On the southern front, American
patrols recrossed the Rapido river
below Casino and regained the
br1dgehead they had abandoned Sat-
urday night after running out of
ammunition
The German counter offensive in
the Vassino area apparently had
lost force with the departure Of
the "battle groups" to the north,
and Fifth Army advances were re-
ported at two other points along
the western half of the trans-Italy
line.
Moose frightened
Russian forces frightened their
moose of steel about tens of thou
sands Of Germans on the northern
front yesterday when Gen. Leonid
A. Govorov's spearheadS swept
through 40 localities south of Lenin-
grad to the outskirts of Krasnog-
vardeisk, a key rail junction.
KraSnogvardeisk's capture by the
hard-driving Russians would de-
prive the enemy of his sole remain
ing lateral rail link with collapsing
German defenses southwest, south,
and southeast Of Leningrad. A Rus
sian advance unit severed the main
supply line to the Germans west of
the old Czarist capital with a sud-
den thrust across the Krasnogvar
deisk-Tallin railroad yesterday.
Immediately south of Leningrad,
Russian troops stormed Pushkin.
site of the Cars summer palace,
and the fortress town Of Pavlovsk,
II miles below the city. Occupation
of Sablina to the southeast COM
pleted the clearing of the main Len
mgrad-MoScow railway for a stretch
Of "a miles from Russia's second city
On the Novgorod front some IS
miles to the south, Gen. Kyril a
Meretskov's Army drove down the
western shore of Lake linen to the
rail station Of Borok. II miles be-
low Novgorod on a line that runs
- more miles to Shimsk and then
curves around the southern shore
to Staraya Russia.
Allied bomber and fighter planes
streamed out over the Straits Of
Dover early today to take up the
aerial offensive against German