The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-05-22
The Wor On Many Fronts
By LOUIS K. KEEMLE United Press War EditOr)

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 Allied forces in Italy rolled past the shattered Adolf Hitler line into the new German defense wall from the Liri river to the coast today, while above the. Liri Polish troops of the Eighth Army broke into Piediminte, northern anchor of what remained of the Hitler line.
 Americans on the coast advanced 10 miles beyond Fondi. which was captured yesterday, and reachel Terracina at the southern end of the new enemy line, g miles below the Anzio beachhead. French, British and American troops in the center cut the Pontecorvo-P -Pico lateral sup ply road and were enveloping Ponte- corvo itself.
 The renewed aerial offensive against western Europe proceeded with undiminished furyl. Waves of Allied planes swept across the chan mel to maintain the destructive war fare against railway and other vital targets in France, Belgium and Ger many, which was carried on during the night by more than TOO RAG heavy bombers in an assault on the German rail and industrial center of Duisbrrg.
 Jap Admission
 Tn the Pacific, the Japanese dis closed that an American naval task force had penetrated deep into the southea nrtsaepproaches to Japan to attack Marcu sisland, 1,l50 miles from Tokyo. This development came shortly after an American bomber, hitting from the other direction, came within 400 miles of the Japa- nese main islands in an attack on Shimusl1iri and Ketoi in the Kuriles.
 The Italian campaign was marked by determined German efforts to hold the northern end of their line around Piedimonte and prevent an Allied sweep through the Liri valley and along the Casilina highway past the Anzio beachhead towards Rome.
 Except for that sector, the Hitler line" was koncked out, although the Germans kept calling new defenses as they fell back on "the Adolf Hit Ter line" or alternately, according to some prisoners, the ID for Dora line"
 Swift Advance
 Below the Liri, the Allied advance was swift, especially along the coast, where the Americans at Terracina had pushed forward 25 miles since the start of the offensive. It was possible their rate of progress was limited only by the need to await the crushing of the German resist ance at the other end of the line so that the march towards AnZio and Rome could be synchronized.
 German opposition at the coastal end was comparatively weak. The disintegration of the enemy defenses was indicated by the announcement that the total bag of prisoners has risen to well over" 5000. The vest ern aerial offensive followed a sig nificant pre-invasion pattern, aimed at snarling Germany's communica- tions system in France, Belgium. Holland and the western reach be- fore the Allied landing. More than 2,0OO Allied planes took part in yes- terday's operations, the greatest fighter sweep over made over Eu- rope, while 250 heavy bombers hit the Pas de Calais area of the coast. Targets included 300 railway trains, as well as air fields. bridges. canals, power stations and similar installa- tions. In today's operations, Amer ican heavy bombers hit the French invasion coast and the German naval base at Kiel.
 News from Orient
 The news from the Orient indi- cated that the Japanesce were being impressed by the vulnerability of their islands and their stolen ein- pire to attack by Allied air power. The bombings of the nearby Kuriles and Marcus island came only few days after tn enaval-air assault on Soerabaja, Java, deep within the Dutch Indies.
 of New Guinea, 1t was anonunced that Allied forces had annihilated the Japanese on Insoemear island, site of the Wakde air strip. On the Asiatic mainland. the Japanese were being pressed into a narrow corner of Myitkyina. their former Burmese stronghold. while thousands of other Japanese were being encircled in the Mogaung valley, 43 miles to the west. 
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