The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-04-29
Yanks Reach
Foot Of Alps
0..ec;a And Bergano Fall;
M Nazi Escape Routes
Severed

ROME. April % R, ~ .or+s D.
tS0N a italy captured Brescia
e. Be,gano at the foot OF 1he
I AIo. todsy, blocking the Ia last 1r Two
AlpS ,,on escape routes to the Bren-
OS-' noes into Austria, and an un-
ns s,..i,I Milan radio report said they
o oI.eadv had reached the owls )
s slaetier at Como, 30 miles beyond
Be al, issr German troops were
me ' from Genoa, last big west
cFd c IN mort held by the enemy, and
co aao l5rieoners were taken, spe-
o 5:.J Allied S communique said.
'I simultaneously it was announc-
! Infficjally that Marshal Rodol1o
ed oH' ni Fascist commander in
G h;af NJ Benito Mussolini's crushed
cl.sa had been captured by ltal.
!ol'u "atriots. but there still was -
Iali , ovation ation of reports that Mus
C CON-; himself and other Fascist
so o-fnderates had been seized.
'V corman troops in the north
,on4ral and northeastern parts OF
T Tv'i,, ., we're trying desperately to
I I.Gy their smashed forces on the
ldHJ i.l- If tho Adioe river. or
a Il9I Venetian line, but the
W oon,munioue said both Fifth and
pritish Eighth Army forces were
scross that barrier in strength.
The fall of Brescia and Ber-
eamo was accomplished by over
9,belming American forces spear
headed by veteran tankmen of the
II S First Armored Division.
Thew took Brescia and rolled on 30
miles northwest through Bergamo.
outflanking the big Italian city of
Milan. 26 miles southwest of Ber-
gamo.
Milan Itself was reported freed
Of German troops by powerful
Italian patriot forces, and so was
the big industrial city of Turin,
according to Italian partisan sta
tons.
French forces, smashing over
the northwestern Italian border in
the Maritime Alps on a 50-mile
front we're inside Italy to a depth
Of five to 10 miles, putting a gi-
ganric pincers into operation
against the demoralized Germans
The Allier All Command an.
nounced meanwhile that its planes
had dropped more than 100000
pounds Of equipment since Nov
ember %, 1914, to Italian partisans
whose uprisings have spre a d
throughout the northern zone.
Nearly two and one-half tons OF
supplies were dropped into Bolog-
ma the night of April 10, a few
hours before Allied troops and
pdrtlsans routed the enemy from
there and began the big offensive
across the Pc plain.
Bad weather hampered aerial op-
eratlonS but one American Thun-
derbolt got through and killed ap-
proXlmately 100 Germans and de.
slr0yed or damaged nearly 70 We
Mcles IN attacking a convoy near
Milan, the communique said.
Inc enemy garrison on Monte
More in the Genoa area held up
operations "a hours and then sur
rendered to Americans driving to-
ward the French Riviera coastline.
marshal GRAHAM, former COVER
nor OF Llbya and Somaliland. on~
.lme chief Of the Italian general
Stali' and commander of North
niIIca forces, was taken by Ital-
nan patriots who reported their
p ~ catch to headquarters of. the
!? army Group. No details were
5 slse mas TO When or where the CAP.
'ole was effected.
Gen. Mark W. Clark. 18th Arnv
n nlvap commander, however, in a
s.tSSage to northern Italy patriots
taoI. news Of a simultaneous at
T,, rG ny the forces of liberty at
s agsln and Milan came as a con-
IN sol4 tas t.. to all who are taking part
-
finn i'm bpsa'TnIof-controlled radio sta
I ton at Busto-Arsizio in northern ntr
had 5,aiy de declared that patriot foras $
no ~ i. IN up with Allied troops
l rosdl OF the Pc rive.~ and that All.
had ' lea ieaolng to the Bremen Pass
"7o oo 1een Barred" and about
+l, 'V,JV y prisoners have been can.
said i9e $ Swiss radio in a b~oadcast
evacna .ae Swiss government had
50 ' 6og5ee civilians from the chias.
ma D0[ ,I'(2 area, where 1900 Ger
ze srl.S VINO had sought to enter Swift.
bby y f+a1; had been trapped last n aai'
batt1 .@i Id, patriots, and a violent.
cast asis IVA was in progress. The broad.
70 N 4e mterned by the Swiss. N
Ar wear the Ligurian coast Fifth