ARTILLERY ACTIVE

Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 188, 8 May 1944, Page 5

ARTILLERY ACTIVE

Anzio And Garigiiano (British Official Wireless and Press Assn.) (Received May 7, 7 p.m.) RUGBY, May 6. A correspondent reports that the Germans are evacuating civilians behind the lines facing the Fifth Army’s main front in Italy up to a depth of 20 miles. Allied guns in the Anzio beach-head scored a number of successes during yesterday. Four direct hits started large fires in a group of buildings three and a half miles north-west of Carrano. Three enemy tanks were knocked Out north-east of Carrano. . On the eastern flank an enemy munition dump was set on fire two miles north-west of Cisterna. Our ground forces, attempting to improve their positions on the central sector, met strong enemy resistance near Padiglone. An enemy patrol attempting to cross the upper Garigiiano River in rubber boats was repulsed. Artillery and mortar exchanges occurred at Cassino and other areas on the central and main front. Vichy radio says: “Lively Allied (artillery fire has begun between the Cassino sector and the coast. The weight of the gunfire is increasing as the rhythm of the enemy preparations for the new general offensive accelerates all along ’the front.” Paris radio reports that a constant stream of Allied reinforcements is being brought up on the Italian front. Reuter’s correspondent in Italy reports that four Italian spies who were sent into the Allied lines by the Germans were shot after conviction by an Allied court-martial.