POWERFUL ALLIED AIR ATTACKS

Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 195, 16 May 1944, Page 5

POWERFUL ALLIED AIR ATTACKS

Alpine Vfodpct Bombed LONDON, May J 4. Photographs sb.ow that Flying Fortresses yesterday blew a 40-foot gap in the Alviso viaduct, on the railway from the Brenner Pass, thus temporarily blocking traffic info Italy. Rome radjo states that Allied planes this morning raided suburbs of Rome. A communique from t(ie Allied headquarters in Italy reported an attack against railway yards in Venice. Reuter’s eorrefepofifient says thaf between 500 and 750 Allied heavy bombers bombed railway yards on the main lines in the Po Valley. Fortbesses hamipered yards at Ferrara anfl Mon|ug. Liberators’ attacked yards at Vicenza, Padua, and Rione di Sacco, 10 miles south of begifiep Trevico and Me®treaucTers, escorted by' Spitfires, attacked railway bridges on the main Florence line and the Empoli-Siena line. Marauders also bombed a bridge between Florence and Arezzo, and another two miles west of Arezzo, where a span is believed to have been directlv hit. We flew over 2800 sorties, yesterday. About 60 enemy planes were sighted over the battle area in daylight. ACT Knifed Stretcher-Bearer LONDON, May 14. A correspondent reports that a wounded German prisoner killed an Allied stretcher-bearer on the Cassino front by throwing a knife af him as he was attending ti wounded Allied soldier. The knife, which wia's of the type supplied to mountain troop's for use when a gunshot would reveal a position, lodged in the stretcher-bearer’s neck, killing him instantly. ' The woiinded Allied soldier grabbed a rifle and shot the German dead