SIENA FALLS TO FRENCH
General Advance In Italy LAKE DEFENCES BROKEN LONDON, July 3. The important highway centre of Siena, between Lake Trasimeuo and (he west coast of Italy, is now in our hands. A correspondent at the advanced headquarters says the town was taken by French troops of the Fifth Army curly today. An Allied communique says the Eighth Army has now dislodged the Germans from the delaying positions which they occupied east and west of Lake Trasimeno. On the west coast the Americans yesterday captured Cecina. after one of the stiffest battles the Fifth Army has fought since the occupation of Rome. They
found Cecina heavily mined, and infantrymen had to force the enemy out bouse by house.-. The capture of Cecina dears the coastal road behind the troops who by-passed the town, and these are advancing now considerably nearer to Leghorn. The latest message reports an advance all along the coastal front. Eighth Army men on the east coast have occupied Orsino and are now within 10 miles of the port of Ancona. The Royal Irish Fusiliers were in some of the recent heavy fighting on the Eighth Army front. The air forces yesterday flew about 2500 sorties.
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Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 237, 4 July 1944, Page 5
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201SIENA FALLS TO FRENCH Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 237, 4 July 1944, Page 5
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