PIVOT TOWN

Wairarapa Times-Age, 1 November 1943, Page 3

PIVOT TOWN

CAPTURED BY FIFTH ARMY OUTFLANK) NG’THREAT. TO ENEMY LINE COVERING ROME. j (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) LONDON, October 30. The Fifth Army after capturing Mondragone, 20 miles northwest of Capua, which is* the vital western pivot of the Germans’ new ‘line, has crossed the whole length of the canal running from the sea to the main Cancello road. General Clark thus threatens to outflank the Germans’ new line and force the mountain barrier to Rome. British troops of the Fifth’Army are now right up against the Massico ridge, the main German defence line. The enemy has set up nests of mach-ine-guns fired by remote control at any points where attacks may be expected. Reuter’s Algiers correspondent says that the Eighth Army has occupied Montemetro, one mile north of Montefalcone, about 14 miles from the Adriatic. The Algiers radio says that Flying Fortresses which blasted the marshalling yards at Genoa caught the Germans unprepared. They dropped their bombs through a break in heavy clouds and also hit a number of factories. Photographs show that these included the Ansaldo steel and ordnance works and also the San Giorgio instrument factory.