GETTING READY

Wairarapa Times-Age, 29 November 1943, Page 4

GETTING READY

FOR “COLOSSAL CRACK’’ EIGHTH ARMY ACTIVITY PART OF GERMAN LINE FALLING BACK (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) (Received This Day. 12.25 p.m.) LONDON, November 28. General Montgomery, after his stirring message to the Eighth Army, seized on the more favourable weather today to pour men and supplies across the River Sangro in preparation for the “colossal crack,” says Reuter’s Algiers correspondent. The Eighth Army last night landed further reinforcements by amphibious vehicles near the mouth of the Sangro. Six miles up the Sangro, the Germans are shelling the Eighth Army position at Archi, south of the Sangro. The Germans hereabouts obviously fear another assault across the Sangro, because their main highway running south-west of Lanciano loops toward the Sangro at this point, within range of Allied artillery. German rearguards on the south bank of the Sangro, 13 miles south of this loop, are at present falling back, demolishing everything in their path. Eighth Army artillery, situated on heights north of Castel Di Sangro, is successfully shelling the Germans north of the Sangro. The improved weather has increased activity on the Fifth Army front. The Americans,, after a two-mile advance, secured valuable heights in the area of Mount La Falconara. Flying Fortresses, escorted by met the largest formation of enemy fighters seen recently, shooting down seven of the enemy when they, for the second time within two days, attacked railway yards and a bridge at Rimini. Another force of Fortresses which hammered the rail yards at Grizzana, cut the railway at one .point.