VITAL LIFELINE
FOR GERMANS IN ITALIAN MOUNTAINS MENACED VERY CLOSELY AT ORTONA DESPERATE ENEMY DEFENCE (By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright) (Received This Day, 12.45 p.m.) LONDON, December 23. The Germans are battling desperately to prevent the Eighth Army bursting through into the open country north of Ortona and gaining possession of the coastal road, which is a vital arterial lifeline for supplying the German troops in the mountains west and south of the road. More picked German parachutists have been dropped in the role of infantrymen to stiffen the coastal corridor. The Exchange Telegraph Agency’s correspondent with the Fifth Army reports that two Russian generals, visiting the Fifth Army front, encountered 200 German prisoners proceeding to the rear under guard. The Russians interviewed the prisoners and were surprised to find that they had mostly come recently from the Russian front.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 24 December 1943, Page 4
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139VITAL LIFELINE Wairarapa Times-Age, 24 December 1943, Page 4
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