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BEYOND ORTONA

EIGHTH ARMY 12 MILES FROM PESCARA FURTHER LOCAL GAINS. MADE BY FIFTH ARMY • IN MOUNTAINS. LONDON, December 30. The latest reports of the fighting in Italy place the Alfies one mile beyond Ortona, on the Adriatic coast, and twelve miles from Pescara, the next port on the coast. The Fifth Army _ has made more local gains in the high Apennines.

ALLIED AIR BLOWS

AT RAILWAY AND OTHER

OBJECTIVES

(British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, 9.40 a.m.) RUGBY, December 30. “The Eighth Army advance in the Adriatic coastal sector and the localised advance by the Fifth Army in the mountains continue,” states an Italy communique. Elsewhere on both fronts patrols are active. “Vital rail communications in Central and Eastern Italy were targets for our bombers yesterday. Large forces of heavy bombers, escorted by fighters, obtained good rseults at Rimini and Ferrara, with hits on buildings and yards, causing several explosions and fires. Medium bombers attacked, installations at Certaldo, Orvieto, Bunine and Foligno. Fighter-bombers scored hits on a station and tracks at Anagni. All our planes returned.

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Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka

Wairarapa Times-Age, 31 December 1943, Page 3

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Tapeke kupu
177

BEYOND ORTONA Wairarapa Times-Age, 31 December 1943, Page 3

BEYOND ORTONA Wairarapa Times-Age, 31 December 1943, Page 3

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