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Nontgomerv Smashes Into
Nazi Wlnter Linas
Allied Air Activity is Intense
Prisoners Are Being Taken
London, Nov. 30th.
In Italy, the British Eight Army's new attack has brought the
troops right into the enemy's main winter defence line north of
the Sangro. The right flank of the Allieíl Fifth Army has captur-
ed Castel Nuova.
After thirty-six hours of
heavy and continuous fighting,
•Gen. Montgomery‘s men have
extended their original bridge
head across the Sangro, cap-
tured a village three miles bey
ond the river, and taken more
prisoners. The advance is con-
tinuing, with the support of
allied aircraft.
This gives the bare outline
-of yesterday's fighting as reve-
•aled in to-day‘s communique
from Gen. Eisenhower's HQ.
Dispatehes from front line cor-
respondents fill in the details,
•and a radio message from
John Daley of the Columbia
Broadcasting System gives the
following picture of the batt-
le area:
Into the original bridgehead,
xeinforcements are now pour-
ing across the river in an un-
hroken stream along a contin-
uous twelve mile stretch, the
depth of which is now four
miles. The value of the Sangro
as part of German winter de-
íence line has ceased to exist.
Five miles inland, the vill-
age of Mozza Grogna has been
captured. This lies on a high
ridge, the mainstay of the ea-
stern end of the German wint-
er line, and it is around this
ridge that the main fighting
centres at present. According
"to latest reports, General Mont
gomery's men are making good
progress in pushing the Ger-
mans off the ridge, and their
advance has now brought
them within striking distance
cf the enemy's first lateral
supply road, north of the San-
gro.
Lanciano, a few miles bey-
ond the river, and often the
the target for Allied aircraft, is
now threatened by the Allied
advance. It has again been
heavily bombarded from the
air.
There is no news of the fight
ing in the second bridgehead,
fourteen miles inland, which is
now separated from the first
by only a mile or two. It is ex-
pected that a junction of the
two forces will be effected
shortly.
Over on the Fifth Army‘s
front, American troops of the
right flank have advanced an-
other mile to capture Castel
Nuovo, in the hills fifteen mil-
es north-east of Mount Cass-
ino. here have been lively ar-
tillery duels all along the line.
Speaking of the splendid air
support given the advancing
Allied troops, Robert Dunnit,
BBC man at Allied HQ says
that air honours again go to
the Tactical Air Force, which
for seventh day running has
kept up its relentless round the
clock offensive against the en-
emy, shooting up troop concen
trations, vehicles, road con-
centrations, road con-
voys, gun positions, and supply
dumps. Enemy anti-aircraft
fire decreased during the day
and there was little fighter op
i position. The weather has been
overcast but no rain has fallen.
In the west coast sector, the
weather has not been good for
flying, and only routine pa-
Continued on page 4.
Late News
i
A Keuter message from Lisbon, as yet unconfirmed by
Allied sources, reports that President Roosevelt, President
Chiang Kaishek and Prime Minister Churchill have just
completed a series of talks, conducted in a tent in the sha-
dow of the Pyramids, and are now en route to an unknown
destination in Persia, where they are to be joined by Mar-
shal Stalin.
These Cairo talks have been kept a closely guarded se-
cret, no messages being allowd out of Egypt while they last-
ed. Since then, all kinds of rumours have been bandied a-
bout, for instance a peace feeler of even to try to negotiate a
separate peace with Hitler in order to cmicentrate on Japan.
The U.S. Minister of State, Mr. Cordell Hull, to-day em-
phatically denied that there is any foundation whatever for
such a rumour, declaring that it must be considered a fabri-
cation of pure Nazi propaganda.
Another rumour has it that the four leaders may discuss
the possibiliíy of presenting a final ultimatum to the Ger-
man nation to oust Hitler and Nazis immediately and sur-
render imconditionally, or else suffer the full weight of a re-
relentless offensive by the combined land, sea and air power
of the United Nations.
Gomel. Prisoners have been
taken.
Some two hundred miles
farther south, Gen. Valutin‘s
men have beaten off more he-
avy German attacks against the
Kiev bulge. As proof of the en-
emy‘s determination to regain
the vital territory lost, it is on-
ly necessary to point out that
the Germans have concentrat-
ed one-third of their entire
strength in armour in this sec-
tor.
Below Kiev, the Russians,
striking out from their Cher-
kasy bridgehead, have bitten
deeper into the enemy's inner
defences south and west of the
city, threatening it with encir-
clement. hey have cut the rail
way between ;Cherkasy and
Smyelo, twenty-five miles to
the south. South of Krmench-
ug also, the Germans have
lost more ground in heavy fight
ing.
In the heart of the Dniepr
bend, north-east of Nikopol, and
south-east of Dniepropetrovsk,
our Allies have improved their
positions.
nnssiaHS improve
M Positiois
Ferocious Figbtino
All Along Front
On the Eastern Front, advanc
ing Soviet forces are within
seven miles of Zlobin, on the
Gomel-Minsk railway line.
The Russians have occupied
more territory between the
Dniepr and Beresina rivers. A1
though Moscow reports quitea
heavy fall of snow, this does
not appear to have slowed
down the Russian advance,
which now threatens Zlobin
from two directions. Ski troops,
in their white camouflage su-
its, are out in strength, operat
ing swiftly in close co-opera-
tion with the Soviet spear-
heads and guerilla troops.
The battle of the rivers is
going well. Between the
Dniepr and Sozh, more places
have been cleared by the Rus-
sians, who are completing the
mopping up of the German
remnants which escaped from