May 27, 1944.;

THIS WAS REPORTED TODAY, MAY 27, 1944:

Naples, May 27. —

 Fifth Army vanguards from the Anzio, beachhead sliced through the enemy's flank

today to within 2 1/2 miles of Valmojitone and the Via Casilma, last practical escape route to Rome for perhaps 17 German divisions retreating from the southeast.

 Pearl Harbor^ May 27.—

American planes blasted Japanese bases M; Thursday, pounding ' . Kusaie. Ponape, Hhuhiushu airfields in .the Kuriles and the battered enemy garrisons in the Marshalls which have been cut off from effective help.

. London, -May ,27. —

American bombers were reported by Berlin to be striking, at Germany again today in an apparent resurgence of the pre-invasion bombardment after a day's lull enforced by murky .weather-----

HUNTINGDON, PA., SATURDAY, MAY 27, 1944.

LAST PRACTICAL ROUTE OF

ESCAPE FOR BIG NAZI ARMY

IN ITALY ABOUT TO BE CUT

NEW GAINS MAY BY

BOTH BIG ARMIES

ALL ALONG FRONT

by REYNOLDS PACKARD

United Press Correspondent :

A l l i e d Headquarters,

Naples, May 27. —

 Fifth Army vanguards from the Anzio, beachhead sliced through the enemy's flank

today to within 2 1/2 miles of Valmojitone and the Via Casilma, last practical escape route to Rome for perhaps 17 German divisions retreating from the southeast.

The column pushed almost completely through the Lepini Mountains protecting- the southwestern flank of the Via Casilins in a 12-mile advance that carried to the approaches to Artena, only a little more than two miles below Valmontone, one of the strongholds in what was believed to face the last German defense line below

Rome.

(The Nazi-controlled Vichy radio said the Germans would abandon Rome without a fight to take up a new defense line north of the city.)

3 AIRFIELD BASES

IN KURILES HIT BY

 AMERICAN PLANES

By WILLIAM F. TYREE

United Press Correspondent

Pearl Harbor^ May 27.—

American planes blasted Japanese bases M; Thursday, pounding ' . Kusaie. Ponape, Hhuhiushu airfields in .the Kuriles and the battered enemy garrisons in the Marshalls which have been cut off from effective help.

Admiral Chester W, Nimitz's Pacific Fleet . Headquarters announced in communiques yesterday that Navy . Ventura search planes raided Shumushu airfield Wednesday, while Mitchell medium bombers attacked Ponape's airfield and dock areas and Army, Navy and Marine planes hit positions in the Marshalls.

A single search plane from Fleet Air Wing Two bomber Kusaie, 350 miles southwest of Kwajalein, in a daylight raid Thursday, attacking through light

anti-aircraft resistance. All planes returned safely to their bases.

Allied Planes Resume

Air War Over Germany

After One-Day Respite

By WALTER CRONKITE

United Press Correspondent

. London, -May ,27. —

American bombers were reported by Berlin to be striking, at Germany again today in an apparent resurgence of the pre-invasion bombardment after a day's lull enforced by murky .weather over the continent.-Speedy Mosquito bombers of the

Royal Air Force swung a one-two punch at Germany during the night despite unfavorable flying conditions, jabbing at the Rhineland chemical center .of Ludwigehafen and the Aachen rail hub "from which trunk lines branch out to the invasion coast, .

~By noon today the . clouds over the channel .were beginning to break and the sun was filtering  through, enabling the waiting Allied aerial .fleets in Britain to go into action again, ;

"Soon after noon the clamor of the Nazi radio warning system traced the course of United States bombers and ' their fighter shield over .southwest and west . Germany in the now familiar pattern of the prelude to daylight attacks on the Reich.

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