June 5, 1944;ROME FALLS, TROOPS CROSS TIBER

THIS WAS REPORTED TODAY, JUNE 5, 1944:

Naples, June 5. UP)—

The powerful 5th army thundered across the Tiber toward northern Italian horizons in pursuit of the 10th and 14th German armies today—with hardly a look at captured Rome, ancient seat of western civilization fallen a prize to Allied troops after nine months of sacrifice.

ROME, June 5. (AP)—

Mussolini's balcony hung empty in the gauzy mist of moonlight as 5th army

soldiers in Indian file encircled the former dictator's office at the Palazzo Venezia last night and thousands of Roman partisans fanned the fires of liberation.

LONDON, June 5. (AP)—

Approximately 1250 American heavy' bombers and fighters—leading an Allied aerial assault of powerful proportions against the fortified French coast — smashed military installations in the Boulogne and Calais areas today with an estimated 2200 short tons of bombs.

ADVANCED ALLIED HEADQUARTERS,

New Guinea, June 5.(AP)—

Japan flung more of her husbanded airforce into swirling sky battles in the southeast Pacific— risking seventy planes,  losing thirty—and mounted fierce mortar fire resistance against a new American ground offensive on bloody  Biak, reports disclosed today.

 

RENO, NEVADA, MONDAY, JUNE 5, 1944

Italian Reds

Fight Fascists

In City Streets

Eternal City

Escapes Damage

During Capture

BV NOLAN NORGAARD

A L L I E D HEADQUARTERS,

Naples, June 5. UP)—

The powerful 5th army thundered across the Tiber toward northern Italian horizons in pursuit of the 10th and 14th German armies today—with hardly a look at captured Rome, ancient seat of western civilization fallen a prize to Allied troops after nine months of sacrifice.

STREET CLASHES

Last ditch German rearguards died within the shadow of the Roman Forum and in the streets of the government quarter in bitter clashes as Italian partisans, barechested and wearing hammer and sickle insignia fought hand to hand with Fascists and Nazis in a brief battle for liberation.

RED FLAGS FLAUNTED

AS ALLIES ENTER ROME

Reporter Moves With Troopers

Into Captured Italian Capital

By DANIEL De LUCE

ROME, June 5. (AP)—

Mussolini's balcony hung empty in the gauzy mist of moonlight as 5th army

soldiers in Indian file encircled the former dictator's office at the Palazzo Venezia last night and thousands of Roman partisans fanned the fires of liberation.

SOME ROMANS KILLED

Behind a screen of partisan volunteers who wore hammer and sickle armbands, waved red flags and brandished old firearms, American forces drove to the Tiber river through futile German resistance in the streets—resistance that was real despite the German pretense that Rome was an open city.

Some Romans died in the fight

Bombers Smash

Hard at French

Invasion Coast

Channel Ports

Battered Again

By Allied Planes

LONDON, June 5. '/Pi—

Approximately 1250 American heavy' bombers and fighters—leading an Allied aerial assault of powerful proportions against the fortified French coast — smashed military installations in the Boulogne and Calais areas today with an estimated 2200 short tons of bombs.

SEE ROCKET SHELLS

This was the fourth attack in a row against the Pas de Calais, the area of France closest to England and it came after RAF bombers attacked French coast objective and targets in Cologne, Germany, last night.

Watchers on the English coast facing Boulogne could see enemy rocket shells rising from the ground leaving a thin white trail of smoke and exploding high in

the air.

for freedom, cigarettes between their lips and cheers in their throats.

Some were lying across the Ger man machineguns they had tried to seize barehanded.

"Why were you so long coming? We expected you four months ago," said some of the partisans.

Others in unwhimpering silence, asking no questions, waited for their wounds to be bandaged.

Japanese Risk

Planes in Air

Battle Rages

In Pacific Area

ADVANCED ALLIED HEADQUARTERS,

New Guinea, June 5.(AP)—

Japan flung more of her husbanded airforce into swirling sky battles in the southeast Pacific— risking seventy planes,  losing thirty—and mounted fierce mortar fire resistance against a new American ground offensive on bloody  Biak, reports disclosed today.

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