03 Daytime Radio Newspaper

Your Daytime Radio Newspaper with Bernardine Flynn. Hello, Flynn. This is Bernardine Flynn bringing you another of our news programs, your Daytime Radio Newspaper. Dear Rick Kirby is going to tell you about the big, important news.

I will tell you about the little human things that are happening to people everywhere. And now they're worried about the big news today. The German war machine is rocking under heavy blows from many directions today.

In Italy, an Allied spokesman says the German line before Rome is breaking, and the Germans have begun and orderly retreat. American spearheads on that battlefront have stabbed forward another three miles to bring the key towns of Esternya and Vanoffro within artillery range.

These new gains give our forces complete observation on the Broggarayano River Valley. The present German defenses are sagging under the heavy Allied pressure, but as the enemy gives up, his delaying actions are still an obstacle to our forward push. The German opposition is described as still very stiff. On the aviatic side of the Italian peninsula, the British

Eighth Army has pushed across the Trigno River to establish a second bridgehead on that stream. In the air, a live flier yesterday knocked down 37 enemy planes, their biggest bag in weeks. Thirty of these were destroyed by the flying fortresses and liberators, which raided beener-noyst just below Vienna. That raid, incidentally, is described as one of the most

successful ever carried out in the Mediterranean theater. Meantime, we learned that on Monday American medium bombers knocked out an Italian cruiser, which had been seized by the Germans. Reconnaissance pictures showed the cruiser lying on its starboard side in a big patch of oil in Ancona Harbor in Italy's Adriatic Coast. At the time of