ALLIED SUPREME HEADQUARTERS, London, June 9 — Reinforced Allied invasion armies stormed steadily deeper into Normandy against mounting resistance today and Nazi sources acknowledged that one armored spearhead was approaching Saint Lo, 20 miles southwest of Bayeaux and half way across the Cherbourg peninsula.

A Berlin dispatch to the Stockholm newspaper Aftonbladet said German military authorities were retreating under the pressure of Allied reinforcements and maybe forced to abandon Cherbourg, one of the principal harbors on the French coast and railhead trunk line to Paris.

Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower's seventh communique of the invasion reported that American, British and Canadian forces continued to “make progress in all sectors despite further reinforcement of German armour,” but did not disclose the extent of the Allied penetration of the German defenses.

... The Berlin dispatch to the Stockholm Aftonbladet said the Germans feared a linking of the two beachheads — the Americans between Carentan and Cherbourg and the British empire between Bayeaux and a point west of the Orne estuary — was imminent.

Such a juncture, the dispatch quoted the Germans as saying, would make the Nazi situation “very difficult” and perhaps force the abandonment of Cherbourg.

London, June 9 — The Germans invoked strict emergency measures today in “certain French departments,” aiming at total immobilization of the French population presumably in the operational zones, and warned that Nazi troops had orders to shoot violators on the spot.The German edicts included an order forbidding civilians of localities which may become operational zones to leave their homes even in daytime, they were announced as reports reached London of large-scale police roundups between Paris and Le Havre and new partisan sabotage exploits.

ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, Naples, June 9 — A great sky fleet of 500 to 750 fighter-escorted American Flying Fortresses and Liberators slashed through strong Nazi fighter opposition to bomb the Munich area in southern Germany today in the first Italian-based raid of the war on that industrial and communications center.... A powerful escort of Mustangs, Lightning and Thunderbolt fighters numbering perhaps 500, fought off Nazi fighters that battled the formations across Australia and the souther Reich.

LONDON, June 9 — Stormy weather whittled down the Allied air umbrella over the French invasion front today after British night bombers smashed destructively at five big transport hubs keying the movement of German troops and supplies to the Normandy battle area.Some trans-channel aerial activity was reported by daylight, but in the early hours the armada which had hovered over the French assault area unceasingly and dropped some 30,000 tons of explosives on the Nazis since H-hour was reduced to isolated task forces.

SOUTHEAST ASIA HEADQUARTERS, KANDY, Ceylon, June 9 — Allied tank-supported troops sent the Japanese fleeing southward along the Kohima-Imphal highway today as they drove a spearhead to a point 14 miles below Kohima.The trust represented a three-mile gain in one day of fighting and officials said the enemy forces were retreating steadily before the advancing Allied troops.... In northern Burma, Chinese troops advancing down the Mogaung valley closed a gap between their road blocks northwest of Kamaing. The enemy also was said to be retreating north of Kamaing.A Chinese communique issued at Chungking said the Allied troops in the Mogaung valley had captured Kann east of Tumbonghka and Pinhmi, south of Mogaung.

ROME, June 9 — A wild burst of gunfire, apparently, aimed at Crown Prince Humbert, broke up a royalist demonstration before the Quirinal Palace today as Marshal Pietro Badoglio turned over the government of liberated Italy to a new regime headed by Ivanoe Bonomi, 71-year-old Italian underground leader.Humbert, to whom King Victor Emmanuel delegated all his royal powers after the liberation of Rome last Sunday, was making one of his first formal appearances in the capital since he fled to escape the German occupation forces last September.

LONDON — A dispatch from Normandy said today that Lt. Gen. Omar N. Bradley, commander of the United State ground forces in France, went ashore yesterday to get a first-hand picture of conditions in the invasion area.

ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, Napals, June 9 — Allied tanks and infantrymen pushed the fleeing German 14th army along a broad front extending more than 40 miles above Rome today and a communique said that the Nazis have begun a general retreat from their Adriatic coastal line south of the Pescara-Rome highway.... A United Press eyewitness report received from Civitavecchia disclosed that the port was almost completely wrecked by Allied bombers.... Strong German rear guards opposed the Allied advance at some points but nowhere was there any indication that the 14th army was preparing to turn and fight.On the east bank of the Tiber and in the Sabine hills east of Rome however, the Nazi 10th army continued its slow, fighting withdrawal, littering its line of retreat with mines and demolitions and maintaining strong rear guards to hold the pursuing British 8th army.

MOSCOW, June 9 — Red army troops continued small-scale attacks along the Romanian front today after capturing the third important height in two days north of Iasi and seizing a series of enemy trenches south of Tiraspol on the lower Dnestr river.The Germans made an unsuccessful attempt to retake a position captured by the Russians yesterday in the fighting north and northeast of Iasi and 200 enemy troops were killed and 150 other captured.... A communique said that the Russians destroyed or disabled 15 tanks and shot down 22 planes on all fronts in Wednesday's fighting.

LONDON, June 9 — A light drizzle continued over the Straits of Dover at 1 p.m. today following an all night rain.A southwesterly wind increased in velocity, making the sea choppy.Clouds hung low and mist swept through the straits. Visibility was less than a mile at times.