Rome Anzio Veterans Finish Mop Up In Heart of City Last Nazi Rearguard Routed; Planes Batter Fleeing Foe; Populace Hysterical With Joy Allies (Official) By Associated Press 1944 ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, Naples, June 4 Allied Fifth army troops from the old Anzio beachhead captured historic Rome Sunday after a fierce battle through suburbs of the Eternal city. The mop up of the heart of Rome the first European capital to fall to allied troops was completed at 915 p. m. (115 p. m., mountain war time) as an allied force knocked out the last German rearguard unit in front of the Bank of Italy, almost within the shadow of Trajans column. To the north of the city warplanes battered at fleeing German transports, wrecking or damaging at least 600 motor vehicles, as the allied forces sought to annihilate the remaining nazi iivisons in Italy. Wreckage Litters Roads The huge air wreaked toll of nazi transports on congested roads above Rome indicated the enemy intended no major stand in the ancient city first European capital to be entered by allied troops. Hysterical with joy, Roman citizens at the citys outskirts amid kisses and tears waved on U. S. and Canadian tanks and infantrymen dashing up the Via Casilina and then battering into German defenders holding the suburbs, a front dispatch from Associated Press Correspondent Daniel De Luce said. Opposition appeared to be tapering off. Headquarters did not identify the first troops entering Rome. The enemy made it a battle every foot of the way through the suburbs into Rome. The Germans hurled all they had tanks, armor and artillery into fierce fighting to block the Fifth army steamroller at least until they could pull out more of their own menaced forces. Troops of the Fifth army entered the city limits of Rome Sunday. Sporadic resistance continues, the brief allied announcement said. Taken in 12 Days This break into Rome, center of Catholicism and once the seat of the ancient Roman empire, came 24 days after the allies unleashed a powerful combined offensive of the Fifth and Eighth armies, and 12 days after Fifth army men on the Anzio beachhead hurled forth their power drive aimed at the capital. Lashing at the nazi columns retreating from Rome, allied fighter bombers destroyed or damaged at least 600 motor vehicles, finding excellent targets in congested traffic above the city to Viterbo, Lake Bracciano and Lake Bolsena, headquarters said. Other planes struck troop concentrations and gun positions. U. S. heavy bombers 500 to 750 strong smashed meanwhile at targets on two main rail lines on the French-Italian frontier. The fighter bombers found the nazi columns retreating as far north as Viterbo, 38 miles above Rome, and Lake Bracciano, 50 miles from the capital. Big Roundup of Prisoners The great roundup of prisoners continued with more than 15,000 now taken by the Fifth army alone. The Eighth army has captured at least 6000. Five of the 18 German divisions engaged in Italy already had been virtually annihilated. Thus the allies were well along in their avowed purpose of this offensive to crush the legions.