New Zealand Gunners Shell Cassino Station

Manawatu Times, Volume 69, Issue 57, 10 March 1944, Page 5

New Zealand Gunners Shell Cassino Station

LONDON, March 3. New Zealand gunners last nigu\. shelled the railway station a mile south of Cassino marking the limit oi the last American attempt to break through to the Liri Valley, says Reuter’s correspondent at Allied Headquarters. The flooded rivers in the Cassino sector are subsiding but the boggy ground continues to immobilise aircraft and heavy vehicles. Von Mackensen’s iorces on the beachhead front are using the lull in the large-scale operations to spar for an opening in the Allied positions. The greater part of yesterday’s i 1300 Allied air sorties were directed at crippling the Germans’ communications and preventing a regrouping of their forces after the failure of their third offensive. British troops again parried attempts to infiltrate through ravines on the upper reaches of the Moletta River. Unloading operations in the Anzic harbour have not slackened, even under shelling, sneak bombing, heavy seas, and windstorms. German military commentators fore- 1 cast an Allied offensive soon from the < Anzio beachhead. The Berlin radio said j that an attack by strongly reinforced . Fifth Army troops could be expected ] within a few days. A German News Agency spokesman j said that judging from the consider- t able movement behind the Allied lines ] the offensive will be launched very i soon. t