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NEW ZEALANDERS AT CASSINO. NINTH DAY OF SLOW PROGRESS. ONE TANK KNOCKED OUT. \ (N.Z. Press Association— Copyright.) (Rec. 11 a.m.) LONDON, Mar. 23. While the New Zealanders maintained their slow progress in the ninth day of hand-to-hand fighting inside Cassino, French forward troops on Mount Castellone, three miles north-west, withstood a sharp counter-attack, says Reuter’s correspondent at Allied Headquarters. The Germans attacked under a heavy artillery barrage but the French did not yield ground. Simultaneously the German artillery opened up against three towns north-west of Cassino—Portello, Vallertonde and San Michele—while the Luftwaffe strafed roads in the Cairoterelle area. The New Zealanders, battling ' from house to house to-day, knocked out a tank which the Germans had embedded *n a stone building.
The British United Press correspondent reports that German artillery yesterday heavily shelled one sector of the Anzio beachhead.
The Bth Army beat off a small at' tack north of Orsogna.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 64, Issue 140, 24 March 1944, Page 3
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