LINE INTACT

Auckland Star, Volume LXXV, Issue 39, 16 February 1944, Page 5

LINE INTACT

ANZIO BEACHHEAD

Allies Stated To Be Landing

Reinforcements

N.Z. Press Association —Copyright Rec. 10 a.m. LONDON, Feb. 15. The Allied positions in the Anzio beachhead were firmly maintained yesterday in face of numerous violent counter-attacks, states Algiers radio. The defence belt remains intact. Paris radio reports that the Allies are landing further reinforcements at the beachhead. . Reuters correspondent with the Fifth Army, in a delayed dispatch, says it is believed that the enemy s main attack against the beachhead launched last week, only succeeded in winning very local objectives at great cost. The outstanding and important fact is that Kesselnng failed to remove a big threat to his flank, and the Allied forces are m a position to be reinforced, their immediate objective being to make the beachhead secure as a base for operations. Pressure was maintained against the enemy in the beachhead, says the Allied communique. A small enemy attack was repulsed. A three-hour truce in the Cassino battle was observed yesterday to enable the Germans gather in their dead, reports Reuters correspondent at Allied headquarters. It was the second truce requested by the uer mans in three weeks. The bodies of more than 200 Germans we e removed, including 43 which weie ■nicked tin bv Fifth Army troops Fmmediate P ly in front pf their positions. These were carried .tc > a point midway between the lines. The Ger mans were not allowed Jo a PPi° ach close enough to the Allied lines to see details of our defences. town from the north-west ine radio admitted that, with the m provement in the weather Aiuea fighters are now strongly opposing German bomber activities.