FRESH ATTACK

Evening Post, Volume CXXXVII, Issue 116, 18 May 1944, Page 6

FRESH ATTACK

Hassino as objective

POLISH TROOPS USED fiec. L 45 p.m. LONDON, May 17. General Alexander launched a new attack today against Cassino, where the. garrison is estimated at 5000, states Renter's correspondent with the Eighth Army. An artillery barrage comparable in number of guns to the cannonade which opened the general offensive last week preceded an attack by Polish troops on the.heights behind the town which give access to Monastery Hill. Artillery simultaneously shelled Highway 6, the road to Rome. Eec. 2 p.m. RUGBY, May 17. The British and, .Polish drive towards the Via Casiliria, 5 known as High|way 6/is described by:a .correspondent with the Polish troops'near Phantom Ridge. He says that Polish troops, in an allout attack against German strongpoints around Monastery Hill and the Cassino area today, were driving down from the hills to the vital Highway 6. British troops of a famous division, penetrating deep into the enemy lines •with tanks and infantry, have captured a point from which they menace the road, which is now under terrific British mortar and machine-gun fire. With the Poles driving in from the east towards Highway 6 and the British smashing a way through from the west, the town of Cassino is threatened with complete encirclement. If the Poles Sild the British link together on Highway 6 Hitler's famed First Parachute Division will be trapped in the Monastery fortress and Cassino town itself. They will face complete annihilation.— 8.0. W.