NEW ALLIED LANDING NOT CONFIRMED

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 88, Issue 202, 24 August 1944, Page 5

NEW ALLIED LANDING NOT CONFIRMED

| REGION OF BORDEAUX i REPORT FROM THE FRENCH Recd, 11.30 p.m. London, Aug. 23. Allied sources, so far, have not. confirmed a report, which emanated from French military authorities at Hendaye, that a third Allied landing had been maue in France, this time in the region of Bordeaux, on the Atlantic coast.

French military authorities at Hendaye told Reuter's correspondent that tne new Allied landing in tne area of Bordeaux began last night. The landing, reportedly, was co-oram-ated with an attack oy French and American columns. It is reported that American and French forces met in the outskirts of Bordeaux at noon yesterday and began a co-ordinated attack against tne city. The Associated Press Irun correspondent says that according to messages received here, the Allied landings in the Bordeaux area were made near Arcachoa, known to many British and American tourists, and within the last pocket of organised German resistance in southern France. Allied planes first made a concentrated bombing attack on the area, and then came the thunder of big guns from naval units lying off shore. All along the coast to the north French forces on land turned on searchlights to mark their positions. Then Allied bombs and shells began to pour into the black area occupied by the Germans. Allied troops then stormed ashore, under cover of an intense aerial naval bombardment, lasting an hour.