BATTLE IN ITALY

Waikato Times, Volume 194, Issue 22321, 12 April 1944, Page 3

BATTLE IN ITALY

j GERMAN REPLACEMENTS ! TROOPS FROM RUSSIA J FROST-BITTEN VICTIMS | (Unil'*' 1 Assn —Elpi.v Tel. Copyright) I (Received April 12, noon) LONDON, April 11 | The Garigliano river has again I risen above normal level by the ; German manipulation of flood control | gates at the Liri river above its con- | fluence with the Garigliano, says | Reuter’s correspondent at the : Advanced Headquarters in Italy, j There has been no explanation of the | Germans shutting off the floodgates | yesterday. j The artillery has been laying down I special concentrations against two | German-held hotels in Cassino, ! otherwise the front remains generally j quiet. i Recent German replacements include i frostbitten victims from the Russian | front, sent direct from hospital. All ! have lost their toes in the Russian j winter. ; This is the twentieth successive day |of the air offensive against com- ! lminications and supply areas around i Rome, which has considerably reduc- ; ed the flow of supplies to the German j front lines. i The Algiers radio says it is offi-i-cially announced that German units j from the Eastern front have been ! identified along the whole Italian I front. Air Offensive Resumed | After a short lull imposed by the j weather medium bombers and lighter | units resumed their attacks against | the enemy railway system between | Florence and Rome, and Royal Air I Force Wellingtons also struck in the I darkness at two supply ports on the : west coast, writes an Italy correj spondent. A dozen points on the inland and coastal railway—most of | them familiar targets—were visited iin daylight. Medium bombers blew | out two large sections of a 600 ft. j viaduct at Bucine. They encouunteried neither flak nor enemy fighters | over this or other targets. | Four small ships carrying supplies to the Germans in Yugoslavia were sunk by Kitty bombers at Kirje Island, off Sidenik.