18/2/1944. 6.= pm. Robert Robinson
In Italy there were big beachhead attacks
yesterday but the heavy enemy attacks
were repelled. The main thrust the
enemy tries to carry out was 10 miles
inland from Anzio where some 7000 Germans
attacked. Our correspondents say that the
present enemy attack is as strong as
his main effort last week.
The Germans have published an admission
that they have pulled out of Staraja Roessa
which was an important base to them.
In Italy the biggest number of bombers
ever engaged were thrown in on the main
5th Army front. There was hard fighting for
the heights west of Cassino. The position in
Cassino itself remains unchanged.
Severe weather caused activity to be
limited on the 8th Army front.
Moscow has reported yesterday and
this morning the end of the 10 trapped
divisions of the German 8th Army. The
German losses are 80000 men viz
52000 dead 11000 prisoners 20000
killed in relief actions from the outside.
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