SCHELDT APPROACHES 10 ANTWERP CLEARED

Auckland Star, Volume LXXV, Issue 266, 9 November 1944, Page 5

SCHELDT APPROACHES 10 ANTWERP CLEARED

HOLLAND FRONT Area Twenty Miles Deep Liberated N.Z. Press Association—Copyright Rec. 12.30 p.m. LONDON, Nov. 8. Reviewing operations on the British-Canadian front since the Canadians crossed the Leopold Canal on October 6, a spokesman at FieldMarshal Montgomery's Headquarters said: "We have cleared the Scheldt approaches to Antwerp and liberated an area 20 miles deep on a 40-mile front. We have taken prisoner between 38,000 and 40,000 Germans, and inflicted perhaps the same number of casualties, destroyed the German 64th Division south of the Scheldt and the 70th Division on Walcheren."

Allied troops to-day captured Vrouwenpolder, in Northern Walcheren front. Otherwise there was quiet throughout Holland.

Reuters correspondent with the Canadian First Army reports that the Poles to-day launched an attack to clean up 300 fanatically fighting Germans who are pinned against the end of the Moerdijk bridges, which have been blown up.

To-day's communique from Supreme Headquarters says that with the freeing of Willemstad we now hold the entire south shore of the Holland ische Diep and the Maas River, with the exception of the area east and south of the destroyed Moerdijk bridges, where a small isolated enemy force is still holding out.

Fighting continues on Walcheren north-east of Domburg. Resistance has ceased elsewhere on the island.