"IT HAS COME"

Auckland Star, Volume LXXV, Issue 308, 29 December 1944, Page 5

"IT HAS COME"

HEAVIEST FIGHTING

Germans Admit Head-On Allied Resistance N.Z. Press Association —Copyright Rec. 1.30 p.m. LONDON, Dec. 28. The tone of the German references to the Western Front is more uncertain, says The Times corres- j pondent in Stockholm, with remarks in Berlin reports such as. The whole character of the battle has changed since Tuesday," and suggestions that the struggle is tending to develop into a disorderly battle oi destruction. The German news agency commentator, Sertorius, after recalling j that, the German spokesmen had; repeatedly predicted _ that the i heaviest fighting, was still to come, | adds: "Now it has come. Ihe German offensive has met head-on Allied front resistance which has stiffened remarkably. Eisenhower has not only committed a majority of the Third Army forces on the southern edge of the German bulge but also a good deal of the Seventh A Th y e German-sponsored Scandinavian telegraph bureau says that vori Rundstedt's offensive has opened the eyes of the German soldiers, who have not any idea what tne simplest comforts mean. in tne Ardennes," he adds, they found American camps equipped with the same comforts and luxuries as are to be found in a small city.