Fighting In Bremen

Auckland Star, Volume LXXVI, Issue 85, 11 April 1945, Page 5

Fighting In Bremen

ALLIED TANKS SIXTY MILES FROM THE ELBE N.Z.P.A.—Copyright—Rec. noon LONDON, April 10. Hanover has been captured by the United States Ninth Army and the Allies* are fighting in Bremen. Two other big cities, Brunswick and Hamburg, are threatened, while fast-moving tanks of the American First Army, in an advance of 24 miles, are within 60 miles of the River Elbe at a point four miles from Nordhausen. These were the outstanding gains reported to-night by front line correspondents. ' While some Ninth Army troops entered Hanover, others swept round to the south of the city to cut the Hanover-Brunswick autobahn. Ninth Army forces to-night are fighting in the approaches to Brunswick, correspondents state. British columns swinging northward cut the Hanover-Hanburg motor road. Field-Marshal Montgomery, with his spreading bridgehead across the Weser below Bremen, now has a solid line from Bremen to Hanover. "Daring columns are to-night speeding across Germany north and south of Nordhausen," says the Exchange Telegraph correspondent with the First Army. "Some are meeting no resistance of any sort. All started off between 6 a.m. and 8 a.m. and the 25-mile mark was passed by 3 p.m. If they keep up this hectic pace—and there seems to be nothing to check them-—we shall be on the Elbe River to-morrow."