GERMAN TRAFFIC HALTED

Press, Volume LXXXI, Issue 24503, 28 February 1945, Page 7

GERMAN TRAFFIC HALTED

HUGE AREA EEPT “DEAD” BY AIR ATTACKS LONDON. Feb. W. "Ari authoritative source has ■ dis•closed that thousands of square Jtniles of north-weSterh northern Holland are ‘dead’ to-day as.a result of the Allies’ all-out air offensive last Week to destroy all the enemy's secondary road'and rail Communications." says Reuter’s correspondent at Field-Marshal Montgomery’s headquartCThe correspondent of the , British United Press at Field-Marshal Montgomery’s headqu&rters. says there is no sign of movement throughout the whole area nhrth of the Ruhynd wes of ’Osnabrueck. The marshalling yards at Muenster and Soest arA stnronly three-fifths operative afid little repair W "PUote of me°2nd Tactical Air Force over western Germany and northern Holland yesterday , reported increasing indications that the hitherto superefficient Germatt repair organisation IS now' breaking down," t says Reuters correspondent. "Some large mmshailing yards in the Ruhr appeared to be abaridorted as beyohd restoration to working order, , , , .... . • “The area affected by the Allied air offensive last Week, in which, traffic is now ’dead,’ extends fromnorth 61 gfi Ruhr almost to the North ,sea coast. It includes the Nimi network between OsnabruecK, Muenster, and Rheme, which are feeding centres for the great Ruhr marshalling yards,”