BRILLIANT MOVE

Evening Post, Volume CXXXVI, Issue 87, 9 October 1943, Page 8

BRILLIANT MOVE

GEN. MONTGOMERY

GAIN IN COUNTER-ATTACK

(By^ Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright.) Kec. 2,/ p.m. LONDON, October 8. • The most recent Allied gains are not spectacular, but the troops are advancing^; in> a scrambling fight through asiQuntain defiles and maintaining a firm-link between the Fifth and Eighth Armies. -^ ■■■ vttie, rbad: .weather, which is unfavourable'for flying conditions, is adding .to the difficulties of the Eighth Arniy.!s<- advance. Nevertheless, the Eighth , Army counter-attacked and took' high gfbund above Termoli. This counter-rstroke by General Montgomery | is described toy Reuters correspondent as brilliants .. The Eighth Army has met several attacks, from-the 16th Panzer Division, which has not proved as threatening as-'/was -at: first expected. It appears thjat-the;division has only about 30 tanks operating, while prisoners cap-tured-indicate that the majority of the troops are Alsatians, Czechs, and Poles. The "Daily Mail" correspondent with the Eighth Army says that Field Marshal Kesselring has clearly allowed the two halves of his retreat to become: unbalanced. The Eighth Army was allowed to advance too fast and too'far, and it drove so far north of •the Fifth. Army that it threatened to outflank the Germans. The capture of Termoli in particular seems to have thrown the. enemy defences out of . gear. •; ■:" ■ '■■■■■ ■' ■ '■ - •'