Counter-Attacks By The Germans

Evening Post, Volume CXXXVIII, Issue 79, 30 September 1944, Page 7

Counter-Attacks By The Germans

, JLlvtHr GAIN MADE

■■.-■■■.. • ■ LONDON, September 29. The Germans are launching' more or less continuous counterattacks against the steadily expanding' British salient in Holland. Most of these attacks are coming- from the area south-east of fNijmegen. Yesterday three of them were smashed, but in one attack today the Germans made a slight gain against American troops ■and British tanks.

i ".. The Luftwaffe lias been out in greater strength today over the fNijmegen area, trying to destroy the vital bridge across the Waal ,at Nijmegen. The Germans have managed to' land only one or ftwo bombs nearby, and have paid a heavy price. Canadian pilots shot down 22 of the German planes.

At the tip of the salient, German troops who crossed the lower Rhine •west of Arnhem have failed to estab[lish a bridgehead on the southern ■hank of the river, and the last Temnants of the German forces are now being toopped up.

.On the eastern flank of the Allied salient all the Germans have been ■driven back across the Maas except If or one small pocket on our side of (the,river. Ort the western flank of salient the Germans are putting up tetiff 'resistance seven miles from a jjtpwn which dominates the only land "gap left for the Germans still fin x western Holland.

is^A- 24-hour truce is in operation at [Calais. A correspondent says ,it was fagreed to to enable the civilians in fine town to get away. At a parley ithis morning the Germans asked that be declared ail open city, but jthey were told that they must fight ipr surrender unconditionally. - They [asked for a 48-hours' truce to evacuate [civilians, and were told it would have •to be 24 hours. or nothing. V'Canadians have captured Cape Gris ;Nez, 13 miles south-west of Calais. ,They took 200 prisoners and eight guns firing across the Channel.