MORE AGGRESSIVE NOW

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

MORE AGGRESSIVE NOW

ENEMY/IN ALL SECTORS

t (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright.) 'Ree. 12.10 p.m; LONDON, Sept. 29. -■•A German counter-attack launched fup the road from Kranenburg, eight ;miles south-east of Nijmegen, gained some local success, says a British United Press correspondent with the [British Second Army. The Germans itook 200 yards of ground.' -Fighting is continuing. - , The enemy bridgehead over the ;Neder Rhine has been reduced to a number-of scattered troops and virtually eliminated.

.Determined German resistance at Schijndel has temporarily held up the [British thrust towards Hertogenbosch [from the north-west of St. Oedenrode. -The Germans are using Schijndel as ithe focal point of their defence system, but British tanks are rolling into against it. The Germans have become more aggressive on all sectors, of the British Second Army front, says Reuters correspondent. Last night they attempted to throw a bridgehead across ;i;he Neder Rhine near Heveadorn, five miles west of Arnhem, under cover of Idarkness. They are now being forced iback in very fierce fighting. THICKENING OF CORRIDOR. X

Canadian' troops advanced two or three miles across the Turnhout Canal.

' Another Reuter correspondent says .that General Dempsey's armour and artillery are striking a succession of heavy blows on both sides of the main corridor stretching northward jtp- the Neder Rhine. Long columns, •protected by mobile ack-ack guns, line the main roads through Holland. .The whole Second Army is filtering into new hard-won high ground 'around Niimegen and into the box (between the Waal and the Neder {Rhine.

ji|The British corridor between :NijJmegen and Elst and right up to the south bank of the Neder Rhine west Jpf Arnhem every hour is becoming stronger and thicker and more densely populated with men, guns, and lanks.. ...

A British United Press correspondent says ttne British are steadily infcreasing their hold on the triangle the Waal and the Neder Stfrine east of Elst and are pushing out ■westward in tough fighting. A solid swedge of Allied-held country now extends for more than 10 miles east and West from Waal to the Neder Rhine inprth-west of Nrjmegen. It is still jbeihg steadily extended by our troops, byho.i are probing out against stiff opposition. Our whole Dutch salient is Stiffening and becoming a firmer (bastion. •• v It' is revealed that picked Dutch (commandos who were brought from (Burma to Britain landed with and Sought alongside the British airborne Itroops at; Arnhem. i. -The fighting in Holland has entered •the interim stage, says the German mews agency commentator, Captain Sertorius. Both sides are gathering <fpr a ■ great new trial of strength. Serttbrius predicts that the second storm [centre of the Allied offensive can be ■expected in the southern sector, with (the object of breaking through the (Belfort Gap.