Germans In Holland

Evening Post, Volume CXXXVIII, Issue 80, 2 October 1944, Page 5

Germans In Holland

BLOWS BY TYPHOONS

t> -n *By Te'egrafih—Press Association—Copyright.) Kee. 11 a.m. LONDON, October 1' . _ ■ pc Germans are counter-attacking heavily in the Huisen area", about eight miles north of Nijmegen, where the Allied corridor running to Arnhem is about 10 miles wide, states a Eeuter correspondent with the British Second Army, in a dispatch filed at 5.30 p.m. today. Allied rocket-firing Typhoons are smashing against German tanks and infantry which are attempting t$ chance south-

.This attack is believed to be another desperate German attempt to smash the Nijmegen bridgehead. Typhoons caught the Germans at Pannerdensch Canal, which rims north-west from the .Waal to the Neder Rhine.

-It remains to be seen whether this German counter-attack is being co-ordinated with other enemy onslaughts from the area of the Eeichswald forest to the south-east. >

The British United Press correspondent says that the German attack at Huisen follows similar smaller attacks in the same area in the past 24 hours. The Germans clearly still hope to eliminate the British salient.

The Germans were first reported to be crossing the Paiinerdensch Canal this morning. They were still developing, their counter-attack late this 1 + irnos. n ' b"t our Typhoons may have taken the sting out of it. Fighting is stiffening all around our salient, but this battle at the northern tip of the salient is most significant, as the Ger--5S *eS. t° cut off the SerlL arrow directed at FANATICAJL GERMAN TROOPS. '**"%*£■ -'WS?B-' elsewhere in Holland is not-a battle with a front line- it is a series of jptter local engagements ■against- groups -of German fanatics moving suddenly from the copses, and also against groups of tanks which are •hurled; against the British," the correspondent says. "It is officially stated that there is no sign that the Germans are withdrawing, either from the area between the Zuider Zee and Arnhem or. from the area north-east of Antwerp.- V . - U1"

.. The .result of the present fighting m Holland may decide the length of the war. The Germans are trying to contain and harass the Allies' sufii-