CALAIS SURRENDERS

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

CALAIS SURRENDERS

ciently to necessitate a winter campaign. They are using a large percentage of battle-tried troops who are asfcnig no quarter, but are prepared to redden the banks of the Dutch canals with their blood in order to give Hitler a few extra months."

. A correspondent of the Associated ; Press of Great Britain = says- that the Dritish oh the west flank of General Dempsey's : corridor advanced several :_miles against a strongly defended German sector south of the town of Oss ■'.and that bitter fighting is in progress, ".with the Germans battling fiercely for '(every foot of ground. /- -0 It is revealed that United States air.iborne troops who were dropped in Holland are now fighting side by side >yith the British Second Army iiT the Dutch corridor.

Berlin radio says that armies estimated to total three million men are ■ now locked- in battle along a 300-mile ::front from Arnhem to the Alps. General Eisenhower, it said, is using four armies, two of which have opened offensives on a grand scale. The Germans are fighting back doggedly at danger points.* A German hews agency commentator, yon Platow, said, "The British are trying to widen the bridgehead in the Nijmegen area, where the fighting Itoday assumed major proportions. Canadians in southern Holland caused heavy fighting when they enlarged their bridgehead north of Oostmalle and established themselves north-west of Turnhout."

4000 PRISONERS TAKEN

Rec. 10.15 a.m. LONDON, October 1. All organised resistance in Calais ceased late last night. The total of Germans taken prisoner exceeds 4000, including the commander of the . garrison, Colonel bchoerner, who is reported to have expressed contempt for tlie German infantry under his command but to have thought highly of his big-jjun crews.

More prisoners are coming in, and ™. final figure is expected to be about oUUU.-

_ The Canadian casualties during the investment of Calais are reported to have been light, but the last assault was very hard going. \A correspondent with the Canadians says the Germans went on firing as long as they were behind their concrete fortifications, but gave themselves up the moment they came face to face with the Canadians.

The surrender came 12 hours after the new -attack against the port launched by. the Canadians, -following, the truce made to allow civilians to be evacuated. This attack was preceded by heavy aerial and artillery bombardment, after which Canadian infantry using, flame-throwers rushed the defences. Success was almost immediate. There had been earlier cvi-

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