NO NOTABLE SUCCESS

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

NO NOTABLE SUCCESS

GERMAN COUNTER-ATTACKS

ON FRONTIER . Rec! 12.40 p.m. LONDON, October 1. The Germans in the Stolberg area, east of Aachen, staged three counterattacks in drizzling rain and poor visibility, but failed to achieve any notable success, states a Reuter correspondent in a dispatch from headquarters of the United States First Army. The Germans south-west of Prum launched a vicious assault against the American positions. They used flame-throwers as they followed up one of the heaviest German artillery barrages. The enemy forced the Americans to yield some ground and also a pill-box in the Siegfried Line, but the Americans subsequently regained the ground and the pill-box. A British United Press correspondent with the Seventh Army says that a savage jungle type of warfare is in progress in the wooded foothills of the Vosges. Gerrhan snipers and ma-chine-gunners are guarding the forest trails with fanaticism. Infantry are frequently fighting at pistol range. The Germans in this area have laid mines haphazardly in fields, roads, and clearings in the forest, but the Americans, despite all the difficulties, are gradually edging towards the Rhine.

French civilians who slipped through the German lines from Belfort say that the Germans have massed ten divisions in tlie Bejfort area. They have mobilised Frenchmen throughout the area for forced labour on earthworks and other fortifications protecting the gap. Allied correspondents from other sectors' on the Western Front report spasmodic local engagements.