BATTLE IN HOLLAND

Evening Post, Volume CXXXVIII, Issue 80, 2 October 1944, Page 6

BATTLE IN HOLLAND

British Hold Attacks

•a • ~,-.. • 'LONDON, October 1. A grim battle is now raging af the tip of the salient between the two branches of the lower Rhine as a result of the major counterattack launched by the Germans.. The British troops have held their

The German columns have made their biggest effort south-east of Arnhem. One of their aims is to drive the British from the Nijmegen bridgehead, and, according to a correspondent, it looks as if the Germans still cherish hopes of biting off the vital territory held in that area by the British.

- ,^hile this bitter fighting is going on other _ Second Army men, including Americans, are expanding and consolidating their positions.' The Germans are reported to be making a big effort to hold a corridor through which to ge mutnei r men from the Scheldt basin. - The Americans fighting in -the Siegiried Line are faced with some tough opposition, but have repelled counterattacks and made further progress

(By Telegraph—Pi-ess Association—-Copyright.. Re. c- 1.30 p.m. • LONDON, October 2. A German High Command statement which was quoted by Berlin radio states that • a defensive battle in the

area of the Lorraine frontier and' before the . Belfort Gap is now in progress at full blast. "The Americans in the past few days," it says, "have been launching unremitting attacks supported by massed artillery against the wooded regions south-east of Luneville and south of Rarnbervillers A particularly grim struggle is in progress on a 37mile front in the footnills of the western Vosges. Our counter-attacks have pinned down the enemy and considerably reduced the | r°"n4 ,f rom which he hoped to attack Belfort. A^German news agency commentator Plato said: '^As a result of the most recent fighting we have 'lost Rarnbervillers. The full-scale attacks of the American Third and Seventh Armies are continuing with mounting ferocity " Canadian troops reached the BelgianDutch frontier today south-west of Tilburg says a Reuter correspondent with the First Canadian Army They are now poised for entry into Holland apparently against diminishing German resistance. Other Canadian units drivtufed^ftht ord^ fUrth6r West cap-