ANTWERP BATTLE
TENACIOUS DEFENCE
. . LONDON, October 3. A miniature war is in progress on Antwerp's doorstep in an area. 1000 yards square, where British gunners, British and Canadian infantry, and Belgian patriots are mopping up 2000 Germans and several thousand collaborators who are holding out tenaciously in the north-eastern suburb of Antwerp, states, a Reuter correspondent.
The centre of enemy resistance is a five-storey brick and stone chateau which has been holding up the Allied advance. The British forces are now using anti-aircraft guns on a flat trajectory.,firing from a range of 1500 yards. There is a fantastic no-man's-land of buildings, docks, boats, and bridges m .which, our infantry is stalking the enemy. An Associated Press correspondent says that collaborators, including a leading blackshirt in Belgium who was an arch supporter of the Nazis before the liberation of Antwerp, are helping the Germans iii sniper warfare from the windows of multistoreyed tenements.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXVIII, Issue 82, 4 October 1944, Page 5
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152ANTWERP BATTLE Evening Post, Volume CXXXVIII, Issue 82, 4 October 1944, Page 5
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