FORWARD EVERYWHERE

Evening Post, Volume CXXXVIII, Issue 82, 4 October 1944, Page 6

FORWARD EVERYWHERE

.; . ALUES.NORTH OF ANTWERP i ~ Rec. 1. p.m. ~> LONDON, October 3.! ■"*'*' Polish grmoured .units with the First Canadian Army today rolled across the -Dutch border north of Turnhout and , by nightfall',were two miles into Holland in the direction of Baarle Nassau, states Reuters correspondent -with the ~' Canadian Army. The Poles are meeting only slight opposition from the - Germans, who are pulling out ahead ,"of them. .Other Polish units have . driven eastward and occupied Weelde, - • which the Germans had evacuated.' The Canadians have now cleared the entire' dock "area of Antwerp. Men-of the Belgian "White Army" ' are everywhere assisting the Canadians, garticularly in the area along the south ank of the Scheldt. The Canadians -^are continuing to expand the bridgehead on the Turnhout-Antwerp Canal, and are also clearing - pockets south of the canal. There was. activity late -today everywhere on this front, -with the Allies edging forward and the'front broadening hourly. . ■A Canadian Press correspondent says that other Canadians, operating from the bridgehead at St. Leonard, occupied a small town eight miles north- - east of Antwerp. It is revealed today that the Allies encountered the Ninth S.S. Division in the Arnhem' area. The German divisions otherwise, are a very mixed lot. It is candidly admitted that .the Germans are fighting well, if not wisely. However, Germany is believed tb be short of equipment in addition to men and the time is coming when the fighting spirit will.not suffice: