ALSACE ADVANCE

Evening Post, Volume CXXXVIII, Issue 125, 23 November 1944, Page 8

ALSACE ADVANCE

ALLIES CONVERGE ON STRASBOURG

(By Telegraph—Press Association— Copyright.) LONDON. November 22. The hardest fighting on the Western Front today has been in the north, . and the most spectacular advances in the south. In the south, troops and tanks of the French First Army and the American Seventh Army are engaged in a remarkable encircling movement in the Vosges, aimed at trapping the German armies, and the French are playing a big role. They have armoured columns north and south of the Vosges and are thrusting ahead over the Alsace plain in an attempt to cut off the enemy's retreat before he can fall back. In the north, .French armour is reported 18 miles from Strasbourg, on the Rhine. The French are being supported by units of the 15th Corps bf the American Seventh Army, and they have reached the Alsace plain less than 20 miles from Strasbourg. Elements, of the Third Army penetrated into the Maginot Line, six miles from the German border and four miles west of St. Avoid, states the British United Press correspondent with the Third Army. The Exchange Tele- > graph SHAEF correspondent reports that the Americans have reached the German frontier at two undefined places.