"A VERY BLOODY NOSE"

Evening Post, Volume CXXXVIII, Issue 136, 6 December 1944, Page 5

"A VERY BLOODY NOSE"

GERMANS IN HOLLAND

(By Tcicuraph—Press Association—CopyriQht.) Rec. 11.40 a.m. LONDON, December 5. The whole of Saarlautern is in American hands except for minor mopping up, says Reuters correspondent with the Third Army. American infantry one and a half miles northeast of the town are fighting in the outer defences of the Siegfried Line. Reuters correspondent in Holland says that Field-Marshal Montgomery's spokesman said that the Germans attempting to infiltrate into the Nijmegen bridgehead today took "a very bloody nose." They lost 50 killed and 110 who were taken prisoner. The flooding which resulted from the Germans cutting the dikes has forced a rearrangement of the Canadian positions. The situation on the Ninth Army's front has become practically static, says Reuters correspondent with the Ninth Army. There have been no changes since yesterday in the forward positions anywhere. The Germans continue to pour artillery fire into the American positions around Beeck, and are also keeping up moderate mortar and artillery fire from their position east of the Roer River between Linnich and Julich.