BETTER STILL

Evening Post, Volume CXXXVIII, Issue 156, 30 December 1944, Page 7

BETTER STILL

Ardennes Position

NO ENEMY GAINS

While our artillery fire has Lattere'd down the German hordes, Rundstedt still has a. formidable . striking force. A stiff and bloody battle had'to be fought for Humain. Allied forces surrounding a German group in the woods around Celles took v more than a thousand prisoners and a quantity of German armoured yehicles and weapons, -' An attack by two German com panics north-west of Geilenkirchen yesterday resulted in the Germans over-running two villages, which, . however, the Allies immediately re- - took, with seventy prisoners. North-east of Martelange the Americans crossed the Eiver Sure on a seven-mile front and between Roche- ■ fort and Celles encircled a German formation which was being ground down' by artillery. There were no . changes in the" Monschau-Malmedy -sector. Heavy pressure was maintained against the Germans between ■ Marche and Maiihay. Patrols and counter-patrols continue in the Saint Hubert sector, where no sharp line of demarcation can yet be drawn. Reuters war correspondent in Belgium states that the Germans in one sector are reported to be carrying out . a • disorganised . withdrawal, with •General Patton's troops hard on their neels. German pressure is decreasing on the 25-mile .front between Sta.velot and Hotten and they, are on the defensive in several sectors.

(By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright.) Eec. 10 a.m. LONDON, December 29. More American gains, more German losses, is the order on the Western Front, says Reuters correspondent. The Germans have made no gains in the past forty-eight hours. We have broken up the attack, and won back some villages, and have also captured many hundreds of prisoners. The report of decreasing- German pressure on the northern flank is most significant, as this is where, in the first flush of his success, Rundstedt massed his armour and artillery.