CEASED TO EXIST

Evening Post, Volume CXXXIX, Issue 91, 18 April 1945, Page 6

CEASED TO EXIST

Two Fronts in Germany .Rec. 2 p.m. LONDON. April 17. The German news agency' mili- , tary commentator said: "With the { enemy's break-through from east and west with a wedge pointing from both directions towards Berlin, the organic structure of the ■ Gesman front has ceased to exist. The terms "Western Front' and 'Eastern Front' have lost their meaning."

The commentator, for the first time, referred to "Fortress Bavaria," saying it will still play a big part in military history.

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of the Frisian Islands today in a persistently eastern movement, indicating .that the German High Command had called for a further evacuation of the ..western Holland rocket coast, says Reuters correspondent at Field-Marshal ; Montgomery's headquarters. Fighters -\ axtd fighter-bombers of the 2nd Tac- .; tical Air Force swept over the ships ■ and hit three 1000-tonners off Borkum I'-Island-in-the'first attack of the day. i Barges moving from the Zuider Zee i into. the Ems Estuary were bombed [from.a low level. Considerable barge vThqvements were seen in the Zuider f Zee in' the path of the Canadian | advance. :

!' Reports from the Tactical Air Force said,that more ships were steaming in (the lee of Terschelling Island.