FALLING BACK

Evening Post, Volume CXXXIX, Issue 99, 28 April 1945, Page 8

FALLING BACK

ENEMY IN THE NORTH

Rec. 1.30 p.m. LONDON, April 27. T^e enemy in north-western Germany appears to be falling back to a new defence line in front of Emden and WHhelmshaven- as the Poles and Canadians keep up the pressure against the key town of Oldenburg, reports the correspondent of the Associated Press of Great Britain with the Canadians. The Germans are preparing to withdraw to a line based on their western pivot. The fighting on the approaches to Oldenburg, where the Canadians are making slow and painful gains, is as grim as in Normandy. One Canadian officer said: "We have not killed so many Germans since Falaise. They are coming over in waves, and dying practically on the muzzles of our guns."

Without advancing a yard, the 9th Army yesterday took prisoner 4461 Germans, says Reuters correspondent at SHAEF. The Germans, in their anxiety to avoid the Russians, streamed into American camps along the Elbe in hundreds. The entire Latvian SS regiment, stationed in eastern Berlin, fought its way through the RussoGerman lines and surrendered to the Americans.

Tonight's Soviet communique says that troops of the 3rd White Russian Command today advanced seven miles along the Frische-Nehrung. They took 300U prisoners yesterday. Troops of the Ist White Russian Command fighting in Berlin, occupied the district of Neukolln and the Templehof Aerodrome. Eight thousand five hundred prisoners were taken yesterday and 26 planes and tanks were captured The Russians, continuing the battles in the south-western area of Berlin captured the districts of Steglitz and on™3 rgendorf ' and yesterday took dOQO prisoners and captured 85 planes.