CANAL BRIDGEHEADS
CANADIANS IN FURIOUS BATTLE BRISTLING GERMAN STRONGPOINTS (Rec. 11.5 a.m.) LONDON, Oct. 6. Canadian troops are still battling to establish bridgeheads across the Leopold Canal says Reuter's correspondent at Twenty-first Army Group headquarters in _ a despatch to-night. Furious fighting went on all day, in which the Canadians suffered some reverses against stiffening resistance. The German garrison has turned every house, cottage, barn, and windmill into a strongpoint bristling with mortars and machine-guns. Reuter's correspondent witli the Second Tactical Air Force says indications are mounting that the German High Command has decided to pull out some of the _ 100.000 troops now gravely menaced in Western Holland. Tactical Air Force Mosquitoes are taking immediate advantage of these moves.
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Evening Star, Issue 25300, 7 October 1944, Page 7
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118CANAL BRIDGEHEADS Evening Star, Issue 25300, 7 October 1944, Page 7
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