LATE MESSAGES

Greymouth Evening Star, 26 October 1944, Page 5

LATE MESSAGES

■ RUSSIAN PROGRESS. LONDON, October 25. To-night’s Soviet communique states: Russians in the Libau sector repelled tank and infantry attacks and inflicted heavy losses. The Reu Army in East Prussia continued to advance, and captured several strongly fortified strongholds, including Matzukenmen, ten miles south-west of Gumbinnen. Russians, no .rt h -west of Praga in co-operation with units of the Ist Polish Army, occupied several localities, including Konty, Dombrowka and Pludy respectively, ten miles north, seven north-west, and six north-north-west of the centie• of Warsaw. The Russians also captuied Tarchonim, six miles north-west of Warsaw on the east bank of the Vistula. Russians in Cze t c^ s L?^\ a _’ north-east and south east 01. Munka cevo, captured 50 places. GAINS IN"HOLLAND T6NDON, Oct. 25. British troops, after a five mile advance from the east, were on the night of October 25,- within three thousand yards of Tilburg, says Reuter’s correspondent with the Second Army. Another thrust from the south reached Goorle. The Allied screen is firmly developing south-east ot iiiburg. Armoured reconnaissance units made progress upwards of eight miles against slight resistance. The German High Command evidently realising the situation is very dangerous, are reported to be evacuating the 111burg area. , A The Exchange Telegraph Agency correspondent says that British patrols on the night of October 25 were active more than a thousand yards ahead of the main line, harassing the retreating enemy. The British United Press correspondent says the battle for Hertogenbosch is still going on with the German artillery shelling the Allied-held parts of the town, cloud preventing air support which would have been most useful in knocking out the German eighty-eights. The Associated Press correspondent quoted a British spokesman as saying that half Hertogenbosch was in Allied hands. The British are engaging in fierce house-to-house bayonet fighting against bitter German resis-, tance. Dempsey’s gunners spared the historic section of Hertogenbosch, but German shells are now falling around the ancient cathedral, which the British seized after a day-long battle.