CALL FOR BIG EFFORT

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 21605, 6 January 1945, Page 3

CALL FOR BIG EFFORT

SIXTH ARMY GROUP NAZIS TACTICAL GAINS (11 a.m.) LONDON, Jan. 5. General J. Devers, in an Order of the Day to his troops of the Sixth Army Group consisting of the American Seventh and French First Armies, said: “The winning of a decisive victory is in your hands. The enemy’s desperate counter-offensive north has now been successfully blunted, and now the enemy is probing the lines of the American Seventh and French First Armies looking for weaknesses. I am confident that your strength ancl courage, which triumphed over him on every battlefield from the Normandy beach-head to the Rhine, will not fail.”

The correspondent of the Now York Times at Supreme Allied Headquarters says that the growing success of General Eisenhower’s counter-offen-sive against the German salient in the north must be balanced by the Seventh Army’s withdrawal from German soil in the south from Sarreguemines eastward to the Rhine. The movement may not be important strategically, but is tactically important and is certainly a decided political advantage for the Nazis, who have now cleared the invaders from German soil on a wide stretch and again invaded Alsace.