IN SARREGUEMINES

Manawatu Standard, Volume LXV, Issue 3, 1 December 1944, Page 5

IN SARREGUEMINES

THIRD ARMY'S PROGRESS. FIERCE SAAR OPPOSITION. (N.Z. Press Association.—Copyright.) (Rec. 10.50 p.m.) LONDON, Nov. 30. American Third Army forces aro now fighting in Sarreguemines, states an American broadcast from France. Our drive to the Saar is meeting fierce opposition, says the Renter correspondent -with the Third Army. The Germans are throwing in frequent counter-attacks with tanks and infantry and aro also shelling from east of the Saar. River, possibly from Siegfried Line forts. American armour beat off a heavy counter-attack east of Tettingen, 11 miles north-west of Merzig. They lost

aome ground at first but later regained it. The Americans pressed on to within one and a-half miles of Saarlouis after beating off 10 counter-attacks on a 10-mile front. The American First Army captured tho small town of Grosshau, a mile