GERMAN TRANSPORT HAMMERED

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 79, 27 September 1944, Page 5

GERMAN TRANSPORT HAMMERED

R.A.F. ROCKET-FIRING PLANES London, Sept. 25. R.A.F. rocket-firing planes defying bad weather in the past 48 hours have been hammering against considerable German transport. The movement northwards from west Holland through the 25-mile gap between Arnhem and the Zuider Zee, states Reuter’s correspondent with the Tactical Air Force in Belgium. Allied planes attacked many trains leaving the German sack between the sea and General Dempsey’s corridor across Holland. Typhoons and Mustangs in a few hours yesterday shot up 30 trains, the majority of which were heading for north Germany and others are travelling towards Arnhem. These movements are occurring north of the line Antwerp-Turnhout Canal. Mosquitoes early to-day ranged over a wide area under heavy rainclouds and continued the destruction of German transport. Typhoons are also giving th2 hard-pressed airborne troops close support, sending streams of rockets into German gun and mortar positions 130 yards from airborne troops. Our rocket firing planes last week would have prevented the Germans concentrating sufficient men and material to worry the airborne forces but the weather was consistently bad and again favoured the Germans. However the airmen are determined to provide some support and are taking off under conditions which at other times would have kept the planes on the ground. ANOTHER HEAVY BLOW GERMAN TRANSPORT ROUTES London, Sept. 26. Allied heavy bombers which to-day hammered marshalling yards and other targets in the Rhine Valley struck another heavy blow at German transport routes feeding supplies and reinforcements to the zone now under attack by the British Second Army and the American First Army. TRAINS FULL OF LOOT FANTASTIC COLLECTION OF THINGS London, Sept. 26. About a dozen German trains which were stranded in the railway yard at Nijmegen are full of loot, says the “Daily Express” correspondent. There is one whole train packed with parcels German soldiers were sending home. A fantastic collection of things spilled out when some were opened. The parcels, which are addressed to fraulein this or that, contained a gross of curi tain rings, a dozeij bicycle pumps, and a half a dozen boxes of cut-throat razors. There were dental instruments, cases of hair oil, sets of engineerir g tools, and boxes of aspirin. The idea simply was to grab everything—not one or two but by the gsoss. Some Germans had raided bookshops. They had bundled up 50 copies of the same book and sent them off from pure lust of possession.