BATTLE FOR BREMEN

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 80, 10 April 1945, Page 2

BATTLE FOR BREMEN

GERMANS FALLING BACK ON SUBURBS London, April 9. “The battle for Bremen is beginning and the Germans are falling back on the suburbs,” states a British United Press correspondent. “The Germans are so much on the run that they had no time to get dynamite gangs working. German gunners around Bremen are shelling our lines with self-propelled guns which move at night-time to take up new positions, but the enemy has lost nearly all his big guns and dumps. Every shell screaming over our lines brings the Germans nearer to the end of their resources. “With every war factory under fire from the air and all his communications being bombed and gunned throughout the day, the enemy ought to know his efforts have only a nuisance value. Our Long Toms.and field artillery are now in position in great strength around Bremen and more guns are moving up hourly. It seems unbelievable, but among the prisoners there are still some who think Hitler can produce some sort of last minute wizardly to save Germany and even win the war. These men appear to believe that so long as there is a German alive he will fight even behind his lines.” RAILWAY BRIDGE OVER RHINE FIRST ALLIED TRAIN CROSSES (Rec. 12.15 p.m.) London, April 9. The first Allied train to-day crossed the Rhine over a bridge built by American engineers in eleven days, reports the British United Press correspondent. Engineers worked continuous day and night shifts. Five hundred to a thousand wagons to-day crossed the bridge which can handle the heaviest goods train in Europe.