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ADVANCE Of ALLIES LONDON, April 10.—First Army units entered Nordhausen after advancer of 40 m in one day, state correspond The 9th Army forces tr Bn: "wtc'-.. Advancing columns are now throwing a loop round Effurt, a large town l". central Germ' ; . stated Reuter’• correspondent with tho 3rd Army m Thuringia. He added that the f 11 <■ ' the town seemed only a matter of t me. Hundreds of fJ'mes attacking in waves blasted the rerc .n of Schweinfurt. once Germany's rr.-:ti important ball-bearing production town, stated Reuter's correspondort watched the bombers from a hole m ands o**shop When the bom* . rr. ment ended VnPets were fired calling on the remaining defenders to surrender. The prisoners include boys m their teens, some only 32, who 6aid soldiers had bribed them with cigarettes to help with anti-aircraft i vhich put up weak resistance. Gen. indent v; :th . e British 2nd Army, de added that the 6th Airborne’ Divison in a drive to 12 miles eastward “rom Leine, which was almost unop)osed, captured Fuhrberg, 12 miles lalf-way point on the road to Beriui. rhe. division also took Bissendorf, 9 nen under his command has been sent
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 80, 11 April 1945, Page 6
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