SIX MILES BEYOND ELBE

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 80, 1 May 1945, Page 5

SIX MILES BEYOND ELBE

BRITISH SECOND ARMY PRISON CAMP CAPTURED London, April 30. The British Second Army has driven six miles beyond the Elbe and captured Gulzow, five miles north-west of Lauenberg, and lengthened its bridgehead to seven miles. American airborne troops fighting under British command crossed the Elbe 10 miles upstream from Lauenberg. The Guards Armoured Division captured Sandbostel prison camp. Guards advancing to the outskirts of Bremervorde were delayed by road demolitions for which German marines used sea nines. GREAT PORTS CUT OFF (Rec. 11.30 a.m.j London. April 30 British troops punched a bridgehead across the Elbe to a depth of ten miles to-day, says a correspondent. \t some points there was brisk fighting, but generally our troops found the enemy showing little heart to put up serious opposition. A Luftwaffe attack on two bridges we now have across the Elbe River, over which our armour is swarming, was abortive. Germany’s last great North Sea ports of Hamburg Bremerhaven. Wilhelmshaven and Emden are now hopelessly cut off from the rest of the Reich as Field-Marshal Montgomery's armies are moving in for the kill Twin Canadian columns are c.osins in on Oldenburg Canadian vanguards are' in the outskirts of the port of Delfzijl, where the Germans are blowing up guns and endeavouring to get away. The Canadians captured an entire battalion in the new' advance. ANOTHER LINK-UP The Associated Press of Great Britain correspondent with the Ninth Army says the Russians and Americans have linked up on the Elbe River front, south of Magdeburg. Elements of the Ninth United States Army to-day contacted Russian forces at Apollensdorf, 14 miles north-east of Dessau, according to a correspondent at SHAEF. The junction was made at 1.30 p.m. ADVANCE OF FRENCH ARMY Paris radio announced that the French First Army troops have crossed the Austrian frontier near Bregnez and entered Friedrichshafen. BIG BAG OF PRISONERS London, April 30. The Allies on Saturday took 74.986 prisoners, states a communique from Supreme Headquarters.