FIGHTING IN SNOW

New Zealand Herald, Volume 81, Issue 25048, 11 November 1944, Page 7

FIGHTING IN SNOW

TROOPS NEAR AACHEN quiet on dutch front SOUTH OF JIAAS CLEARED (Hoed. 6JO p.m.) LONDON, Nov. 10 There has been more hard fighting oil the American First Army front east of Aachen, with the troops making small local advances. The Americans are fighting in a newly fallen blanket of snow. Vossenack is held partly by the enemy and partly by the Allies. "Generally speaking," says Renter's correspondent, "we held the entire fronts today, with some small gains in the Hurtgen area." Id the south-west Netherlands all German resistance south of the Maas Ms ended. The last enemy pocket at m end of the broken Moerdijk bridge collapsed yesterday under the attack of Polish troops of the Canadian First Array. The armies of Field-Marshal Montgomery now hold an unbroken line i ilong the south bank of the Maas. lie Allied armies on the northern Dutch front are experiencing one of tie quietest days since D Day, says one The weather has turned caßer, with sleet and snow. Bad rather yesterday grounded most of our maft in the Low Countries. German resistance has ceased also on the, flooded island of Walcheren. Two small German groups are still at large, but they have ceased fire and say they want to surrender. They will be c<*l- - as soon as Allied troops can cross the flood separating their positions from our own.

GALLANT POLES V , MURDEROUS ASSAULT LONDON, Nov. 9 Polish troops captured Moerdijk after I three-day, assault which was one of tie bitterest of the campaign, says the Associated Press correspondent in Holland. They had to blast their way through a ring of concrete blocks, pilltees and hunkers, where a suicide garrison was holding out. The Poles, tinder continuous and merciless shellfire from the German guns in the pocket and from the north bank bf th© Maas., ran guns and tanks up to within 20ft of the concrete walls protecting the pocket. They blew two gaps in the wall, pushed tanks and infantry through and then closed with the Germans inside the fortress, charging enemy guns and storming pillboxes and bunkers. . The Germans fired every weapon thev had into the gaps, but the Poles advanced yard by yard, their guns, tanks told infantry slamming back shells and ballets. Reserve troops following up the tanks' burst into the inner perimeter Mid finally overcame resistance. TRIBUTE TO BELGIANS EIBENHOWER IN BRUSSELS LONDON, Nov. 9 'We have an enemy who understands W one thing—force—and we intend to apply force to the uttermost extent to win victory," said General Eisen™wer, Allied Supreme Commander in la ! addressing a joint assembly 1 the Belgian Houses of Parliament in wassels. "Final victory is certain, but ®ach remains to be done to reach our Wmmon goal, which is the complete weteat of the enemy. I know you will TOinue to give us help on the same generous scale as in the past." ueneral Eisenhower, who was accompanied by a number of Allied service t jl 3 ' me luding Air Chief-Marshal tedder. General Brtidley. Admiral R?.mthV?i r Marshal Coninglmm, said they had come to express their Ration for Belgian fortitude sni T 1 our years of Nazi oppression ttm u i thank tliem for the part jj»J had taken in their own liberation. 2L® ave a pledge that as far as the ;. ai 7 necessity of defeating the Geraw permitted "you will get everyU g n n e i C - n bri " K you -" 1 Uie Belgian Prime Minister, M. Pieru,' la said that conquered in Halo? ffeo s a "d occupied for 42 months, jiiJrP-) was almost entirely liberated "eight days. AJMS OF NEW FRANCE V'thority of the state t„ ~ „ LONDON, Nov. 8 KatimTof ? rst R d c 'rcss to the French 'lid t, sem bl.Y, General de Gaulle Wer fl«» rance ' s aims were victory SQvern;^i'l llaily \ restoration of national f epublio? 0 maintenance of the ?»oucan system. i!ugi 0n G » W ? r be carried to a conWthon'tv V'l tlle on, y !cj Sa! stored in nc °H State—must be oatinot nnn 3 i i! ' Persona l interests without . ' le w °rk of restoration %re k J?° urnn ® guilt, although l?mbers^r r +u Son * w^y , e opinions of differ.". I Assembly should not a??5 EY AND FRANCE The LONDON, Nov. 9 Souncinl li!! Government, after anr, recognition of General de Wmer S" 111 '' has *PP°<nted ,J re| K" Aliuistor, M. Mene- ' V Ambassador to Paris. rec °S nis ed the Italian