SNOW AND RAIN FALL ALL DAY

New Zealand Herald, Volume 81, Issue 25050, 14 November 1944, Page 5

SNOW AND RAIN FALL ALL DAY

EVIDENCE OF GERMAN WITHDRAWAL By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright ' (Received November 13, 6.45 p.m.) LONDON, November 13 | Cains of two miles are reported to have been made yesterday over the whole front of 20 miles between Metz and Nancy, says the Exchange Telegraph's correspondent at Supreme Headquarters. Jn one sector, a four-mile advance was made. General Patton's ; forces battled forward in a day of ceaseless snow and rain. Infantry cleared the Germans from the Chateau Salins forest, eays Reuter's correspondent with the Third Army. The threat to Metz. has been increased by American armour forcing several new crossings of the Nied River. The great guns of the Metz forts were still silent as the Americans closed in on the city. Units of the German garrison were observed last night withdrawing from Metz eastward along the two remaining highways yrhich arc still open to them, says the correspondent.""Long columns ' of vehicles, many of them drawn by horses, are streaming toward Germany through the steadily-falling snow. The correspondent also says that civilian refugees coming into the American lines yesterday state that the evacuation of Saarbrucken, the Great Saar Basin industrial communications i centre, has already started.