FORTRESS CITY
j®jG, OF STRONGPOINTS (NAZI COUNTER-BLOWS three attacks made LONDON, Nov. 12 Metz is surrounded by a ring of fortresses, of which the construction or modification was completed by Germany in 1911, says a correspondent at Supreme Headquarters. Nine hf these fortresses are described as ''fortified groups" in addition to jmaller forts and outworks. The gtronger part of the circle is to the jrest. • The fortresses are armed with guns 0 ; 100 mm. and 150 mm. calibre (4in md 6in). At one time there were between 80 and 90 artillery pieces for the protection of the city, but new guns, jnay hare been added, while others fort-not been repaired since demolition fork was carried out by the French in 1940, Some have been damaged by bombardment. HI Enemy Strength Displayed For the first time since the American fhird Army commenced its offensive, the Germans showed a display of itreagth when they counter-attacked three times, once in the area of Kerjag, three miles east of Konigsmaker, lid twice in the south, says a correspondent at Supreme Headquarters. The first German counter-blow came after the fort of Konigsmaker had fallen to oar troops. The enemy used both tanks »ad infantry, with the result that the 18th American Division was pushed lack about two miles before the attack «ts repulsed and the enemy tanks backed out. „,, . •The other two attacks fell in the ticinity of Chateau Salins, and were npelled by the 26th Infantry Division Tithout the loss of any ground. Tie Allied communique says Amenta infantry have restored their line ttoind the bridgehead at Konigsroier, which was dented by the Gerwa counter-attack. '•'The''Americans have now taken 3620 prisoners.
Total Advance of 15 Miles Utfl Associated Press correspondent mys American tanks drove two miles ums the Nied River to Herny, 15 miles south-east of Metz, and smashed ffliSre enemy supply lines to Metz. General Patton's armoured vanguards lire so far advanced 15 miles beyond iWr positions last Wednesday. The German news agency says the pat tank battle on the border of Lorraine is continuing at full pressure. American tank spearheads have penetrated into the region south of Morchingen, eight miles north-east of , Chateau Salins, where a second tank tale has developed. The Germans m ft® Lorraine sector were forced to dis-
engige in several places in face of a ftuoendous array of American material, the news agency's chief war correspondent, Gunther Weher, says that a battle involving 5,000,T>00 men will flare np at any hour. General Eisenhower's preparations for his general offensive are complete. General Patton las go far thrown in between 500 and KX) tanks. AACHEN AREA ENEMY COUNTER-ATTACKS LONDON, Nov. 12 German infantry and tanks counterattacked today south-west of Hurtgen, to the Aachen area, making a slight Penetration, but later they were forced to yield their gains under heavy artillery fire, says the Exchange Telepaph's correspondent with the American First Army. Rain fell all day. GAIN IN VOSGES WORST AUTUMN FOR YEARS Becd. 0,30 p.m.) - LONDON, Nov. 13 . Operations were virtually at a staudjjF'in most sectors southward of f, SD f to the Swiss frontier. People in WMs Vosges area say it has been the »o«t autumn for ten years. .Allied progress is reported from one P»rt, the upper valley of the River Meurtne. American Seventh Army Wops, after three weeks of slogging trough forest ground, have come out a narrow stretch of more open counJfand freed a village a mile from the j®Portant > traffic centre of St. Die. At •Wlo hand-to-hand fighting Role of hussars Reconnaissance unit VW- 0.30 p.m.) LONDON, Nov. 13 jw u^ art P la y« J 011 the Western to nr.?. a T craek British regiment, the ion Hussars, is described in Lon-
a bout a week after D Day, this tas been fighting as an !aS U reconnaissance unit of a «BmS US ari P? ur ed division. It probes in P° Sl "i° n s and strongpoints well i rm^f anco of the full strength of our «,,*(! "v an . ex P'°it3 opportunities to Itrrmij l c and break through Dartm , , enc:es ,- This regiment played a touth ofcf ga^ant parfc ' n 1G fighting
INACTIVITY IN HOLLAND ft,. , ; •• LONDON, Nov. 12 ktoA l S on Holland front consist a„° v, s^a tes a correspondent at tovif®/ 6rou P Headquarters. No a f«L ii? S i re P°rted on land, and **8(l in Were ma P' anes Kobot bomb attacks THfl r„ LONDON, Nov. 12 jMia BonU? < * n v a . Us ' 13-ton robot i«g t 0 tk ii ' . r ' l '. ll France, aceordJtotident ..IV A Press corresTbl 6 American Third pattered r." ?° ,ar ' lave keen ot i w ct s ve - ()ne robot r^ k We K* ai *? raffc g un - Airmi. ® attacked others.
PRISON HORRORS NAZI CAHPIN HOLLAND DUTCH JEWS MURDERED (Reed. 11.45 p.m.) NEW YORK, Nov. .13 A gruesonfe picture of Germany's largest concentration camp at Vught, Holland, is given in the New York Times by James Mac Donald, who inspected it. The camp covered 100 acres, and was divided into two sections. The one for ordinary internees contained nurseries, the Avails of which were decorated with illustrations of Red Riding Hood, Babes in the Wood, and other children's stories. The second section comprised the prison lime pits for bodies. There were also two large ovens and a mobile crematorium. The prison block contained two airtight cells, where victims were suffocated. On one occasion 94 women were imprisoned in these cells for 48 hours. Twenty-three died of suffocation. All the Jews who could be rounded up throughout Holland were brought to Vught. The Netherlands authorities are at present checking reports that the Nazis shot large groups of internees as a reprisal for sabotage by Dutch patriots, and also that the Germans murdered 400 internees on September 4 and 5, when the camp was hastily abandoned following a premature report that the British had captured the near by city of Breda.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume 81, Issue 25050, 14 November 1944, Page 5
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