BRITISH ATTACK

New Zealand Herald, Volume 81, Issue 25053, 17 November 1944, Page 5

BRITISH ATTACK

"GOING FAIRLY FAST"

WATER MAIN OBSTACLE

LIMITS OF OFFENSIVE jjfetd. 5.35 p.m.) LONDON, Nov. 15 With General Dcmpsey's advanced units west of the Maas already (even miles and a-half ahead of the line from which they jumped off at 4 p.m. yesterday, Reuter's correspondent at 21st Army Group Headquarters tonight quotes Field-Mar-tbal Montgomery's spokesman as saying-: "The attack is going fairly fast and will continue to do so because there is nothing to stop it."

The spokesman deprecated any suggestion of a large-scale offensive, and described the operation merely as a ;iteady*paced infantry push designed to ■ dear out the last German pocket west «f the Maas and prepare the ground for i future operations. j Water so far is the main obstacle, and lite is little German resistance. The 'famans have left behind the usual ptiof mines in order to enable them io slip out of their positions quietly.

0a the northern flank, infantry Cached a point three miles east of the canal junction at Nederueert. In the centre British troops reached Leveroy. leren miles east of Weerb, and found it Unoccupied. On the southern flank, along the Nederweert-Wessen road, they are on the edge of Grathem, five mil® west of Roermond, and control ths road north-west from there for two or three miles.

An earlier message said that our wee bridgeheads over the Noord and lessen Canals had been joined up into cue solid lodgment, and another bridgeMad had been established over the Weskh Canal.

The British United Press correspondent says that British Second Army infantry today advanced, shrouded in ffi ist, across the most forlorn battlefield ®Hne whole of the Western Front, the blue tips of their noses visible under their balaclavas and tin fats. German prisoners occasionally i? m 0 bleak farmlands, which British barrage had pitted with waters.: The Germans were weary and apathetic. They complained of the Raiding terror of British flamewhich killed many of their Paratroopers.

AMERICAN OUTLOOK Political aspect of war w#d. 8.30 p.m.) LONDON, Nov. 16 when they first reached were largely non-political and te i y f or the end ot the war and Irf+ j ri * home as early as possible, iToctay they are changed men, 6tates A Co ™P oDdent oa t ' 3o Moselle £hey have seen Nazism at first »»«*« ?®. 8^a^es < "and they are now Citation crue^y « cheating and exI s k e Sular officer or eergeantJ.»ht think the young Americans *avAt m. e .d» however. .the American inn-f actl T, e ar, d intelligent co-opera-liinp° m ran ks has achieved great Ibflil 688 ® enerous and friendly young teonUi 8 along well with the 0... °* France, The French, neverSlat i. 6 [ e som ?times astounded at feal fZw asc "bed to a certain poliHea wo?«°^ e i nc j' or instance, FrenchOttma*• e " to see Americans giving Wetter tt P u lSoner ? 2°°d American cigKarca (.3 J o *? 30 ? 0 had long been and costly in France. ftann ma ave a ' so see " the Geroranges, which French chillers n. B n - ot pasted for vears. Happily, nnliK 6 i Sn3 tllat * n Germany itself frlEe lr or 4 social side of the battle conducted more realistically."

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