DIRECT THREAT

New Zealand Herald, Volume 82, Issue 25172, 9 April 1945, Page 5

DIRECT THREAT

A Ninth Army correspondent, who reported General Simpson's troops 11 miles south of Hanover, added that this advance was achieved through the crossing of the Leine River, south of Hanover, by the 2nd Armoured Division and the reaching of the highway three miles north of Hildesheim. Reuter's Stockholm correspondent reports that the Germans have suspended Baltic traffic over the train ferry from Gjedeer t-o Warnemunde, presumably to clear the lines for troops from Denmark to reinforce the North German front threatened by the British advance.

HANOVER AND BREMEN ARMOURED SPEARHEADS LACK OF OPPOSITION (Reed. 7.30 p.m.) LONDON, April 8 Hanover, the important industrial and communication city east of the River Weser, is now under direct threat from British armoured spearheads, supported by columns approaching from the west and United States Ninth Army spearheads from the south, says a correspondent at Field-Marshal Montgomery's headquarters. The British 7th Armoured Division was last, night reported ten miles south of Bremen. The British 6th Airborne Division is the same distance from Hanover. while American Ninth Army forces are ten miles away from Hanover and have slashed through the road running south from Hanover to Hildesheim. No opposition of any importance is reported. The most interesting development yesterday on the right wing of Montgomery's front was the great roll forward of the British 7th Armoured Division, tanks spearheading all over the roads south of Bremen, with 11th Hussars columns in 'the van.