SWEEP NORTHWARD
FORCES EAST OF THE RHINE LONDON, Mar. 21. Sweeping northward through weak German resistance, American troops in the Remagen bridgehead have reached the Sieg River on a four-mile front from the Rhine to Niederpleis, five miles north-east of Bonn, say correspondents with the First Army. The Seventy-eighth Division, which achieved this gain in a three and a-half-mile advance on a seven-mile front, is now on the outskirts of Siebieg, which is under point-blank fire from the American guns. The Seventyeighth captured at least seven towns and villages. The Germans apparently gave up hope of holding this attack, and pulled back behind the Sieg River, but they three times unsuccessfully counterattacked in an effort to recapture Eudenbach airfield. . Correspondents at Supreme Headquarters say the country north-east of Bonn is much flatter than, opposite Remagen, and will probably afford the First Army forces a good jumpingoff place for a drive into the heart of Germany.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 25801, 23 March 1945, Page 5
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