ACROSS THE RHINE
MR CHURCHILL VISITS TROOPS TOUR OF WESEL BRIDGEHEAD LONDON, Mar. 25. Mr Churchill accompanied Fieldmarshal Montgomery to the other side of the Rhine .to-day, and visited troops in areas which 36 hours previously had been occupied by the enemy, cables a correspondent at Fieldmarshal Montgomery’s headquarters. Mr Churchill looked extremely well and pleased, and the commander-in-chief was heard to say he was well satisfied with the progress of the baitle.
After crossing the Rhine, Mr Churchill strolled round the bridgehead and climbed one of the great embankments which had been the scene of a fierce battle, and discussed the operation with General Simpson, states the British United Press correspondent with the Ninth Army. Mr Churchill then took a short trip on the Rhine in a landing craft. He said he would like to see Wesel, so the party drove north, and from the top of the ruins of the Wesel bridge Mr Churchill inspected the town through field-glasses. Rifle and machine-gun fire could be distinctly heard. Big guns were firing ail the time.
An Associated Press correspondent says that while Mr Churchill was in the bridgehead a shell fell within 50 yards of him.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 25804, 27 March 1945, Page 5
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