Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-09-22
MAP on Page A-3.)
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
LONDON, Sept. 22.-British
Tommies, joined by American
parachutiSts, hurled shells into
the Anthem area today and
drove close to where air borne
troops were reported holding
open a bridge across the last
branch of the Rhine.
An Allied end run around the
Siegtried Line into the war works
of the Ruhr Valley was in prospect.
Air reconnaissance reports that
Anthem was afiame and that the
Germans were pulling back to the
east suggested that the way was
opening for an early linkup with the
fiercely beset island of air-borne
forces, who had held their isolated
position since Sunday.
Officially, it was announced that
the Allies had driven 2 miles north
of Nijmegen after Selling the long
bridge across the main Rhine
branch, the WAL, and were within
miles OF Arnhem.
At the southern end of the long
front, the Germans threw in fresh
armored forces against 1t. Gen.
George S. Pattons. American Sd
Army as the furious tank battle
went into its fourth day.
Yanks Not Surprised.
The attack came in almost exactly
the same sector as the German drive
two days ago when 40 Nazi tanks
were knocked out in one afternoon.
The Americans were ready for to-
days attack and were not caught by
surprise.
Dispatches from the Anthem
sector said British guns already
were shooting into German positions
from which the units of the lst AL
lied Borne Army had been at
tackled.
The reports indicated the Allies
were steadily gaining in a smuggling
advance, comparable to the battle
going on at the opposite end of the
500-mile front where the Sd Army
was fighting it out with the great
est German armored force as
sembled since Normandy.
The Germans were guessing
frantically as to the state of affairs
a. Anthem where the Allied in
vasion food threatened to burst the
last dyke of defenses before the
Reich.
One Berlin broatcast said Allied
air. borne troops had entered Arm
hem.
The German communique said the
Allied push from Nijmegen had been
halted, and that an all-out attack
had been launched with the aim of
annihilating the isolated remnants
at Anthem, identified by Berlin as
the British LIST Air Borne Division.
The Germans said yesterday the di-
vision hao largely been wiped out.
Other German Reports.
Another German broadcast said
the push from the south already had
linked up with the Anthem force.
A third said the Anthem force al
ready had been liquidated. Again it
was declared that the fierce fight
was continuing and that German
forces everywhere in Holland had
gone over to the counterattack,
Allied dispatches saying the air.
borne force still held the Anthem
Bridge was inconclusive, as they
were dated two days ago.
against this the BIC quoted
front reporter today as saying
the Germans still held the bridge,
but British troops had established
bridgehead on the north side
and had the span itself under
fire. The Germans were attempt
ing to flee north over the bridge,
said this broadcast, recorded by
CBS)
Meanwhile, the British showed
out on both sides of Eindhoven, to
their rear, and broadened to Is
miles the base of their 45-mile- deep
corridor across Holland, through
which a one-way flow of men and
armor was streaming toward the
ANCl SloooilS 1iColCSt oClll
Nijmegen Pocket Wiped Out.
Someren, 10 miles east of Find
hoven, and Wintelre, 6 miles west
ward, were reached, and the WAL
crossing was made secure by wiping
out in Nijmegen itself a pocket of
Germans which advance elements
had not bothered with.
The Germans announced the be-
ginning of attacks on st. Nazaire,
another U-boat nest in Brittany.
In the battle against Gen. Pattons
forces, the Germans had lost at least
los in the woods, plains and hills
east of Nancy alone-approXimately
half their available force in that
(See WESTERN FRONT, Pg. A-3)