Evening star., 1944-10-27
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BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
LONDON, Oct. 27.-Field Mar
shall Gen. Walter Won Models
Germans leaped into a counter
attack along a 10-mile front
against the eastern side of the
British salient in Holland today
after a heavy artillery barrage
The attack, which was spread from
the Dutch town of Venlo on the
German border south to Roermond
in a sector last reported held by
American armor, ran into a wall of
fire and steel, front-line dispatches
said.
Won MVdel was striking desperate
ly to relieve his forces caught in a
series of tightening pincers in West
Holland.
Canadian forces fighting on both
sides of the Schelde In westward
advances to open Antwerp. were re-
inforced by British troops who land
ed on South Beveland Island north
of the estuary and established T.
square mile beachhead.
Several Towns Captured.
: Berlin accounts said this bridge
head was several kilometers deep
and was in the neighborhood of
Hoedekenskerke. 5,a miles ahead of
Canadian spearheads driving into
the island from the east.
A second attempt to land several
thousand troops in American
amphibian tanks and landing craft
at Hansweert. to the east of this
bridgehead and across the South
Beveland Canal, just ahead of the
Canadian spearhead was broken up
this morning, the Germans declared
Field dispatches said several towns
were captured in the beachhead by
the British, who crossed the 3 to S
mile wide Schelde at am. yester-
day, swarmed up the 20-foot dixie
and surprised thinly strung German
machine gunners. The beachhead
was strengthened throughout the
day yesterday by ferry service.
The Canadians, completing their
drive down the 2-mile wide. l0-mile
long neck of land connecting the
mainland with the island. reached
the South Beveland Canal which
cuts across the neck.
The British, after 15-mile west
ward drive in five days from their
NlJmegen salient, had hemmed the
Germans into collapsing box and
were smashing toward the Mas
(Meuse) and Hollandsch dep.
s. Hertogenbosch Captured.
The British were fighting on a
line from 3 to 16 miles south of the
Mas and the dep.
S Hertogenbosch, city of $4,000
and eastern corner of the box, was
IN British hands. Tilburg, a city
of nearly 100000 IL miles to the
southwest in the center of the line,
was almost surrounded, with the
Allies in the outskirts. The British
were fighting at Zundert, 8 miles
south OF Breda to the west, and the
Canadians were within 2 miles of
Roosendaal and about as close to
Bergen op Zoom at the western end
of the line.
The Germans had moved their
headquarters from Tilburg to north
OF the MaSs, and today's supreme
headquarters communique said the
enemy had been forced to Withdraw
AL along the line" from Roosen-
daal to Tilburg.
They had seized the towns of
Schoorstraat and Molenstraat, 4
miles north of Tilburg, and were in
a position to launch a road-cutting
bridge-smashing offensive to the
rear of the enemy.
The British had cleaned out the
road between s Hertogenbosch and
Vught, two miles to the southwest
and chased the Germans from
neighboring Fort Isabella near the
Germans largest concentration
camp in Holland.
The German counterattack was
without tank support. It was
bounded by the Venlo- -Amerika