The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-09-30
ALLIES MOVE TO TRAP 100000 NAzIS British Give Up Italian Bridgehead
Drive Big Wedge Into German Lines
BY VIRGIL PTNKLEY United Press War CoFrespondentD

United Press War Correspondent
 Supreme Headquarters, AEF, September 30. = (Up) - The British End Army drove an arnored wedge deep into the German lines below Hertogenbosch today, ad- vancing to within four miles of that rail and road center in a bid to trap possibly 20O,- 900 Nazis pinned against the sea in northern Holland and the Channel coast.
 More than 200 miles to the south, American ground troops and warplaneS teamed up in e spectacular teiik hunt on the fringes of the Parroy Forest that wiped out at least i06 German Pai1ksrs in the past 4s hours.
 In the same general area, It, Gen. George s. Patton'e Third Army troopers rounded up and destroyed an entire battalion of Germans - pos sibly 1000 men--who ififll- trated the American lines.
 American ist Army skirmlshers and artillery harassed the oerfnAiw all along their front from the Eell- teFbosch forest down to soutneFll Luxembourg without important change in the opposing lines, while seventh Army forces on the south" ern flank hammered out small gains in the mouth of the Belfoft gAp against furious German oppositlon'
 On tho Channel coast, the battle Of Calais was suspended for v hours to permit the evacuation of 10000 French civilians who had been living under fire inside the be. sleged port. Canadian troops just west of Calais captured oape orlb Neg and It's small garrison end bllr enced the giant coastal battefiea with which the NazlB had been b0ni. barding Dover since iD40.
 Holland Fight
 The fighting in Holland, mean while, settled down into on uiispcsss tacuiar slugging match for possesh sion Of HeFtogonbosch, which cons tFols one of the main lines of supply -and escape-still open to the oer- mans west of the British salient, z
 The situation of the huge German force pinned against the coast apa peared to be deteriorating hourly aE the British pressed in on Hert0gens bosch from the south and sent or. mored patrols gtabblng through tHs Waai-Meuse corridor from Nijmes gen in an attempt to enveiop the railway center from the north.
 A front dispatch from United Press War Correspondent Ronald Clark said the patrols were near the point where the parallel Mouse and Waal streams almost converge, about 20 miles west of Nitme9en and barely 10 miles northeast ci Hertogenbosch.
 Simultaneously. . combined Cam adian and British fighting tenn moved Up into the German fiank southwest of Hertogenbosch, driv.nf beyond the Antwerp-1trnhout canal on Q six mile front and mak- ing steady progress.
 The trap was not yet clossd around the enemy but it's jaws were tightening slowly and strengthens ing by the hour as fresh BritIsh troops and armor Streamed up Into the salient jtitting more than 70 miles into Holland from base along the Belgian border.
 Clark reported that all the rail- way lines running through the 2b- mile wide gap between Arnhem ard the zuyder Zee had beer e.. by Al- lied bombers, adding enormously to the German supply problem and poising the threat Of disaster # they should attempt to cut and run.
 Naxis Fight
 Everywhere on the British-Can- adian front. however, the Nnyls were fighting hard and skilfully demonstrating their ability to ma'se a unified battle force out of e rar- tag collection of service trooss, trainees and remnants of knccked- out elite guard divisions.
 The heaviest fighting centered ca a seven-mile line south-southeast 'if Hertogenbosch where the Britisn beat off repeated German counler- attacks and hammered out mile gain in 24 hours tlfat put tli7.
 
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