Evening star., 1944-09-25
Second Crossinu
Into Germany by
British Indicated
MAP on Page A-5.)
BY the Associated Press.

LONDON. Sept. 25.-American
parachutlsts today invaded
Germany at new point-in
the Reichswald Forest sector
southeast of sNijmegen-while
British Army forces broke the
ring around parachutists north
of the upper branch of the
Rhine at Arnhem and began
consolidating their bridgehead
for a main push into the
Northern Reich.
The Yanks-attached to the
British I'd Army-broke across the
German frontier near Beck. Dutch
border village miles from Nijmegen.
and were driving toward kleve
northern anchor of the Siegfried
Line. 8 miles to the southeast. The
Reichswald area is some so miles
northwest of Essen, site of the great
Nrupp works.
AN unconfirmed London broad
cast said British troops, pre-
sumably Of the I'd Army were
only 81 miles from Essen. indicat-
ing still another invasion of the
Reich)
Poles Slip Across Rhine.
Gen. Elsenhower's communique
announced that Polish reinforce
ments from the British I'd Army had
slipped across the Rhine at Arnhem
by night and bolstered the hard
pressed but stout hearted British
air-borne division which had fought
alone for week In the middle of
counterattacking Germans.
Fresh Allied parachutists have
been landed south of 'S-Hertogen-
bosch, 25 miles southwest of
Nijmegen and 10 miles northeast
of Tilburg, the German radio re-
ported today. The broadcast. re-
corded by The Associated Press.
said the parachutists had been
encircled.
Berlin added that British air.
borne troops at Anthem were
lighting between that city and
Wagenlngen, 10 miles TO the
WeStD
On down the line. 1t Gen Court
ney H. Hodges American lst Army
ripped German counterattack to
pieces in the area east of Aacheff
and turned huge 240-mm. tnearly
10 inch) guns on targets only l8
miles from the Rhine.
1t. Gen. George S. Pattons Sd
Army slashed close to Baccarat. %
miles southeast of Nancy and only
about As miles southwest of Stras-
bourg on the Rhine The Germans
announced the loss of Epinal on
the Moselle, 40 miles below Nancy
and about the same distance above
he Belfort Gap. Americans al
"eady were fighting we'll east of
Iplnal.
Desperate Nazi Stand.
In these two sectors the Germans
Nere making desperate stand and
Allied gains were being measured
n hard-WOn Yards The Nazi Army
was throwing i'll counterattack after
counter attack. which left the bat
tlefields streWn with reckless losses
of tanks and troops. Behind it a
German civilian army with Shovels
was digging frantically to create new
lines of trenches
The Americans fighting in the
RelchSwald Forest affording con-
cealment were parachutists attached
10 the British I'd Army. There was
possibility that two crossings of
the German border actually had
taken place here-at Beck and at a
point farther south. with British
participating In one of them.
The crossing of the quarter mile
wide Rhine branch at Arnhem was
in the face of storm of German
shellflre which had compressed the
red-bereted parachutists at one time
into a mlle-square area just west of
Arnhem.
From their main position it did
not seem likely that they had sue
ceeded in holding either the road or
rail bridge over the river for Gen
Dempseys forces,
Bitter Week Long Fight.
Gen, Dempsey had waged a bitter
Week-long fight to force his way SO
miles north to accomplish the link
up. His troops traversed a German
shooting gallery - along raised
roads, ACROSS marshy land where
every tank and truck was an ele-
waited target for German 88-mm
guns concealed on either side of the
narrow corridor
The force which finally showed
9cross to tie north bank in collapse
Die assault boats and improvised
"afts was small and the parachut-
lSts were still not out of the woods
But their position was much
brighter.
Already Gen. Dempseys patrols
had succeeded in ferrying over medi-
cal supplies, food and ammunition.
raising the morale and fighting
power of the lost division for its
eighth day of battle.
The I'd Army also was rushing up
ducks-seagoing trucks ideal for
operations in flooded war zones
but it was not known whether any
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