The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1944-10-27
Nazis Making
Desperate
Attack
lRy AssocMted Pressl

The Germans counterattacked
desperately today along a ten.mile
Dutch front, after heavy artillery
preparation. assaulting the British
salient on two sides in an attempt
to relieve their forces caught in
western Holland pincers.
A wall of fire and steel met the
assault. which Field Marshal Gen.
Walter Won Model sent tin without
tank support. The counterattack
had spread from the Venlo-Ameri-
ka railroad on the north to the
Roermondweert Railroad on the
south, and seemed directed at Mel.
jel, L. miles vest OF Venlo near
the German border.
British and Canadians have
thrust seven-square-m beach.
head on south Beveland Island in IA
combined operations assault. and
Nazi defenses all along the south.
west Holland line. appeared TO be
crumbling today.
Make Gains
The operations across the fog
bound Schelde Estuary came as
Canadians in the neck OF the Beye.
land Peninsula made gains against
some 1000 Germans pocketed in
the Estuary Islands.
British Second Army forces
fought to the east, and south out
skirts OF Tilburg, pivotal Nazi
stronghold, and other columns all
but completed the enlightenment
OF the city, outflanking ii in the
north by capture OF Udenhont.
Canadians and British penetrat.
ed deeply into Nazi defenses be.
tween Tilburg and s Hertogen-
bosch. IL miles to the north. which
field dispatch said was complete
ly in Allied hands. The advances
ieopardized German attempts to
escape northward across the Mas
(Meuse) and the WAL Rhine. The
British at Udenhout we're aimed to
ward Breda. hub OF five majo'
roads and last stronghold that
might shield a German withdrawal.
and Canadian First Army thrust
from Antwerp reached a point nine
miles from Breda.
LAST Stages
Prime Minister Churchill told
Commons that the European wal
was in its last stages, but that
fighting on all fronts would In
crease in scale and intensity.
L. S. First Army units made mi
nor gains north OF captured
Aachen.
Red Army artillery hurled back
desperate German counterattacks
against the growing Russian salient
In East Prussia. Fall OF Gumbin-
men, important communications
center 90 miles southeast OF Kon-
igsberg seemed imminent as the
Germans annopnced evacuation OF
its civilian population Uncon-
firmed reports said the Russians
were fighting in it's outskirts.
Fleeing Capital
Civilians in Konigsberg itself,
an American commentator In Mos.
COW said. already were fleeing the
capital in panic.
Soviet planes supporting the
Norwegian invasion sank a mum.
Der Of small German ships NOV.
ing down the Norway coast. and in
the south, Soviet forces which oc.
cupied the Czechosloyak road juno.
ton OF Munkacs tMukaceyo) yes
terday linked up in a solid front
with other units cutting across
northeast Hungary from conquered
pennsylvania. Two-thirds OF Hungar'
ian-annexed Ruthenia has been
OyeTrun.
In Italy British Eighth Army
troops fighting up the Pc valley
have met heavy German resistance
two miles east OF Forli on the road
70 Bologna. Pouring rain slowed
Operations all across the Italian
front.
Germans fleeing northward In
Greece are being subjected to con
slant heavy pounding from the air
British land forces have Joined
Greek guerrillas in harrassing en-
envy rearguards in the Larisa area.