Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-09-24
Situation Serious
Despite Slim Link
With Trapped Men
MAP on Page A-2.J
By the Associated Press.

SUPREME ALLIED HEAD
QUARTERS, Sept .23.-British I'd
Army patrols tonight forged q
tenuous link with units of the
'lost division" of airborne troops
in the Anthem sector in Hol-
land and thousands of British
and American glider troops, with
large amounts of supplies, were
flown in despite strong opposi-
ton to reinforce 1t. Gen. Miles
c. Dempsey's hard = smuggling
rescue troops.
A late front dispatch said the
situation in the Anthem sector re-
NAMED serious, even as the End
Army, after a bloody Smile relief
march, hurled shells across the
river into enemy lines ringing the
valiant sky troops just a quarter
of a mile away from the hard-won
British position on the north bank
of the Rhine.
The British advance was punched
out through enemy strength, and
extremely heavy fighting continued
in the whole sector tonight.
Rain Hampers Sd Army.
To the south, United States Sd
Army churned forward through a
sea of mud in a Smile push, cap
turing Buriville, 6 miles north of
Baccarat and about 80 miles east
Of Nancy. The remainder of the
3rd Army front was stalled by rain
and strong Nazi resistance.
British tanks and infantry and
the American sky-troops who fought
through stand-and-die resistance
apparently sent their patrols across
the river at the Anthem bridge. A
linkup in force would signalize a
great Allied victory on the Ruhr
Valley route to Berlin.
The Germans, who throughout
the day battered with tanks and
88-MM. guns at Gen. Dempsey's
Eindhoven-Nijmegen corridor, sent
planes in groups of 20 and 80 to
battle the troop-laden gliders and
transports reinforcing the End Army.
The Nazi airmen were driven back
by hundreds Of flghters-the largest
escort yet sent with air-borne rein
forcements. At least AZ German
planes were destroyed. The glider
towing transports braved binding
flax.
Fighting on 1O0-Mile Front
The British widened the corridor
through which they rushed to the
lower Rhine, taking the town of
Beck, three miles southeast of
Niimegen at the corridors upper
end and two other small towns two
or three miles east of Eindhoven
and about an equal distance west
at the base.
Heavy fighting ragged in almost a
1O0-mile stretch from the Dutch
frontier south to the Moselle front
as the Germans threw in one tank
led counterattack after another.
Each successive attack was thrown
back.
In one of these counterthrusts
about seven miles southeast of
Aachen the enemy suffered the loss
OF 40 per cent of his forces before
he was beaten off. In the Metz area,
to the south, American troops beat
of small forces of Germans who
drove into the 3rd Armys lines in
the Pournoy area.
On the Channel coast, Cape Girls
Nez, Nazi holdout point midway be-
tween Calais and Boulogne, was
reported captured.
In the Eindhoven-Nijmegen Sec
tor the long, thin supply line of the
British End Army once more was
intact. Thirty miles south of this
critical front British units routed
SIS elite Guard troops and 200
tanks which had slashed across the
highway at the Dutch village of
Veghel.
Supreme headquarters, which had
described the Anthem positions as
critical only Friday, breathed more
easily and from the commander of
the British division in Anthem
came word that after six days of iso-
lation morale is high-we will hold
out"
Rocket-flring Typhoons in great
(See WESTERN FRONT, A-4.)