The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-09-28
RED DEVILS
 ARE LICKED
 INGWEAT TRY
BY VIRGIL PTNKLEx United Press War COrrespondenil

United Press War COFresponoentl
 Supreme Headquarters, AEF, September 26.-(UP)- A mad British 2nd Army lunged out for the Arnhern gate today in a blazing bid to redeem the river crossing won and lost by the Red Devils of the 1st Airborne Di- vision in their epic nine-day stand on the Rhine.
 A field dispatch from United Press War Correspondent Ronald Clark revealed that tanks and fa- fantrymen of the End Army swung back to the attack above NijnaeBen today, driving northeastwaru through the nine-nlile corridor Hep~ arating the upper and lower knine estuaries.
 FanaticAl Nazl elite guard units, whose tanks and guns finally ovef- whelmed the Red Devils little moro than two days earlier, moved m 70 meet the new British thrust ana Clark reported that fierce sightlisg was in progress this morning.
 South of the disputed corridor, other British columns moved enef~ ward toward the Mouse River ola 0 broad front, meeting bitter r1- slstanee from Nazi rear guards iekt to cover the retreat of tke nlaAu German forces falling back acroe1 their frontier into the dubious plaei- ter of the Siegfried line.
 At the same time, Berlin reporte1 that the long dormant American 3rd Army front around MetE naW fiared into furious activity anQ fighting on Q major scale was iA progress between Metz and uraves iotte, seven miles to west.
 The American bonibardment ~ the enemy lines north of MetS roa9 to "drumfire" intensity, the uet- mans said, adding that full-scale Third Army offensive in that soo~ tor also appears imminent
 Allied headuuarters offered yiEtus aliy no information on tho fighting north of Nijmegen, beyond confifm~ ing that the last Of the 1000 sufyivofs of the Arnhem paratgoop band hHa been Eithdrawn.
 The exhausted sky soldiers passea back througla the and Army NiaeA Monday night and early TuesdaFs heading for rest camps ailds pussl7 bly,, a reception ifi England sucn aH no British fighting men have Uoen accorded since Dunkerque,
 1900 ParatrOopeFs
 Another 1900 pafatroopers, too seriously wounded to make the night march through the enemy lineD, ro~ mained behind in Nazi hands. along with 4,000-odd other captives ana the 1900 airborno troops who died in the nine.day fight for the AEii- hem bridge.
 Headquarters revealed that about 600 polish paratroops and Dorgets shire infantrymen had succeeded in reaching the trapped division iAsl week and the bulk of them escapea back to tho British lines Monday
 There was no attempt to lninini~ lse the importance of the AsniaeslA crossing and Clark's dispatch iil. dicated the Allied high command was ready to try again, this time py the hard, slugging land route Al the faco of picked Nazl diVlsluna rushed into the threatened area.
 The Bfitons were striking for tho canal linking tho upper and lower Rhine estuaries, possibly plapning to by-pass Arnhefn from tho south east and strike into Germany be- tween that town and Kieve, zcrth- orn anchor Of tho Slegfried Line Is miles to the south.
 Despite the virtual aiinihilatlou eE the Red Devil Division, official spokesnien refused to write of tho operation as ai unqualified defoat. The prize ct stake was Q ftilI-scale breakthrough into rorth-WegteFn Germany that i1eadquarteFE sources said might have dealt knockout blow to the Nan regime.
 ProtFaeted stand
 The protracted stand ct Aruhgn1, they said, failed only becAuee oS W0AtklUE ttl4b p8UVUAAb9o tAlU @@Nt=zz lious supply of their airborno dls visions by plane and because the Germans reacted faster than had been anticipated and were able 70 move overwhelming force into the breach.
 There was no further Information on the pFogrosa Of tho drive north of Nijmegefi. nor on the And Army spearheadB thF,isting toward the Mouse river Tho British aiready held 6 fiye-Eiile stretch Of tlie west bank of the Mouse below BoxlneuE. while Belgian units Of the 2nd hknl1 farther south were established a the river line en both e|des g Maeseyck.