COMPLETE DISASTER

Evening Post, Volume CXXXVIII, Issue 57, 5 September 1944, Page 5

COMPLETE DISASTER

NAZIS DISINTEGRATING

. LONDON, September 4. "You can quote me as saying that the whole thing is a brilliant victory for us and a complete disaster for the Nazis," said General Dempsey, commander of the British Second Army, in an interview with a "Daily Telegraph" correspondent yesterday, commenting on the position on the western sectors. "There is no opposition; it is complete disintegration. The original jplan has never gone wrong." I General Dempsey gave correspondents some details of the British Second Army's great advance from the Seine. It began last Tuesday, and by 6 a.m. on Wednesday Amiens had been captured and all the Germans between Le Havre and the Somme were trapped. Twenty-four hours later troops had liberated Arras, then Douai and

Lens, and reached the Belgian border after covering 140 miles in four and a half days. Since General Dempsey spoke trie army has added more than 50 miles to its lightning advance. British Second Army units arrived in Brussels only five hours after crossing the Belgian border, entering the capital at 2 p.m., says an Associated Press correspondent. This tank-led vanguard stormed through the feeble German defences into Belgium in the Tournai area just two hours short of five years after Britain declared war on Germany. Everywhere along the route they were greeted by crowds delirious with joy and dazed by the speed of the liberat--1 ing army's arrival. British tanks were literally smothered with freshly-pluck-ed flowers till the long column of battle-grimed armour looked as if it had been in a carnival. ARMY LEADER CAPTURED. The correspondent adds: "The news from the other sectors of the front, if there is anything that can still be called a front, in this lightning campaign, is scarcely less spectacular." He says that General Wirow, the commander of the German army on the Somme was captured yesterday.