EFFORT TO ESCAPE

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

EFFORT TO ESCAPE

RESULTS IN SLAUGHTER

Eec. noon.- LONDON, September 4. Attempts by elements of the German divisions caught by the swift AlI lied advance into Belgium to fight [their way clear resulted in one of the (greatest slaughters since the invasion, says Reuters correspondent with the American First Army. Thousands of Germans are being smashed as their columns encounter the Americans north and south of the line on the escape route to Germany. More than 3000 prisoners were taken yesterday in one small but crucial area. The fields are littered with thousands of- German dead and countless German vehicles. / A German general and his staff, who drove into the American lines, were surprised that the Americans had advanced so far. The woods are filled with prisoners in hastily-erected cages. There is an unending stream of dirty, unkempt prisoners, many of whom are wounded. FIGHT DAY AND NIGHT. Day and night the battle is going on as the Germans continue their headlong flight from the Anglo-Ameri-can pursuit. Stretching into Belgium are long lines of German vehicles, bumper to bumper, slowly approaching the point at which they must surrender or be destroyed. As far as the eye can see are wrecked German cars. Scores of good cars are being driven in under a white flag.