MAIN GERMAN DEFENCE LINE OF RIVER RHINE BROKEN
General Eisenhower has announced that the main German defence line has been broken by the Allied crossings of the Rhine, but the public must not expect that there will be no further check on the road to Berlin.
The weight of the German resistance is in the North, directed against Fd. Marshal Montgomery’s army which is nearest to the vital Ruhr area.
Details of the situation show that there are now seven crossings of the Rhine and each division has gained at least from two to five miles. To date in the whole operation 250,000 German prisoners have been taken.
The King has congratulated Gen. Eisenhower, Fd. Marshal Montgomery and every man in the Allied forces who took part in the Rhine crossings.
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Highlander, Volume 1, Issue 5, 29 March 1945, Page 1
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