Show S Allied Landing Reported don on Dutch Island Bridgehead Secured North of Schelde chelde Estuary N Nazis zis Hint By William Frye LONDON Oct 26 UP The pI-The The German German Ger Ger- man high command announced Thursday that allied forces striking ing to clear the the last nazi guns blocking allied convoys from Antwerp Antwerp Ant Ant- verp had landed o on the south shore of Beveland island measures Countermeasures are in progress progress progress ress the com unique s said id indicating indicating indi indi- cating eating the amphibious forces al already already already al- al ready had made good a bridgehead bridgehead bridgehead bridge bridge- head on the north side of the Ule Schelde estuary Earlier Berlin broadcasts that another island north of the estuary had been invaded by allied land a and d sea forces were not borne out by the The landing apparently was made under the protection of or a dense morning fog og which swept In Jn from the North sea and came as allied forces fighting through hip hip- de deep e p water forged slowly ahead o cleaf th the se sea approaches to Ant Ant- S Field Marshal Sir Bernard LM LM L. L M Montgomery's pincers tightened d relentlessly on Germans clinging to to the water logged deltas deltas and d islands of southwest Holland with the enemy giving giving- ground alf all the way yay from Bergen Op Zoom to's tos tos to s 's Hertogenbosch Driving in tn from the e e east st on Germans trapped rapped on W Walh Wal Wal- l- l h cheren heren the Canadians fought through thick f fog g am and traversed half the he length of ot the two mile wide mile long neck to the con connecting island of South Beveland They captured Rilland on the way The progress was along single roads raised over wastes of water l left ft by the flooding of or the Islands South of the estuary the Canadians Canadians Cana Cane were fighting in the streets of Oostburg four miles southeast of Cadzand where the enemy's last guns block the estuary from the south They also recaptured Fort Frederik Hendrik and reached the outskirts of Groede four and a half miles half miles miles' northeast of Cadzand Behind the advance into South Beveland they captured the village village vil vii lage of Dorp Op PI four miles east cast or ot the enemy coastal anchor of Bergen Op Zoom To the thc cast Montgomery's BrItish BritIsh British Brit BrIt- ish 2nd army was breaking the back of German resistance in the Br Breda Brda da box south of the Maas Meuse with Us Its attack toward the west vest from the Nijmegen sa sa- sa The British captured Ft Orten a mile north of of's s 's Hertogenbosch and cleared the Germans from all the latter Jatter hub except the southwest southwest southwest south south- west corner They were re within in a mile mlle of Tilburg Tilburg Tilburg Til- Til burg in the middle of the box having captured 12 miles miless s southwest of ats at's s 's 5 The flanking thrust by an armored armored ar ar- ar- ar mored mored- column north of s 's Hertogenbosch Hertogenbosch Hertogenbosch Her Her- cut the nazi escape route over one of the three bridges leading over over the Maas Maas- from the battle Zohe zone Southwest of of's a Hertogenbosch allied troops reached Moergestel less Jess than four miles southeast of the r rail U and highway high junction of Tilburg and the reported reported reported re re- re- re ported general progress northward northward northward north north- ward In the area east cast of the Antwerp Breda road In addition to the enemy for fortes forces es already cut of off on on an South Beveland and islands as many as German troops may be Inthe in inthe inthe the narrowing wedge of the mainland mainland mainland main main- land between the battle line and the Maas South of th the S 'S Schelde helde estuary the Canadians captured Ft Frederik- Frederik Hendrik reached the outskirts of Groede to the southwest and gained ground west and northwest of at Schoondijke south of captured Breskens The Germans still are strongly entrenched at Cadzand west of oC the fort The rest of ot the allied front from tram the North sea to the Swiss Alps was relatively quiet Americans advancing northeast of were slowed by stiffening resist resist- ance German counterattacks Inthe Inthe in inthe the mountains farther south were thrown back The westward pressure being exerted ex- ex ex exerted exerted by the British 2nd I army from its salient reaching to the Arnhem n narea area and the general northward drives of the Canadians were rapIdly rapIdly rapIdly rap- rap Idly putting the Germans In western western west west- em ern Holland in a difficult po position |