| Show ichen 4 lies e Attack tf Falls Near to Antwerp i- i REME REME tE HEADQUARTER HEADQUARTERS Pins Paris Oct 20 UP The UP-The The Wi First Firt army completed of ot Aachen Friday g the last nazi resistance western v stem outskirts of the peat rG German r c city to tb fall fail to gre great pile of rubble rUbb e that thatis as is Charlemagne's capital capitalS S entirely in American Unit United V d Pr Press s Correspond- Correspond t lc Prankish Franl from l. l r Only a sin im small ll resistance resistance resist resist- ance outside the city remained to to mark the hopeless stand J dJ f the German garrison that 16 LO day dayS ago rejected a a surrender-or-die surrender ultimatum t m. m o Fl u l' l N Nest st Lt Gen Courtney H. H Hodges' Hodges assault forces were pounding that last nest net as he announced that the cleanup of Aachen itself was finished The The Americans had marched I U I westward through Aachen A clien zi fight fight- house ouse to house arid and street to tb street t against hard die nazis nazis' 1 Abandoned ed in the th war torn city by the German command after the last escape corridor to the thee e east st was sealed and relief attempts at at- tempts f failed Scores of prisoners marched out of the last nazi toehold in Aa Aachen hen Friday morning as as the tho German stand went through Its death throes Front dispatches said that at Aachen ancient city where emperors em em- once were crowned was virtually vil destroyed by American siege guns bombs and the weapons weapons weapons ons with which the doughboys hacked their way through its ruins Canadians ns Attack Atack C Coincident n nt with wilh the mop up mop ot of Aachen the Canadian First army to the west launched an attack on a tWO tWO- two mile front 14 miles mile northeast of Antwerp in the area of Brecht and St. St Leonard The The drive was aimed squarely at the ilie big tra transport sp rt center enter of Breda some 17 iles south south- of the the Canadian dinn forces battling there arid and al along ng the e Schelde Sch estuary to o u n Page Tw Two j Column n SI 81 Six Hies en 1 mO move HOLLAND A I m le Rhein Mind n at t both ends f 1 of o f western U We Zutphen e q front as Id ROTTERDAM MUNSTER MUNSTER- Tro ARNHEM First army g n completes completes' i osa l Beek r GERMAN Y Ys s H t M ok err i Wal Ham m O up op-up P u P of bat bat- Br da red Aachen Oloan r 3 v J over l l Ewen H o o E r I uc l Ruhr R. R I he he Canadian r viLl I Arn s b 9 First army o ou u I 2nd ARMY I IIII K 11 rr l launched an ANTWERP t attack on a Il r J Jrr rr w sr r NE PF f y yr r M L J be i mile No-mile front ARMY r t 6 northeast R der Duren r I lq R o Bonn w r r ry of Antwerp h hARMY ARMY AACHEN n q J Si I J fe o r white arr arrow w w Jr-w S J Namur t At the o ot o- o dy Ill Limburg ite rte end nd of the I r front French Giret Dinant I r ll li I lunebach w n a and Amerle American a n lay open Bastogne d MAIM Diekirch three 7 II a l passes 11 Echt j Mere e LUX leading t Line LUXEMBOURG l lII l TRIER I I throw through g h the SEDAN Wormeldange r l ud Mannheim to te the Rhine I upper PP valley white 1 1 II arrow METZ r lJ l r l l 1 1 Fr r l o lJ L' L fi h 3rd ARMY w. w I I STUTTGART Arracourt no S R St St. iTt V iv rc e NANCY T g r c R Forest of rI t Baccarat y r N r a a u r St 1 I Chat Die GERMANY r 1 x 8 J FRANC l r rr iburg R miremont 1 T R monch ff p I o 0 30 z Claire g BELFORT IUS ti Buel SWITZERLAND j Aachen Falls Falls' to Yanks After Day 10 Canadians Attack to Northeast of Continued from Page Pace One 4 pen up the sea route roule to Ant- Ant At the opposite end of the western western western west west- ern front American and French troops smashed f forward and laid open three passes leading through the to the upper Rhine valley vaHey Troops of the American Seventh army stormed through the Ute key ey transport center of dominating one of the passes and neared the entrance to another while French forces on their right plunged into a third Alms Aims to Ea Ease e Pressure Early reports on the new Canadian Canadian Canadian Cana Cana- I dian attack northeast of Antwerp Antwerp Antwerp Ant Ant- said it was going well It was described at supreme headquarters headquarters headquarters head head- quarters as as designed to ease the pressure on the fiercely contested Beveland causeway to the islands north of the Schelde estuary as aswell aswell aswell well as drain off German resistance resistance resistance resist resist- ance from the Tilburg front In connection with the Canadian Canadian Canadian Cana Cana- dian attack 40 Marauders of the Ninth air force attacked the Id- Id span rail bridge over the estuary where the Waal flows into the sea at Moerdijk jk as well as an important important important im im- im- im bridge at The weather was appalling on the British Second army front in eastern Holland and dispatches said Lt It Gen Sir Miles C. C Dempsey's Dempsey's Dempsey's Demp- Demp sey's forces w were e ere r e completely bogged down south of Venray Northwestward miles the Canadian First army slashed through the Breskens pocket flanking the Schelde estuary approaches approaches approaches ap ap- ap- ap to Antwerp making a junction near Oostburg which cut the German defenders of ot southwest southwest southwest south south- west Holland in two Made lade By Canadians The Junction was made by Canadian Canadian Canadian Cana Cana- dian forces striking northward from the Leopold canal and southward southward southward south south- ward from a bridgehead on the estuary secured in an amphibious landing in a drive to open up the way to Antwerp as a a. supply port for the allied armies French forces struck into the entrance of Bussang pass through the while U U. S. S Seventh army units to their left won control control control con con- of the Bonhomme pass to Colmar and slugged eastward t within a a. mile mUe or so of oC the entra entrance entrance en en- tra trance ce to the Schlucht pass The capture of control l point before belore the c entrance to the Bonhomme pass followed the disclosure disclosure disclosure dis dis- dis- dis closure that the dou doughboys had closed on the stronghold from three directions s and were b battering battering bat bat- t- t through the streets in bloody fighting Gains Impressive Bad weather difficult mountain I terrain and stiff resistance made it slow going for Lt Gen Jacob JacobI L. L Devers' Devers Franco-American Franco forces battling to flank Belfort and open up the way to southwest Germany but their gains were the most impressIve impressive impressive im im- reported from the western front fron t. t The A Anglo Anglo- n g I 1 0 o- o American drive against the Maas salient in eastern Holland bogged down in quagmires caused by driving rain and British British BrItIsh Brit BrIt- ish forces fell back to a line a short distance south of Veulen and Overbroek after an unsuccessful attempt to push down the road to the village of Amerika American armored col colum fast against German v. v thrusts but were unable tl vance beyond 1 e way down the railroad d iro ito from urne carne to Amerika i iA A British broad broadest broadcast r f-r r that British Second army were within a little n moro more miles of Venlo Dut Dutch h boric bord on the Maas Mans and main e atro of the German salient we west river |
