| Show Yankees Fight to House-to-House i With Germans Inside Metz Allies Drive brive Ahead i On Entire Front ij Americans Invade Reich at af New Point Launch Wide 15 March on By William Frye LONDON Noy Nov 18 UP British Jp-British British Second army troops have struck the enemy flank in Germany 13 miles above the American sector at Aachen a front dispatch disclosed night while to the south doughboys of the U. U S. S Third army fought house to house inside formidable fortress Metz The British 2nd and the American Ameri Amen can and 1st armies forming a solid assault arc are hammered out slow gains Saturday against fanatical fanatical fa Ia- resistance on the broadenIng broadening broadening broaden broaden- ing and lengthening Aachen sec sec- tor Disclosure that troops under the British command were fighting in Germany was only one highlight in a series of sensational advances along a mile mlle western front turned into flaming battle by six allied armies of men Besides battling into Metz Meu- Meu never taken by frontal assault in modern history the history the 3rd army in invaded invaded invaded in- in Germany at a new point near Luxembourg and opened a a. mile 15 broad attack toward the reich's northern The French at the lower end of the front punched to within sight of f Belf Belfort rt and the strategic gap to southwestern Germany North of the French sector the U U. S. S army advanced from tw two to three miles toward Strasbourg along long longa a mile 30 front British 2nd army troops 1 Jin In southeastern Hollan Holland scored d Two major crossings of l the Zig cnn canal J. J last water barrier before the Mans Maas Meuse river bend and the Venlo gateway to Germany The British att attach Cl in Germany synchronized with the American offensive virtually isolated Geilenkirchen Geilen- Geilen kirchen 13 miles north of ot Aachen by advances past the town on both the north and south The British cut the road from Geilenkirchen to farther tarther north They ey also smashed forward nearly two miles in an advance south of the town toward Prummern two miles cast east of Geilenkirchen Three hundred hun dred prisoners were taken The U. U S. S army meanwhile reported slow but steady gains Saturday in the arc east of Aachen and the 1st let army also slugged forward forward forward for for- ward against strongly entrenched Germans The Germans were throwing tanks and troops into attempts reckless of ot cost to stem the American advance fighting for every Inch of ot ground The greatest greatest greatest great great- est advance by the 1st army In three days of ot fighting has been only four tour kilometers 2 23 miles a front dispatch said but there are Continued on 00 Pan Page Two Column Four Am or si oo IM a rda Sup IvR KASSEL t 1 Kr I L e COLOGNE S. S n Duren 5 55 ic s n LI c. c s ci n 7 1 ARMY KOLENZ BELGIUM Dinant se Wi k 1 MAINZ Ms 44 TRIER Worms S SEDA S. S EDA c Mann s Heidelburg 5 I Landau ARS ETZ St 4 Chalons Mousson f S 'S STUTTGART k 05 1 1 s 5 GERMANY V Colmar S FRANCE A 0 p SWITZERLAND ILIS J Associated Press Map Mop Broken circle includes sector on western front lied offensive e b by entering Metz 1 and to the here tile the American Amerlean Third arm army has made mado north sending a patrol across the German the tho most spectacular gains of the general al- al border near Perl Per Black line is the front r Yankees Fight to House-to-House Germans Inside Metz Continued from Page Pal One t Indications the Germans have be been n badly shaken by terrific artillery and air bombardment and have suffered heavy losses Berlin pictured the assault Inthe in inthe inthe the Aachen sector as lengthening The American wedge has been thrust now to within 25 miles o of the Rhine Cross Reich Ich Border Pattons Patton's rampant Third army amlY I sent mechanized cavalry patrols I over the German border near Per Perl inside the German border near the junction of the Luxembourg Luxembourg- and French frontiers and about five miles northeast of the itself Infantry crossed the Moselle bridge into Metz from the north during the night while other patrols patrols pa pa- trois from Crom the south also penetrated ed td the city where the Germans have been preparing a stiff defense defense de de- de- de in the streets and the thick stone walls of oC the houses At the same time Gen n. n Patton's Pattons Pattons Patton's Pattons Patton's Pat- Pat tons ton's new push developed a thrust 15 miles to the southeast toward the border and armor newly thrown into the offensive rolled forward four tour miles mUes to near Bouzonville Bouzon- Bouzon vi yule ville lie 20 miles northwest of oC brucken chief industrial center of the German valley Mile 23 Advance Slightly to the north other armored armored ar ar- ar- ar mored fingers stabbed near Fils Fils- in a three mile advance to a point but two miles from Crom the German German German Ger Ger- man border and only nine miles west of Saarlouis I Elements of oC another mechanized cavalry group entered I ler a mile south of the German border on th the flank lank of C the thrust into Germany The punch into the reich was the second time the Third army has entered Germany Patrols crossed from Luxembourg several weeks ago but there have been no recent reports of their activity The present thrust front line dispatches said carried over the I boundary a qua quarter of a mile and half way to Perl Pen East of Aachen the German high command said a battle of oC Utmost utmost ut most Intensity was raging on a mile 50 front with the American First and Ninth armies throwing in large forces and attacking as many as 42 times in single sec see tors torn Nazis Naris Claim Success Focal point of the tho attack the Germans said was north of ot Aach Aach- en The declared American tanks were shot up Inthe in inthe inthe the first two days of ot the battle Allied sources gave few details of ot this action but made it clear the Germans had been unable to check the drive and front reports said the doughboys had pu pushed hed to within 25 miles of the Rhine Fighter bombers supporting the ground operations on all aU sectors of ot the front fron bombed and strafed the enemy from Duren in the Aachen Aach Aach- en area to Colmar and Mulhouse In the south hitting fortified towns gun positions strong points and other defense positions as well as front fron t line troops rail transportation transportation transportation tation targets and supply dumps Maj Eugene Trahan a R aVest West Vest WestPoint WestPoint Point graduate from Lafayette La said the fighting on the Ninth army front was resulting in some of the heaviest losses to both sides since the landings and added The Germans apparently are determined to fight the main battIe battle battle bat bat- tle tIe right here That suits us It Itis Itis Itis is just as good a place to kill them themas as any other |
