The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-09-22

ana ApporentV SWlnknk tlelE nShN~ lest blows in the north Holland sec- tor ana on the Moselle.
 Headquarters said British And Army troops and American Nirhorne units wiped out the last German resistance in Nljmegen and struck out northward to the relief of the eInbattled sky troops holding out In Arnhem.
 Ofacial reports, admittedly tagging behind the battle action, said the relief column had advanced at least two miles beyond Nljmegen, but radio Berlin and the Allied-con- trolled radio Toulouse said the Brit ish had made contact with the Arn- hem garrison,
 Pooled dispatches filed late yeS- terday from the Arnhem sector said Britiah artillery had reached the area just south of the Rhine estuary and was shclllng German assault positions around the beleAguered sky troops.
 Radio Berlin continued to trum- pet obviously exaggerated claims of losses inflicted on the Arnheni poek- ct. After admitting the juncture, Berlin said the lst Airborne British division at Arnhem had been "conn. pletely liquldated" and then an. Aouneed that the liquidation" was Otill in progress,
 United Press War Correspondent RonAld Clark reported from the 2nd Army front that increasing numbers of British tanks, with American paratroops and British infantrymen elding their turrets, were moving across the Nijmegen bridge to join the battle to the north.
 BatteF Line
 German tanks, troops and artil- leEy battered at the narrow life line stretching up b5 miles from the Bel- gian border to Arnhem, and Clark reported that the enemy attacks were mounting ia force.
 The breakthrough at NiJmegen, however, appeared to have doomed al German hope of Stemfning the Allied push short of the Reich and front reports said a sweep into the northern plains of Germany was in prospect,
 Clark revealed that many of the German divisions rushed over from western Holland to strike against the Allied corridor were raw units, while others were garrison troops or members of pan0er divisions sent into battle without tanks,
 ''The troops the enemy Is using for eounter-attackS are 30 mlseel- laneouS as to almost SurpasS belief" Clark said, "They are not running or surrendering in any numbers, but they just have not got the training and the enemy has nothing ln tho way of a good division of any kind"
 Widen Base
 A headquarters conmunique said British and American troops were steadily widening the base of their salient jutting across the Belgian. Dutch border, pushing i6 miles be yoMd Eindhoven to Someren on the east and six miles westward to Win telre.
 The LuftwafIe threw some fight CTS and Aghter-hombers into the . raging battle around Nijmegen, but 20 were shot dwon at c cost of four Allied planes,
 On the Third Army front, Patton paEt his arnored divisions lunging eastward within 25 miles of the etegfried line and ran head-on Into . great concentration of German pAnaers massed on the open plains eetweenh Chateau SalinS and Dieu1e,
 Head.on Into q great concentra. ton of German PanEerS TnsAsed on the open plains between Chateau SalinS and DieuSe,
 A front dispatch from United Press War Correspondent Robert O. Richards said the Germans with drew yesterday afternoon after talk ing . savage betting from American tanks, tank deStroyerS, artillery and planes that knocked out i30 enemy panzers in five days.
 Resume Battle
 The NaEiS resumed the battle last night, however, and i8 hours later 1t stin was in full swing, with the Americans slowly pounding eastward and enemy losses mounting hourly.
 At least 20 of the German tanks were smashed by low-flying U, s Thunderholt fighter-bombers that ripped the enemy armor with bombs and gunfire.
 North of the Chateau Salins- Dieu1e battle, 3rd Army infantry men hack out small advances in the thickly-defende area around Sillegny, six miles south of Metz, To the south, other tank and in- fantry forces cleared the Germans from Luneville and pushed out along the Meuthe river IS miles southeast of that town to the Bac- carat area. Fin, five miles north- west of Haccarat, was captured yes- terday.
 On the American lst Army front machine gun squads fought the Germans step by step through the ruins of Stolberg, Ia miles east of Aachen. Two-thirds of the town were in American hands last night but United Press War Correspondent Jack Frankish said the Nazis had converted 1t into Little Casino" and that enemy snipers were every where. Aachen itself still was under siege, although unconflrmed reports said the Germans were beginning to evacuate the city through a narrow gap in the American lines to the northeast.
 Mopping Up
 Farther to the south, the Amer jeans continued mopping up isolated enemy pockets in the Hurtgen For Goss Resigns