Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-10-10


BY the Associated Press.
LONDON, Oct. 10.-The Amer
lean LIST Army completely sur
rounded Aachen today and de-
livered to the German garrison
there an ultimatum to surrender
within "a hours or be conquered
by ruthless attack.
Doughboys had sealed off the Sieg-
fried Line city with wall of troops,
tanks and guns, and already were
building up 25-mile front to 10
miles inside the Reich for a break
through punch toward the Rhine.
The Americans commander told
defenders holed up in Aachen that
unless the city was promptly and
completely surrendered uncondition-
ally, American Army ground and air
forces will proceed ruthlessly with
air and artillery bombardment to
~reduce it to submission"
Aachen is now completely sur
rounded" by 1st Army men, the
ultimatum said.
No Reply Two Hours Later.
Two hours after the return of the
messengers bearing the ultimatum
there had been no reply from the
Germans inside the city.
Earlier today the two jaws of a
doughboy wise had chopped the Ger
man escape lane northeast of the
city of 165, 900 to only a mile in
width, and choked it off with cur
tains of machine-gun fire. The re-
naming German garrison inside
Aachen is estimated to total 500
Meanwhile, Canadian troops to the
northwest showed forward in drives
intended to clear perhaps $1,000
Germans from the Schelde Estuary
a prime necessity to open the big
port of Antwerp to Allied supplies
TO rthe battle Of Germany.
Amphibious forces which landed
Yesterday on the south shore of the
Scheide advanced 81 miles, and the
Berlin radio said new forces had
landed today The Canadians in
the bridgehead over the Leopold
Canal struck forward after throwing
back 80 Nazi counterattacks in foNr
days.
Nancy Metz Line Strengthened.
The bottlingof Aachen's fight to |
the death" defenders came as 1t. |
Gen. George S. Patton's American
Sd Army snapped German bulge
in the Nancy-Metz sector back into
straight line.
Elimination Of this Nail pocket
was reported by Correspondent Ed
ward D. Ball, who said Gen. Pat
tons Yanks had moved up into new
positions extending from Fresnes-
en-Saulnois, Is miles north and
east of Nancy, to Cheminot, 18
miles due north of Nancy.
The LIST Army in the Aachen Sec
tor has forged 25-mile front and
was fighting on the approaches to-
Duren and Julich, highway keys to
Cologne and Dusseldorf. Ameri-
cans were 6 miles from Duren-10
miles beyond Aachen and 20 miles
from Cologne-and miles from
Julich, where an excellent highway
branches to Cologne. % miles be-
yond, and to Dusseldorf, 26 miles
away.
Main Assault Not Yet Begun.
Gen. Hodges troops had edged
into the southern outskirts of
Aachen. one-time center of Char
lemagne's government, but the main |
assault on the city had not yet
opened.
The Reich's stubborn defenders,
soaded to new fierceness by an order
of the day from Marshal Karl Gerd
Won Rundstedt. mounted one savage
counterattack after another. The
German radio admitted limited
breaches" in the Aachen sector, but |
declared they had been sealed
The weather-plagued Yanks ham
mered down the Na1 counterblows
on both the LIST and Sd Army fronts, |
and maintained momentum of their
slow-moving offensive |
German losses were heavy and the |
Nazi commander in the west braced |
his troops for an even worse bat
tering.
Expects Grand Offensive.
"You have stopped the enemy at
the gates of the Reich" Won Rund-
stedts broadcast order said. THE
enemy will, however, shortly launch
a new grand offensive. / expect
that you will all defend the sacred
German soil to the last"
After the American ultimatum was
delivered to the commander and the
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