Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-09-23

The enemy command was hurting
every bit of fanatical SIS fighting
power it had in the north into at
tempts both to break the British I'd
Army supply stream across Holland
and the hold 1t. Gen. Sir Miles c.
Dempsey's armor apart from the
sky troops in the Anthem foothold.
Germans fought and died in their
tracks by the hundreds. Even now
the road from Nijmegen 10 miles
north to Elst, below Anthem, was
not entirely free from counterat-
tack.
Desperate Resistance.
While critical and perhaps de-
cisive battles ragged over Dutch soil,
three American armies were fight
Ing heavily against Germans max
Ing a backs-to-th e-Rhine stand.
Nazi resistance was ferocious and
desperate.
American LIST Army men nonethe-
less captured the town Of Stolberg,
6 miles beyond Aachen after bit
ter house-to-hou struggle. Dough-
boys mopped up little villages near
by, but were unable to advance far
Their east toward the Rhine city of
Cologne, % miles from the most
advanced elements.
There was no news of any further
advances in the Prum or Trier
wedges, where German resistance
had stiffened appreciably. Supreme
headquarters said Americans were
forced to give up some ground east
of Diekirch, % miles northwest OF
Trier. but declared the Americans
had not been forced back across the
German border.
The American Sd Army smashed
one German counterattack 5 miles
below Metz, and one of the biggest
armored battles of the invasion
Numbered into its fifth day on the
Lorraine plain between Nancy and
Strasburg, its outcome yet untold.
18th Army Bolsters Positions.
Meanwhile, 18th Army troops
strengthened positions east OF
Epinal, midway between Nancy and
Belfort, wedged closer to the high
way town of Remiremont farther
south, and held its crossings of the
narrow upper Moselle.
Melisy, Is miles northwest of Bel
fort guarding pass to Germany
was captured.
Along the Riviera, It'll Army units
captured the resort town of Men,
ton, at the Italian border.
The air-borne pocket in the Arm.
hem area rejected German de-
mand to surrender. The last wore
from the heavily beset force there
came in radio message late last
night from its commander:
Morale is high. We will hold
out y"
Industrial Anthem, with a popu-
lation of $4,000, was itself a battle
ground, and it was not known how
much of the actual town the air.
borne soldiers held after fighting
since Sunday through flaming days
and sleepless nights. Wether ham,
pered reinforcement.
Anthem Capture Reported.
Paris radio said without confrma-
ton that Arnheim had been cap
tured by these soldiers landed from
planes and gliders. Berlin termed
Anthem smcs.s!dering ghost town
On either side of Eindhoven, As
miles to the south, the British
gained mile or so, widening the
base of their supply and reinforce
, ment wedge to the north.
The Germans asserted the battle
in Holland will determine the fate
of the whole western 'front.'"
Along the coastal flank Canadians
wiped out the last German positions
south of the Leopold Canal, boxing
Nazi remnants into a thin strip
along the Schelde Estuary between
Zeebrugge and Terneuzen.
1900 Seized at Boulogne.
The last strongholds north ano
south of the channel port of Bou-
logne fell yesterday with total bag
of 1900 prisoners. Canadians appar-
emily were getting set for knockout
blows against the last holdout chan.
mel ports of Calais and Dunkerque
Clearing weather today promised
hope of renewed aid to the British
at Anthem.
The last direct dispatch from this
Isolated division was written at
pm. yesterday moon, Eastern wal
time, Friday.
1t said the surrounded groups re-
1ected terms of surrender brought in