The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-10-23
British Gain Two Miles
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"kHere tb lltVlo blRn tnuV Vne en- emy has sufficient forces to do more than slow our advance" Clark TO. ported. Thiekly.Sown land mines and the network of waterways lae- Ing the damp ground appeared to be doing more than the German troops to slow the British.
 Tho speedy tightening Of tht Canadian are around tho German pocket on the south bank raised hopes that the Allies soon may be able to force tho 9eheldo and exploit their capture Of Antwery, probably the most important port vet Sel2ee for tho reinforcement and supply aB armies march on Ber!in.
 ome b2 miles northeast of Ant. Werp, British army troops pushed te within five miles of the key Dutch communication center Of Hertogen- bosch on Q fiVo-mile front against Increasing enemy resistance.
 The American iSt army, 'round- Ing up enemy stragglers northeast of newly-eaptured Aaehen reported the Germans had begun using ro' bot bombs in quantity in the Aaehen sector for the first time on any fighting front, presumably in on at- tempt to throw any American prep. arations for an attack across the Cologne Plain off balance.
 It. Gen, George g. Patton'S Srd army ironed out the German bulge southeast of Metz with the oceupa- tlon Of Coincourt and BeZange La Petite % miles east Of Nancy and 3b miles southwest Of the German stronghold of Saarbrueken. Street fighting was raging in Moneourt, Q mile beyond coincourt and Begange La Petite.
 Patton's gains, ranging up three miles along Q SiX-lniie front, houted tho Germans from dominating heights where they had been haras. sing the Americans with barFages from Cs-mlllimeter gun batteries,
 On Patton'S southern flank, the American 77th army captured four more villages in four and Q half. mile advance northeast from the road center of Brukeres. The fall of Breuvelieures, four miles northeast Of 1ruyeres, put the Americans well along the road leading to the St. Marie Pass through the Vosges mountains.
 Breskens Falls
 Breskens, on the south bank of the Schelde opposite Flushing, and Fort Frederick, e half mile to the northwest, fell to the Canadians yesterday virtual without a fight after the Germans had resisted stubbornly every yard Of the way up to the city itself.
 Draaibrug, nine miles southeast of Breskens, also was captured after little more than skirmish with rear guards despite the fact that Ger man resistance Il pto that point had been heavy. Exploiting their suc- cess, Canadian Vanguards raced on to the west and at last reports were at the village of Sluis, two miles away and only four miles from the sea.
 United Press War Correspondent Walter Cronkite reported from 2lst army group headquarters that only one heavy shoe battery remained on Waicheren Island on the north sbore of the Schelde estuary still capable of annoying shipping in the river. Al lothers were believed to hay eben knocked out by British counter-fire from the south bank. By Allied bombers, or by flood wa- ters released by the bomb-breach- ing of the Walcheren sea wall.
 New Crossing
 Canadian forces also made a new crossing of the Dutch frontier and advanced another 2,000 yards toward the road center of Roosen- dall after capturing Belgian bor- der town of Esschen, l6 miles north of Antwderp.
 British End Army troops widen- ing their corridor into Holland gained 1000 yards more along g five-mile front to within five miles of Hertogenbosch, one of the most important road functions south of the Mass (Meuse) River.
 4Hc dbthCkb lduklC4hCQ JCobCAQdy along the Oss- Hertogenbosch road from the northeast and the Zuid- willemsvaart Canal from the south- east, caught the Germans by sur prise and the British sloshed rapid ly across flooded Marshlands in heavy mists.
 At the tip of the British salient in Holland, End Army forces occu. pied Doodewaard, on the north bank of the Rhine 10 miles north- west cf Nijmegen, and Opheusden, two miles farther north, after the Germans withdrew without explan- ation.
 Robot Bombs
 At least a dozen robot bombs of the same type that the Germans used to lombard London were loosed against the American list Army in the Aachen sector yester- day, nited Press War Correspon- dent Henry T. Qorrel' reported from the front. No details of the results could be revealed for secur- ity reasons.
 It was believed the Germans had e large number Of robot bombs on hand at the time they lost their