The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-10-10
Hodges Calls On
 Nazis To Surrender
VContinuod from PaEe D


 east, though this was not borne out by Allied reports,
 "rhe autumn storm against the core of fortress Europe has started" he said, "Now it Is tc he seen whe- ther the Germans are able to op- peso the storm In inner and outer resistance"
 Tho Germans wedged slightly in, to the American line at HNrdenherg four miles north northeast Of AN, chen, in the first of their latest series of eounter.attaoks against tho American lst Army last night but failed to gain any ground in two other eounter-Nttaeks against Cru. eifiX Hill, little more thNn two miles northeast of ANehen, at 2| and c a, m, respectively,
 ! Counter Attacks
 The three counter attacks brought to eight the number of Germans have thrown In tho past 24 hours against the American lines gradually enelrellng Aaehen,
 Resunlng thelr advance in al morning driKRle, tho American Doughboys captured strategic height one mile north of Haaren and closed In on Haaren itself, only one mile from ANehen,
 United Press War Correspondent Henry T, dorrell reported from the Aaehen front at l0;S0 a. m, that the latest American advances had narrowed the German escape eor- ridor running northeast from the ruined city to two kilometers - Q little moro than Q mile,
 All main highways out of Aaehen already have been cut, and Amer lean guns poured Q steady rain Of shells on the few streets remaining | in German hands,
 dorTell sNid there wore sounds of | German tracked vehicles moving | about in the outskirts of AOehen during the night, suggesting that the enemy either was "evaeuNtlng | tho city or receiving endorsements more likely the former"
 0Oa Prisoners
 German prisoners taken in the Aaehen sector up to midnight last night tetalled 00A dorrell said, bringing the iSt Armys grand total since D-Day to l99,0i6, A total ot l4,boi others have been buried, American infantry at the tip Of the salient extending east of A0. chen cut tho Duren- -MonSehau road southwest of Hurtgen and some seven and Q half miles southwest of Duren,
 Reports from inside the south- eastern outskirts of ANehen were meAgeF, but the Americans were understood to be reducing the area house by house with flame throw. CTS, mNehlne.gunS and grenades,
 It, Gen, George s, Patton's Amer- ieNn 9rd Army continued its meth. odieal advance north ot Nancy and United Press Correspondent Robert Richards reported from the front tho Germans appeared to be With drawing along l6-mlle front tow. ard hastily-prepared positions,
 Armor and infantry of the t2th Corps stlll were battling the Ger. mans in tho streets of Letricourt, 10 miles northeast of Nancy, Richards said, but to the east had straight. ened out their line through FTesnes. en. Saulols, ib miles northeast of Nancy, to Cheminot, 10 miles north of Nancy. Some S,b55 prisoners have been taken in the past two days,
 Nancy Now Safe
 For the first time since the city was captured last month, Nancy now is considered safe from any possible German counter-attaek, Richards said.
 The Bois de la Foupasses, two miles west of Letricourt, have been cleared of the enemy and at least three more towns in the area, Sivry, LiXieres and Serrieres, have been liberated, supreme headquarters re- poted in its daily communique,
 Geman mines were delaying tho clearing of Mai2ieres, six miles north of Metz, but American units were In the southern part of the town,
 The situation in tho around Fort Driant in the southeastern suburbs of Metz remained unchanged With ths Americans clinging to their footholds inside the fortress area,
 American artillery savagely shelled Fort Marival, e mile north of Dri- ant on the west bank of the Moselle, for several hours yesterday. Though the results were not observed, the forts giant guns, which had been marrying the Americans at Fort Dri- ant, had been silent since II a. m' yesterday, Richards said
 Villages Freed
 American and French 7th Army forces freed several unidentified vil- lages in the Vosge sfoothills north of the Belfort Gap and took sev- eral hundred prisoners. East Of Epinal, the 7th Army captured La velline and Herpelmont.
 On the Netherlands front, the British 2nd Army cleared the woods around Overloon on the eastern flank of its spearhead reaching toward Arnheim, but front reports said the rest of the front appeared semi-static as though the campaign were settling down for the winter
 The final British Canadian land assault on Dunkerque, last French channel port still in German hands, still had not begun, though the be- sieged city was under furious artil- lery fire.