The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-08-30
The Wor On Many Fronts
By LOUIS F. KEEME.E United Press War Editor

American mODlle tOfCes EoAfSG northward of the Aisne river today to E.aon, 36h miles from the Belgian border. and across the upper Merne beypnd Chalons to within 90 miles of Germany.
 Along the Seine northwest Of Paris the Allies joined their bridge heads across hte river on a 50-mile front and began a drive towards the robot bomb coast of the Englis!s Channel.
 The Allies in southern France had remnants Of the German i9ah Army hemmed in between the Raone and Drome rivers north Of captured Monteiimar and were en- gagged in a fierce battle of annihila- tion.
 The Russians were marching through Romania at high speed again disorganized German resist anee and were at the edges of the Ploesti oil fields and within 50 miles of Bucharest.
 The American drive in France through the First World War bst- fleflelds towards Belgium. Luxem- bourg and the German border was meeting only nominal resistance and advancing at the rate of about a raile an hour.
 After capturing Belleau Wood. Chateau-Thierry, Soissons and otll- CT historic places, the list American Army under It. Gen. Courtney l.. Hodges drove across the Aisne to Lapn. f0ur-way railway junction l0 miles northeast of SOissons.
 neiTns. the cathedral city and rail center southeast of Soissons, was aianked on the west by the drive across the Vesle and Aisne. and on the south by the capture Of Eper- nag.
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 Southeast along the Marne from Epernay, L. Gen. George s. Pat- toms 2rd Army took Chalons and EitFy and advanced across the river to take Lepine and Marson to get within about 90 miles Of the Ger man border.
 On the front towards the Eng fish Channel. Allied forces cleared a wide area around Paris as far as Pontolse, l8 miles to the northwest. Ali four Allied rbidgeheads north of the Seine below Paris were joined and only two small loops south Of the river remained to be eeaTed of fAe enemy.
 q German eommunique said the Nazis had evacuated the river port and communications center of Rouen.
 within Paris, French patriot forc- es were engaged in clearing the last of the eollaborationlst snipers from the roof tops while Gen. Charles De Gaulle made plans for a general election as soon as pOs- sible to Jay the foundations for a legally-eonstituted fourth French republic.
 Hardest Fighting
 The hardest fighting in Southern France, where the campaign was close to the nopping up stage, was in the triangle formed by the Rh0ne and Drome rivers. into which the AmaFieans were driving the surYiyS arg Of the German 18th Army. Many had escaped to straggle noFthwaTd through France and the number Was not estimated,
 Towards the Italian border, hog- eyer, the Germans moved m Teips foEeements from Italy and recap tuFad the town Of BriaDcon, about five miles from the frontier, The strength of this first German eoun- terrRttaek was not revealed,
 AS the Germans thus moved to protect the rear of their positions ln Northern Italy, tF0p0s of the Eighth Army on the Adrlatle side of the peplsula moved up for an assault on the eastern end of the anamys Gothic line. The Allies WeTe clearing the area around Flor enee in the center Of the peninsula but the western end of the line re- maiped quiet,
 on the eastern front, the 0er- mans in R0manle were putting up their main Feslstanee on the ap' nF0aehes to Ploesti and Bucharest, Fhe area oG the lower Danube was HaiNH Gfhhgeo fhNidl9' AtkAF WAt eapknre og the Black Sea port Of cosfanta, the Russians were wltRs in 60 miles Of the BnieaFlaD bors der,
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 On the Polish sector 0f the front, Berlin reported that four Soviet d. visions had begun 8 maJoT effort 70 break through neaH haasynla, northeast of Warsaw,
 Renewed reports came pleaDghlie from Turkey that Bulgaria had aeE nepiad British AHlfFscaD peace terms end Was about to elgn an aFIDisiiee, Tie Germans frightened thelT grip 0n Hungary, however, by busting fhe government and setting up g mi|iiaFg distat0Fsf ip,
 The Allied air offensive over EnFs npe was renewed today as hundreds nf American heavy bombeTs with fiahieF escort pounded the flying hoFnb sites ln the Pas De Calais