Evening star., 1944-10-05
MAP on Page A-3.)
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
LONDON, Oct. 5.-Armor and
infantry of the American 1st
Army today plunged into a
widening hole in the Siegfried
Line near Ubach and masses of
artillery, including 10-inch guns
tore many Germans from their
defenses.
The Germans battled fiercely
rushing up reinforcements and
bringing to bear every possible gun
in an effort to prevent the crum-
bling of the entire Siegfried Line
north of Aachen. Already the orig
inal West Wall had been pierced
and the Americans were attacking
with fresh energy the tank traps,
earthworks and pillboxes hastily
erected behind it.
To the north, heavy fighting
flared along the British Nijmegen-
Arnhem corridor. Infantry at
tackled in several sectors, gaining a
mile in an eastward advance and
several miles in a northwesterly
direction.
To the south, the American Sd
Army was engaged in grim fight
atop Fort Driant, a key stronghold
southwest of Metz. Germans had
holed up in the concrete Businesses
of an underground labyrinth.
Mounting Pressure Reported.
An Associated Press correspondent
on the Ubach front reported:
Tanks, guns, infantry and sup
plies are pouring through the gap
in the Siegfried Line to put mount
ing pressure on the enemy"
Three thunderous serenades from
every American gun in the area
from 75s to 240-mm. siege pieces
tore German defenses to pieces in
preparation for new attack just
south of Ubach, the dispatch said
and so many dead Germans were
found that the bodies formed an
obstacle to the infantry when II
went forward.
The center of enemy resistance
was a hill just east of Herbach and
south of captured Ubach.
The Germans, whose broadcasts
admitted the wedge had beer
widened, turned a record number
of guns onto the corridor and rushed
up men from pillboxes to the north
and south in an effort to shore
sagging defenses.
Attack Opened Below Arnhem.
The main attack of the British in
Holland was launched on a 6-mile
front from an area only about 2
miles below the famous Arnhenl
Bridge for which the British 1st
Air-Borne Division had battled in
vain.
1t was aimed in the direction OF
Pannerdensch, 8 miles southeast oi
Arnhem and the same distance
northeast of Nijmegen. Panner-
densch is only about miles from
the German border north of Kleve
and is at the fork of the Waal ano
Neder Ryn Rivers. The stiff opposi-
ton limited the advance to about q
mile.
Farther south, Allied armor at
tacking from the eastern side of the
Nijmegen corridor near Venray ad-
vanced several miles from Meijel,
established a front along the Nooren
Canal north of Venlo, and fought
forward slowly across marshy land
from Overflow.
Almost directly east of Nijmegen
Allied infantry and artillery broke
up a German concentration in the
Reichswald, south of Kleve, where
the enemy was preparing another
counterattack.
First Armored Blow.
Earlier reports told of the Ameri-
can 1st Army checking a German
tank counterattack, the first of the
enemy's defensive blows to be led
with armor. The assault blunted
itself against the American lines
near Herbach, mile and a hall
south of Ubach, which is at the
center of the 2-mile-deep wedge into
Germany.
Drizzling rain and cold marked
the fighting at Ubach.
One of the strangest battles of the
war developed amid gunfire ano
the smoke of fire grenades ano
burning crude oil at Fort Driant on
the Sd Army front.
The Yanks held the surface and
the Nazi garrison fought with des-
peratlon in the maze OF under
ground defenses.
Associated Press Correspondent
Edward D. Ball reported in dis