The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-11-21
Report Says Allies
 Have Taken Colrnar
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(Continued guns of the Siegfried line, while others battled across the Rhineland to within 25 1-2 miles of Cologne and 29 miles of Dusseldorf.
 The German DNB agency, in a dispatch fraught with warning of impending doom, said the great bat tie array of six allied armies con- firmed that Gen. Dwight D. Eisen- hover was attempting to deal the Reich a "last decisive blow"
 "No doubt it will be difficult TOT the German defense to withstand this onslaught" Martin HallenSle- ben, DNB'S military expert, con- ceded. '"The Germans, however, posses the best premliminary con ditions to wear down the enemy s offensive strength in number of battles of attrition."
 Latest successes, army by army, from north to south, along the 4OO- mile offensive front included:
 British End Army - advanced to within three miles of the border fortress of Venlo in southeast Hol- land; repulsed two enemy counter attacks northeast of Geilenklrchen, 13 miles north of Aaachen. ana pushed on to within 3 1-2 miles of the Roer river.
 American 9th Army - captured Gereonsweiler in an advance to within 2 1-2 miles west of the Roer, two miles southwest of the trans port center of Linnich and 29 miles southwest of Dusseldorf in the Ruhr; also seized Aldenhoven. 25 1-2 miles west of Cologne and three miles southwest of the ruined com munications center of Julich. Eschweiler
 American 1st Army - foug h t through western and southern out skirts of Eschweiler, seven east of AAchen, and brought all roads out of city under artillery ire; pushed on through Wenau, four miles southeast of Eschweiler, to within three miles of Duren on the Roer and 25 1-2 miles of Cologne. GA BEG broadcast said Allied re- connaissance fliers had reported the Germans withdrawing both troops and equipment from Duren ana Julich, the two main BaStions pro- tectinga Cologne, transport and in dustrial capital of the Rhine-land:l American 3rd Army-cleared all of Metz except two small enemy pockets; advanced three miles into Germany's Saar Basin to within a mile of the Saar River; entered the Maginot line Notifications at Faulquemont, q miles east or Metz, and Pontpierre, two miles farther east, reached points 10 to 12 miles west of Germany's border fortress city of Saarbrucken. American 7th Army - smashed last German defense line before Saverne Gap in Vosges mountains with capture mountains with cap ture of Lorquin and fleming, both within five miles of Sarrebourg, and pressed on rapidly against cratic rear guard resistance; seized score additional towns in advance into Schirmeck, Ste. Marie and Bonhomee Passes. A German DINE dispatch said the 7th Army had broken into Sarrebourg and was fighting in the streets of the city.
 11-Mile Stretch
 French 1st Army-seized 11-mile stretch of Rhine river north of Swiss border and engaged German Siegried line batteries on opposite bank; advanced to within eight miles or less of Mulhouse; began surprise double envelopment at- tack against Le Thillot. A German DNB dispatch said French tanks had reached Mulhouse, but had been cut off by German reserves, while a Swiss dispatch said the French reportedly had occupied Colmar, g miles North of Mulhouse.
 American troops of the 9th Army, spearheaded by flame-throwing tanks, scored the biggest successes at the northern end of the front with the capture of at least five towns up to 10 miles inside the reich southeast of Geilenkirchen.
 2c addition to Gereonsweiler and Aldenhoven. the 9th Army cleared Freialdenhove, Ungerhausen and Niedermerz, all between Eschweiler and Gereonsweiler. The Germans counter-attacked sharply Monday with 20 to 30 tanks against newly liberated Schleiden, northeast of Aachen, but were thrown back and later were observed withdrawing to the southeast.
 The 9th Army was revealed to have captured 4,500 prisoners since the start of its offensive.
 The Germans also counter-at- tackled It. Gen. Courtney Hodges 1st Army in the vicinity of Heistern, 8 half mile north of Wenau and Il miles east of Aachen, in an eff fort to blunt the spearhead pointed toward Duren, but the effort was on small scale and failed to pene- trate the American line.
 Other forces cleared the town of Rohe, a stride the Aachen- Cologne Autobahn or Military road, on the northwestern outskirts of ESch- weller, and were fighting house to house in Hehlrath, mile north of ESchweiler.
 | 76S Prisoners
 Troops which entered Eschweiler from the south were encountering mines and boobytraps. The Ger mans still were manning machine guns inside Eschweiler. but Ameri- can patrols met no resistance in a | limited foray into the city last night.
 The 1St Army took 708 prisoners yesterday.
 Elements of Patton's 10th Armored Division reached point only a ] mile from the saar river inside 0eE-