The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-10-20

th0 Dig transport center of Breda, some iT miles ahead of tho Cana dian forces battling there and along the 9cllei Q estuary Co open up tho sec route to Antwerp.
 Supreme Headquarters, AlGT, Paris, oct. 20-(UP)-Doth ends of QorS mAnys western front sWayed back today under Allied blows which laid open threo passes leading through tho Vosgos Co the upper Rhine .val- Icy and split Q NasI pocket blocking thC seq lanes to Antwerp,
 DFuyeFes Captured ., q. .,
 American seventh Army troops captured by storm the strategic transport center of Bruyeres il nertheastarn Franco and tho French first army battled forward through tho snowscapped VoSges Into c pass down to Muihous0.
 Northwestward si5 miles, the Can' adian First Army Slashed through the BFeskenB pocket flanking tho gchcldO estuary approaches to Ailt- werp, scoring . junction near oost- burg which cut the German defena- ers Of southwest Holland in two.
 The llnkup was made by Canadian otFeOs striking flerthward from the Leopold Canal and southWard from Q hFidgehead on tho estuary, Seeurey in on amphiblous landing, itl c drive to open up tho way to Antwerp as c supply port for the Allied armies
 French forces struck into the on- trance of Dussang Pass through the Voages while U. 6. Seventh Army units to their loft won control Of tho Donhomnle Pass to Colmar and Hiugged eastward within c milo or so of the entrance to the echlueht Pass.
 UnofslcIal reports Of the capture of Bruyeres, control point before tho entrance to the DenhenlFle Pass, followed the disclosure that the Doughboys had closed on the strong" hold from three directions and were battering through the streets in bloody fighting.
 Bad weather, difiieuit mountain terrain and stiff resistance made its slow going for It, Gen, Jacob L. DoVers' Franco American forces bat ting to flank BelfoFt and open Up the way to southwest Germany, but their gains were the most impress siVo reported from the western front,
 The Angios American drive against tho Maas salient in Eastern Holland begged down in quagFnires caused by driving rain, and British forces fell back to c line c short distance south of Veulen and oveFbroek after an unsuccessful attempt to push down the road to the village Of AfneFika,
 American armored columns held fast against German counter. thrusts, but were unable to advance beyond dFiendtsVeen, halfway down tho railroad from Deurne to AmeFs ika.
 "A British broadcast reported that British Second Army troops were within 6 little more than six miles Of Veno, Dutch border town on the Maas and main stronghold Of tho German salient west Of the riVer3
 On the western flank Of tho front, Lt. Gen. 1T. D. c, CFerar's Canadian First Army slaBhed steadily deeper Into the Dreskens pocket south Of the 9ehelde estuary. Forces which had driven across the Leopold canal and those which landed on the es. tuAFy made 6 junction south of 0ostburg.
 (Radio France said tho canadl. ans had captured Breskens)
 The Canadians scored their first substantial advances from the Lees pold bFidgehead in two weeks, caps turing MiddlebuFg and Aardenburg, The junction Of tho two forces split the German garrison Of the pocket in southwestern Holland.
 "oood progress was made south Of Broskens, and our troops now are within two miles Of Behoondike and 0ostburg,' Q supreme headquarters communicate said.
 Dispatches from the U, 6. First Army front said the house to house mopup of Aaehen continued. Five of 10 German planes which tried to drop supplies to the Aachen gar- rison by parachute were shot down