The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-09-12
War On Many Fronts
(NEA Telephoto)

1 Aaehen under heavy artillery fire.
 The British End Army farther to the northwest also pressed towards the Siegfried Line from Its positions across the Albert and Escaut canals in northern Holland after Q pene. tration of Holland in @ flanking movement.
 It. Gen. George s. Patton's 3rd Army along the Moselle expanded its bridgeheads across the river be- tween Metz and Nancy in heavy fighting, and opened a new drive south Of Nancy. Patton's men cap- tured intact strip of the Maginot Line northwest of Nancy and found the guns within the deep concrete Notifications in working order,
 The meeting of Patton's forces and the Franco-American 7th Army of It. Gen. Alexander M. Patch tcok place at Samberncn, IS miles west of captured Dion.
 Long Battle Line
 Counting the Canadian lst Army. which is still engaged in the vital task of clearing the Channel coast and Its hold-out ports to improve Allied supply lines, the battle line against Germans TOW extends from the North Sea to the Swiss Alps over more than 400 miles.
 The contact betewen the 7th and 3rd Armies at Sombernon was pre- liminary to junction which would establish solid front by the two armies west of the VosgeS.
 The French and Americans of the 7th Army were closing a big pincers around the German escape route through the Belfort gap. The French, moving along the Swiss frontier, were Is miles from Belfort at Point-de- -Roide. The Americans drove 27 miles north of Besancon to Vesoul, g miles due west of Belfort. forming a 3l-mile arc from Vesoul to Pont-De- Roide.
 AS the ground armies pressed in on the Reich. the British and Amer ican air forces pounded the enemys front and rear lines necessarily. British bombers during the night hit Berlin, the industrial center of DarmStadt and three synthetic oil plants in the Ruhur.
 Fighter Opposition
 The British encountered night fighter opposition and lost Is planes. while shooting down seven or more enemy fighters. The Luftwaffc now putting up desperate opposition, lost l75 planes to American fighters and bombers in yesterdays great battle, while the American toll was 4S bombers and 29 fighters.
 On the Italian front the Germans were forced back into their fortified Gothic line at points all along the front across the Italian Peninsula In the center northeast of Florence American and British troops pene- trated two to three miles to high ground north of the upper Sieve riv- CT. Heavy fighting continued outside Rimini in the Adriatic sector.
 Eastern Front
 On the eastern front, the 2nc White Russian army opened full scale attack on the key position oi Lornzha, 2l miles from the southern border of East Prussia, and drew an assault arc of 20 miles around the city.
 The Srd White Russian army ir Lthuania were massed along the eastern border of the Province and penetrated it in a reconnaissance pa. trol before dawn Monday.
 There was no official word from Moscow on the fighting around War saw or east of Krakow in southern Poland. Furious fighting continued in central Romania, where German and Hungarian troops fell back be. fore converging Russian drives aimed at the Trtansylvanian planes leading into Hungary.
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