The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-10-10

snaln part oe AAehen from the sub. uFh os EOrat, within the city limits and now completely in American , hahdI, formed the front Inc today
 FiFat Army assault forces beat on Raneated German eounter-attaeks northeast of Aaehen and sprung tho trap by linking the northern and southern arms of the pineers now elamped on the city and closing the last NARl escape corridor of Q little more than Q mile,
 .arhe German garrison of 1900 in- side the city now is ringcd by Amer: lean artillery with infantry poised for the final cleanup" United Press War Correspondent Jack FrAnkiSh reported in 6 dispatch filed from the FoFst suburb at Il o. m,
 The NaEi high command claimed Chat the situation at Aaehen had been stabilized by German counter. attacks, but acknowledged Q pene- eratlon of the city by reporting that the "southern border Of the town AaB been fought free again"
 Ffankish entered tho Forst sub. uFb after ., 8, tanks and infantry had cleaned it out, and found It's alNgo-torn wreekage still atiame,
 The front line along the railroad was comparatively quiet this norm ing but the scene was one of whole. sale destruction, FFanklSh reported, The Germans were dug In only Q few hundred feet away, but they were firing only when they spotted American units In action,
 House To House
 Doughboys fought house Co house battle in the cleanup Of Ferst The tankmen would fire on armer- piercing shell Into Q pocket of re- sistanee, then follow up with high explosive shells through the orig inal hole, Phosphorus shells also were used to smoke out the dc. lenders,
 A pre.dawn attack at ( q, m, won strategic heights two miles north of AAehen while other forces were battling into the southeastern euts skirts Of the city,
 n the Netherlands, Canadian troops drove inland as much as two miles from twin beaehheads seized on the south bank of the Sehelde estuary southeast of Flushing yes- terday In leap.fFog landings behind the enemy lines,
 A dispatch sent at noon from 2ist Army Group Headquarters said the initial phases Of the landings were completely successful" They were designed Co relieve extreme German pressure against the Gan. adlan bfidgehead across the Leo. pold canal farther west and speed the clearing of the sehelde estu. arr to permit the use of the big port of Antwerp.
 DNpreme headquarters revealed that the Canadian ist Army had captured 73,3e2 prisoners from D- Day up to Oct, and the British And Army, 70,6ei, boosting the to- tal number Of prisoners taken by all Allied armies in France to well over 0O0O0o.
 Warning
 The mystery fadio Atlantic said Marshal 0eFd von Rundstedt, whom tt Identified AS commander in chief in the west despite his previous re- nloval from the post, had issued an eFder Of tho day to his troops con- gFatulating them on stopping the Allies before the gates of the great- IT German Reich" but warning;
 'srho enemy Is preparing now for stu greater attacks, 1 expect every soldier to defend the sacred soil of his fathefland until his last drop of blood."
 iIarttn Hallensleben, military critic of the official DINE agency, said the Allies already have begun their fall offensive against Ger many from the west, south and