The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-12-14
War On Many Fronts

they fought through the inner belt of Qualifications in the suburbs east of the Danube, meeting in- creased resistance which resulted in heavy casualties on both sides.
 On the Italian front, conn., munique said Eigth Army troops considerably enlarged their bridge head over the Lamone river north east of Faenza, while the Fifth Army southwest of Imola fought into two more villages.
 Street fighting in Athens died down during the night under an undeclared truce pending results of compromise talks between the left ists and the Papandreou govern ment.
 In the war against Japan, con- siderable force of B-29 Superfort- resses bombed military targets in Thailand and Rangoon in Burma and the Toky radio reported an- other B-29 over the capital.
 The American First Army in its drive into Germany on the Roer river front was joined by the Ninth in clearing the Germans from the last two fortified towns on the west bank of the river above Duren, es- tablishing a solid American-held stretch of almost Is miles. The Ninth army took Vichhoven, seven milse northwest of Duren, and the first won Schophoven, a mile to the southeast of Vichhoven, after two days of street fighting
 The First Army's frontal approach to Duren was made in 3,000-yard advance through the western suburb of Gurzenich to the edge of the fort ress city lying on either bank oi the Eoer.
 At the southern end of the 25-mile offensive front facing the Cologne plain, First Army troops drove al- most completely through the Mon- schau forest to the bend of the Roer and captured Kesternich, 15 miles southwest of Duren.
 Farther South, the Third army made only moderate progress in its drive into the s: Basin on 30- mile front. Three new crossings of the Blies river east of Sarregue- mines were reported and fou Ger man counte- attacks were repulsed.
 The Seventh army clearing the enemy from the eastern tip of France penetrated to within two miles of the palatinate border and three miles of the Siegfried line west of Karlsruhe.
 In the Pacific war, the Superfort- resS attack on Thailand from bases in India came less than "A hours after the bombing of the aircraft center of Nagoya in Japan by the largest force of B-29's yet set out from the Saipan base in the Mari anas. Returned crewmen said fires were set at Nagoya which were vis- ible for 100 miles.
 Reconnaissance photographs show ed at least 40 direct hits on the Nit subishi aircraft works at Nagoya, causing fires and explosions which heavily damaged precision machin- cry vital to production.
 On Leyte
 On Leyte island in the Philippines the American 32nd and 77th Divi- sions drove from the north and south in a squeeze movment against the Japanese remaining in the Or moe Corridor, now estimated to number about 10000. American shore batteries sank three troop laden Japanese ships which ventur- ed into Ormoc harbor on Tuesday night. American bomberS again ranged widely over the Philippines, hitting enemy shipping and shore targets.
 On the Chinese mainland, Chung king announced that Chinese troops had driven the retreating Japanese another g miles southward into Kwangsi Province. An American Army spokesman said there is a strong possibility that the former U. s. air base at Liuchow may be recaptured.
 Mexico City has started a cam a.--- A