The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-10-13
Resistance Of Enemy Seen ToBe Cracking Up
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berg area four miles north of Aaehen last night but 1t was broken lip by artillery fire, even As were two previous counter.attacks yes. terday,
 German activity around the Haarn- -VeFlautenheide area on the southern lip of the American line was confined to heavy patrolling.
 dorrell said the American com. mRnd was confident of the Isl Arrny'g ability to smash the i'm. pending counter.attack,
 Best Way
 "The best way to kill Germans is for them to counter attack" one officer told him. Any further with draWal would only depaly the final Blugfest, hc said.
 Even though the NaEl command now really was barring It's teeth q good proportion of the AAchen garrison appeared already to have written of the city.
 Scores were deserting to the American lines. The German lieu. tenant who signed the receipt for the American surrender ultimatuEn last Tuesday was among the deser. ters. He was found in an air raid shelter in the outskirts waiting to Dc picked up.
 Reconnaissance pilots reported eS per cent of Aachen already had been damaged by bombs or shells, with Q fiannessplaBhed smoke pail rising 5000 feet above the rubble. More than 600 dive bomberB hit the historic city yesterday.
 Batteries Kay0ed
 All Aaehen's anti.tireraft batter. les had been knocked out, but i60 German fighters made abelated at. tempt to interfere with the bon. bardment, Though encountered by their bonbloads, American Light ningB and Thunderbolts shot down i2 Of their attackers, probably des. troyed two more and damaged six for loss of four of their own planes.
 German planes also raided the village of Brand, three and Q half miles southeast of Aachen, last night, killing eight civilians.
 The German Transocean Agency said the battle of Aachen was de- yeloping into q dramatic climax for the entire western front fight ing"
 "The Americans are even ready to neglect other sectors in order to en. force success at Aachen,' Trans ocean said.
 British 2nd Army forces, in addi- ton to launching a new attack to- wf.d Venlo, cleared out the last enemy pockets in Overloon, i6 miles to the north, and advanced several hundred yards farther east toward the Mouse.
 At the northern tip of their Dutch corridor, the British cleared l0- mile stretch of the south bank of the lower Rhine as far west as Opheusden.
 Capture Village
 The Canadians captured the vile lage of Biezen in consolidating and extending their bridgehead across the Leopold Canal, where they have killed or captured 2,400 German troops since they first crossed the water barrier. A German counter attack north of Antwerp was re- pulsed.
 It. Gen. George s. Patton's An1- erican 3rd army carried it's street battle for Meizieres-Les Metz, six miles north of Metz, into it's sixth day with the Germans still retain ing approximately third of the town.
 The situation inside Meizieres was so interlocked, United Press War Correspondent Robert Richards re- ported from the front. that Amer ican infantry men foraging fire wood stumbled upon six Germans eating their rations. They captured all six, ate their hot meal and Lad no more need for firewood. Fort Driant
 The situation at Fort Driant. southeast of Metz, remained un- changed with American infantry men clinging to the southwest = ner, both above and below the ground.
 The French 1st Army punched forward north of Le Thillot and captured four villages in a drive Sf ---r i-tn "----' NFcUnt~s'" cuIated to outflank the heavily-de k-A-.4GG EsSAJLL b..s>.
 Attacking !n rugged terrain against crack new German troops, the French famed out from Vag- ney. l7 miles southeast of Epinal, into the Domaniale Forest and cap- tured Orimont, three miles to the east, and 0eTbaumont, Plaois a.-i Trougement, on an arc one to three miles south and east.