The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-09-19

Holland.
1t. Gen. Miles c. Dempsey's Sec
ond army, advancing 16 miles in
the last two days, was known to
have patrols operating both north
and west of the city, which still is
in German hands. T h town of
Aalst, three miles south of Find
hove, was captured.
Clearing the way for the arrival
of more elements of this army, the
British southwest Of Eindhoven
planted another bridgehead across
the Meuse Escaut canal north OF
the Belgian town of Lommel.
The handful of American war
correspondents VINO landed with
the parachute troops and glider in
fantry, said the battle for the
bridges was bitter, but that Ameri-
can casualties were Light.
These forces, now welded togeth-
er across the best lines of German
retreat from western Holland, were
bolstered throughout the day by
strong sky troop forces landed by
elders.
The Paris radio said the airborne
Allies had occupied Tilburg, Mig
megen and Eindhove, but this was
not confirmed in other quarters.
Equally important, the giant sky
train was unloading field artillery
and other heavy equipment. while
guardian fighter planes patrolling
in great strength knocked down at
least q of the 200 German planes
which tried to derail the aerial ex-
press.
Clouds of bombers dropped sup
plies and scourged German re-
serves attempting to come up to
enter the spreading struggle.
These reinforcements were being
sealed off from the young, green
troops who broke and ran under
the shock of Sundays first landings,
leaving their arms in the field and
fleeing from at least IS villages.
The Germans declared the main
weight of this unprecedented aerial
operation was falling on the Dutch
city of Nijmegen and had spread
north across Hollands most for
midable water barriers at Anthem.
Anthem is 800 miles west of Der.
lin, is Is miles northwest of the
reputed Siegfried line terminal Of
Kleve, and is beyond both the Waal
Ryn and the Neder Ryn, main
arms of the Rhine and most trou.
blesome of Netherlands water haz.
ards.
! Supreme Headquarters, announc
ing the arrival of fresh units Of
the first Allied airborne army, re.
ported operations were ''goins
well'', good sign since it included
the first critical hours after the
landings when sky forces are mos.
vulnerable to counterattack.
In the battle for the Siegfriee
line, doughboys fought we'll inside
the frontier fortress city of Aacher
after crushing German resistance
on the outskirts and 10 miles t.
the northwest were attacking il
gre t strength near Sittard, {;
Dutch city mile from the Ger
man frontier.
Nearly 40 miles southeast Ct
Aachen other forces drove across
into Germany mile or two from
the Luxenburg border, keeping
up the relentless pressure along
most of the west wallis length.
The u. S. Third Army, clearing
the Germans from their last foot
holds in France, fought to a poinr
10 miles east Of Nancy and were
nearing the peaks of the Vosge.
mountains, which block the roae
to the French frontier city of Stras
bourg.
Midway between Nancy and Metz
1t. Gen. George S. Patton's troops
hurled back waves OIL counterat
lacking Germans east of Pont-A
Mousson and worked in behine
Metz itself in move to take tha1
important railway city and clear
the way to Germany's Saar basin
BY the account of the Paris radio
the Seventh Army on the extreme
south of the front entered Belfort
80 miles from the Rhine, but Of
fetal accounts placed them nc
nearer than Lure, II miles west,
and near Montbeliard, 10 miles
south.
Canadian infantry swept into the
French channel port of Boulogne,
whose garrison had stood off weeks
of heavy assaults. and were cutting
enemy forces into isolated pockets
in drive to clear its good harbor
for the landing of more Allied for
ces and supplies. They were TAX
ing hundreds of prisoners.
Ten miles north they drove al
most to the tip of Cap Grisnez,
leaving the Germans in possession
only of the lighthouse and one
strongpoint.
| AS German resistance bent I'M
der the weight of seven attacking
Allied armies, spokesman for
Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower told
the German people that a military
government would be set up inside
the Reich to sweep away the last
vestiges Of Naziism.
The spokesman, in a broadcast
beamed t othe Reich, said Gen.
Eisenhower would WELD supreme
legislature, judicial and executive
authority with the prime objective
of destroying the Nazi regime and
eliminating from responsible posi-
tons everyone loyal to Hitler. I