The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-09-11
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By LOUIS r. KEEMLE (Unlted Press War EdltOf)

American ist Army forces In Lux ofibourg pounded to within 10 miles Of the German border today after freeing the capital of that Duchy in one phase Of Q combined Arnerls can-Brltlsh assault on the Siegfried line from northern Belgium to bee low Nancy on the Moselle river.
 As Allied artillery shelled der- man soil for the first time in the north, the Seventh Army in central France pushed the enemy back to. wards the Belfort Gap on Q front of 100 miles, driving into the out. skirts of Dion and to within 70 miles of Beltort.
 The Fifth ana Eighth Allied Armies in Italy increased their pressure on the outer positions Of the German Gothic line in the cens ter of the peninsula and towards the west as bad weather and stifHening enemy opposition slowed the ad. vance on the Adriatic side. Amerl. can troops took the towns of Prato and PlStoia northwest of Florence and advanced on the main German positions In that sector.
 On the eastern front Soviet forces drove deep Into the mountain dc. lenses of the Hungarian PlaIn, and front dispatches indicated the Rus. slams were on the march from the borders of East Prussia to the Black Sea.
 West Wall Battle
 The developing battle of Ger many'S west wall was in the hands of the British 2nd and the American lst and 3rd Armies on a front of more than 200 miles from the Dutch. Belgian frontier to the Metg- Nancy area on the Moselle. West of this battle line the Canadian ist Army was still engaged in the grim task Of clearing the channel ports of die- hard German garrisons, while the seventh Army was closing the gap on the right flank along the Swiss border.
 The British Second Army driving beyond the Albert Canal in north. eastern Belgium crossed the Escaut Canal almost 20 miles farther east to a point within l.2 miles of the Dutch frontier. The right wing of the British Army and the left wing Of the American First were linked as the two forces converged on the German city of Aachen.
 American tanks and riflemen, knifed almost 20 miles east of cap. tured Liege to the Eupen area, while others to the northwest took Has, selt, 2l miles above Liege. A front line dispatch from the Eupen sector said American artillery had started smelling Aachen. Other dispatches said American and British shells were falling in German territory from supplements barely six miles from the frontier.
 Allied headquarters withheld in. formation on the progress of Lieu tenant George s. Patton's Third Army battling along the Moselle. but front dispatches indicated some of the fiercest fighting of the front was under way there. American artillery pounded at enemy positions on high ground east of the Moselle while dive-bombing planes raked the Ger. man battle lines. Heavy tank forces were in action on both sides.
 The Russian assault on Germany from the east was developing most fully in the Balkans, although Der. lin reported ferocious fighting in Poland. Berlin radio said 100, GOO So- viet infantryInen, supported by an armored corps and Cossack cavalry, was engaged in a major offensive towards Krakow, gateway to Ger man Stlesia. Berlin also reported heavy fighting in the Narew river sector below East Prussia.
 Moscok said that Soviet forces striking from Central Romania drove l8 miles into Romanian Pennsylvania. Mvre than 100 miles to the north, second Russian col- umn pushed across the Carpathians from Bucovina on a 5O-mile front
 Berlin reported that Russian par atroops had been dropped into Yug- oSlavia south of the Iron gate on the Danube and were barely 50 miles from a junctiUiI with Marshal Tito's partisanS. A Yugoslav conlmunique said partisans had captured zaje- car, five miles from the Bulgarian frontier. Other Soviet forces were advancing southwards Bulgaria towards the Greek border after the