The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-11-17
GERMAN LINES SAG UNDER POUNDING
AS YANk OFFENSIVE GAINS HEADWAY
7 Million Men
at Death Cribs

By WILLIAM l. RYAN
LONDON Nov II -tAPl- German lines SOD
eed under twin offensves in the RhineIond todoy as
the First u. s. Army drove forward two miles toword
Ouren and the Ninth Army begged long lines of pris-
oners.
It. Gen. Courtney n. Hodges First Army infon-
try and on'or sIoshed to point six miles west Of
Ouren, important industrial town 20 miles west Of
Cologne, despite sIeet and rain storms.
Germon's western lines rocked to the thunder
Of hundreds Of guns in the Aochen sector the smash
OF new ornored columns from the MoseIIe bridge
heads, the weight Of increasing attacks in Holland
as the Allies made supreme bid for victory
MASSIVE FORCES
Perhaps 100000 men we're orroyed in bottle
on both sides in the critical test of German stoyinq
power
1t. Gen. William H. Simpsons Ninth Army in
creased the pressure Of the attack in it's second doy
north Of Aochen, front line dispatches soid coptur-
edTseverui more towns and turned beck Tiger tank
counterottock.
A German military commentator Iote in the aft
ernoon sold break had been made in the Germon
lines near StoIbere, and dispotch from the front
sold breaks appeared to have been made at several
places.
cAPTIvEs STREAM IN
Long streams Of bottle-shottered Germon pris-
oners lined the roads back to American prison coees
Flight otter flight of Thunderbot fehter-bomb-
ers streoked under cloud layers over the front.
To the north the British crossed the Zig Conol
otter clearing out triangle formed by that chonnel
and the Noord and Wessem Canals and virtuolN
closed up to the Macs River bend on seven-mile
front at Roermond in Holland
Here the German radio declared major ottock
is likely to be launched I'm few Days time"
ARMoR ATTACK
To the south 1t. Gen. George S Potion, Jr, threw
new ornored forces into the Third Ays bottle from
the brideeheods Thionvi|Ie which were punched
os for as eight miles cost Of Koeniesmocher.
Drawing their net tighter about Gernons pos
sbly preparing for siege stand inside Metz, Third
Army troops completely surrounded the Verdun fort
group just southwest Of the city and across the Mo
seIIe from the stronghold Of Fort Driont lnfontry
captured lory lie Metz, q mile northwest of the
city.
The twin offensive Of the First and Ninth Armies
had deepened the fve-to OniIe wedge in the Sieo-
fried Line by at least two miles, with the dough-
boys fighting within seven miles of JuIich ord
81 to 70 miles from Cologne on the Rhine.
Four powerful American ornnes bothered through.
rain and snow toward the German Rhinelond today
otter first doy gains Of up TO two miles in great new
offensive, while to the north the British Second Ar
my fottened the Noz bulge west Of the Moos. reoch-
ing the river with the capture Of Wessem.
REACH FRONTIER
British voneuords now ore only 4h miles from
the Reich frontier ct the nearest point in the Venlo
Roermond sector. The troneIe formed by the Noords
Wessem and Zig Conos wos cleared olmost entirely
Of Germons, ond the enemy wos ticking up positions
main defense line cost Of the Mons.
The w. S. Ninth Army, thrown suddenly yssso<
doy into ottoek now being pressed g. six eroq
orrnies along q 30O-me front bsfos@l
homeland, registered gains Of "se~et G(l
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