The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-12-22
Eisenhower Urges
 Au-Out Endeavor
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I ton was wheeling his forces north to attack the Luxembourg Salient and to protect his own flank.
 The front was still obScured by German weather"-fog and low hanging clouds which prevented the powerful American Air Forces from moving in to blast the Nazi tank columns from the highways.
 Reports from American air bases said U. s. pilots were gripped by tension unequalled since D-Day as they awaited the word to join the battle.
 There was no doubt powerful American counter-measures were in preparation under cover of great secrecy. United Press War Correspon mt Walter Cronkite was permitted by censorS to report that in trip bac kto Paris from Brussels he saw streams of American ground rein forcements hurrying forward by truck at pace far faster than the trucks were built to travel.
 The latest headquarters announce ment, covering operations through non Wednesday, acknowledged that the main Liege-Alon highway had been cut within 60 miles of Brussels and that a second German armored spearhead was tearing out the American ceinter in Luxembourg 25 miles to the south.
 Only in the north was there clear evidence that the Americans were rallying and swinging back along thhe trail of their bloody three day retreat to recapture cluster of Belgian border villages from the enemy.
 Malmedy, Stavelot, Monschau and their immediate areas still were in American hands early today and the Tanks, bolstered by fresh reinforce ments of men and guns, were beat ing the German Panzers to stand still.
 For a distance of more than 40 miles south of the Malmedy- Stray elot line, however, the First Army front was 8 confused tangle of bat tling men and armor with only sus- pect enemy reports locating the po- sitions of the advanced German elements.
 A front dispatch from nited Press War Correspondent Jack FleiScher quoted an American staff officer as saying that German tanks and mechanical infantry units were spearing steadily westward last night at many points" Dense Fog A driving rain and dense fog again blanketed the battle area, shackling for the fourth straight day the thousands of Allied bomb CTS and fighters that probably could smash the Nazi drive to halt in matter of hours"
 The U. s. Ninth Air Force man. aged to throw light punch against the German rear areas yesterday in spite of the almost impossible fly ing weather, bombing and strafing enemy suply lines and dumps in the Trier area.
 A small formation of RAT Lan- casters also joined in the attack, adding their blockbusters to the American bomb loads on Trier.
 German military reports, which headquarters spokesmen would not confirm or deny, placed the two main NaI columns well west o1 the Liege-Aplon highway which formed one of the main latera. supply links in the U. s. First Army communications chain. RnrfiV1 ~oiI the highway after taking Habiemont which Shaef admitted had fallen more than 30 miles inside the Belgian German border and 14 miles west of Malmedy.
 The second breakthrough, &C., cording to Berlin, was made by a powerful armored force that smashed Squarely across the 20-mile wide northern half of Luxembourg from Walden.
 An Allied communique said the Germans had reached the Wiltz area, 13 miles west of Vianden, by Wednesday and that a supporting column six miles to the north drove as far as Clervaux.
 The twin spearheadS pointed squarely at Bantogne, control point on the Liege Aplon highway, and Nazi spokesmen claimed their armor subsequently broke across the road in that sector. If confirmed, the advance would put Marshal Karl Won RundStetd'S tank columns less than 40 miles from Sedan, the historic invasion gate to France. Still another German mystery column" whose progress was shroud- ed by both Allied and enemy of ficials, may have penetrated as close to Sedan in southern Luxembourg where there were indications that the capital of the Grand Duchy had fallen or been by-passed ill the NaZi sweep.