The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-08-31
British hArmored Troops Capture City of Amiens
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als iegces, quit cold before Amiens end aimply lay down along the road- Alda Co watch the British armor fon by. They were rounded up with.
 Wsasiea columna
 The woafied British columns. Als ready had covered more than co miles ln @ hours but they pushed on swiftly ln the conviction they soon would be marching on German soll.
 me next main objective in their path was Arrhs, al miles Co the northeast. Boulogne lay e2 miles to lhe northwest, Calais a miles noEthanorthwest and Dunkerque, Nhefe the British Expeditlonary Force vas cut to ribbons by the Wehrmacht in ie4o, was 77 miles to me north.
 The British armor, rolling now At Q speed that matched that of The American tank columns east of Paris, waB revealed Co be led by It. Den. Slr Richard o'Connor. famed desert warrior who was captured by Che Afrika Korps in Libya and es- eaped.
 There was no new word on pro- Erese of the American ist and 3rd Armies today, and headquarters spokesnen said Ls. Gen. George s. pAeton'B srd Army columns again were operating under security si- lence.''
 Front dispatches. unconfrmed at hendquarters but apparently veri- fed by German broadcasts. said one wing of patton's forces had reached SC. Dixier, i6 miles east southeast of Vltry-Le Francois and about es miles from the German horder.
 Another American ar1nored force Was reported to have taken an un- named town % miles from the Bel. glan frontier, presumably in the area above Laon.
 Nnnls Seek Shelter
 Field dispatches said the Germans were running for the shelter of the Maginot and Eiegfried Lines on the EFanco~CB German border. Forward clements of the American armies wUre believed barely 50 miles from those Qualifications. however. and t was not expected the Nazis could make a major stand there.
 Gen. Dwight D Eisenhower de- elared iiatly th sream Of the Herman arm fthern ana outheFn Franc. n destroyed ard reiterated his lr prediction that the European ar could be
 United Press War Correspondent Robert c. Miller reported from the 0. s. srd Army front that an esti. mated 10000 Germans have been captured, o0OO0 wounded and l9000 killed by Patton's men in tfe last si Gays and an Army spokesman said the Naxis now were believed to have fewer than 10000 men left Co defend northern France.
 s Days Ahead
 Eisenhower revealed that the march across France already was five days ahead Of schedule and the drive was expected to gain mo- 41A|A4AA4tA WAttA NtE lANo1sAtAttH Da Aatt &0mmer line-the last major river barrier held by the Germans in the north.
 The fall of Amlens Outflanked more han 100 ntiles of tire robot bomb coast from Ahbeville to north of the some.
 The sine of the robots ard their explosive charge would make their movement by highway impractical and ik could be presumed that bases along the isolated stretch of the coast wuold become useless as soon as their present stock of missiles laas been exhausted.
 The Pes De Calais coast farther north also has been supplied in part by the railways passing through Ainiens. but it still has contact with supply depots inland by way of Lille and Brussels.
 Push BpBFFed
 The British forces were spurred in the push northward behind the invasion coast by the fact that the deadly harTage Of flying torpedoes alredy has killed many Of their wives. children and friends and en. aaneeEs others % long as the ter.