The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-08-29
The WorO On
 Many Fronts
Ny LOUIS F. KEEMLE United Press War EditorD

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 American forces sweep beyond the Marne river today in a powerful drive towards Compiegne, SOissons and the communications center of Reims, pressing the Germans re. lentlessly back in the direction Of the Belgian border and the gate way to the Rhineland.
 The Germans were in retreat along a front of about 200 miles from Troyes. southeast of Paris. to the mouth of the Seine at Le Havre. At the same time Allied forces far to the south were clearing the dis- organized Germans from the Vai- lev of the Rhone and the entire Mediterranean coast after the col lapse of all enemy resistance at Toulon and Marseille.
 On the eastern front the Rus sians broke through the Carpathian barrier into Hungarian-held Tran Sylvania, extended their advance through the Galati Gap towards Bu.harest in Romania. and were rapidly clearing tine Lower Danube in the Black Sea area.
 The most spectacular gains in France were being made by the armored infantry and tanks of It. Gen. George s. Patton's U. s. Third Army. which crossed the Marne in strength at two points and drove rapidly eastward south of the Marne and along the Upper Seine beyond Troyes towards the vosges Mountains.
 Principal Crossings
 The principal crossings of the Marne were north Of Meaux and Midway between that city and his- toric Chateau-Thierry. The armor- cd columns swept by on either side of the graves of American dead of 1918 at chateau-Thierry and Bel- ieau Wood. and front-lile reports indicated the Memorial bridge over the Barne at Chateau-ThierTy and probably other 1918 monuments Gero left intact after more than four years of German occupation.
 AZ the other end Of the front iI northern France. the survivors of the German Seventh Army wno had not escaped across the Seine Were in three pockets on the south bank of the river. Allied forces streamed acros sthe Seine at se- cured crossing from Paris tO the cost and apparently were headed in the general direction of the robot bomb coast and Dieppe, Amiens and BoulOgne.
 The enemy columns everywhere af, G1.a.I and sileir lines of supply and com- munications were being raked all across northern France. the Low Countries. Luxembourg. and the reich itself.
 Rear FinaI Stages
 The fighting in southern France was described as nearing its final stages by the United Nations radio at Algiers. which said there is no front and no line"
 French forces crossed the lower Rhone at two more points. took Mines and pressed on southwest ward to clear the coast towards the spanish border of scattered Ger man forces.
 Farther north on the Rhone the largest remaining organized group of the diglntegrated German 18th Army was being destroyed in a pocket near MODtelimaT, 80 miles south of Lyon. The flnai toll there vas expected to be 10000 to I5O0O killed or captured.
 To the east Allied forces were within sig miles Of Nice and were meeting stlffer German resistance because of the threat to the enemy rear in northern Italy,
 Tine Germans on the Adriatic side Of the Italian front we're reported in general withdrawal n0rtBwards. British patrols found large areas undefended and Polish units crossed the Arzilla riyer to within a few miles Of the supposed start Of the German Gothic Line,
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 On the Rolnapiap front, Rassiap HaBhs and infantry moved through NnR 0ltug Pass tD the carpatli9ps knke e bT0ad valley Of F'ransylyapia mHahelling 2S miles tO the Bucharest Budapest railway, The Russians took Brectu, nine miles across the bors der given to the Hnngariaps by Hltr Ter in gee0 and pressed 0D towards the iTunk railway and the junction of Bras0Y
 TO the south, the German DNB News Agency said Soviet forces Rdg vanelng through the dalaii Gap % R0nlania had captured Buzau, only lO miles from the Pl0esit oil fields and b7 miles from Bucharest, M0ss COW dlsnatebeg said otller tfuksl9D columns were moving south from neEjy-eapsalTad T'uleea 0p the Dopg allae toWaras G0staDta, the last lDls p0TtaDt Black Sea port 70 oeFleap hands.
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