The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-09-19
Joined Armies Capture Eindhoven, Dutch City
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NsAe N0N eN the British to capture Eindhoven, Esp. four miles to the north, and 0eldrop, four miles east of Eind- hovon,
 The British And Army was across the Belgian frontier into the Neth- erlands in great strength at three points above the ESeaut Canal - north of Gheel, Lommel and Heohtel - with Allied paratroopS strung out oil across Holland holding open Q path for their tanks and armored troop carriers into Germany,
 Front dispatches said the hard hitting pNratroops were spreading panic and confusion through the enemy rear, raising the possibility of a British March into the Ruhr similar to It, Gen, George s, Pat- tons whirlwind drive across eastern France,
 New Threat
 The new threat of Invasion came as the Germans threw crack ou- visions into 0 series of bloody coun. ter-attaeks farther south that slowed the American iSt Army push into the Reich but failed to close the breaches already torn in their Siegfried Line,
 At the same time, Berlin taeitly admitted tho loss of the big Atlantic port of Brest to American troops,
 There was no immediate Allied confirmation of the capture of BreSt, where one of the bloodiest battles of the French campaign has been raging for more than Q month,
 "WlthdrawAw
 A German high command conn munlque, however, said the Nasi garrison had withdrawn from the once-great port believed to have been partially ra1ed by Allied land and air bombardment and enemy demolitions,
 Today's Allied oommuniqpe said only that American infNntrylnen preached the fortress wall in the northern part of BreSt in two places and partly occupied the western Su- hurh of Reeouvranee,
 About 10000 Germans, including and-locked U.boat sailors and oth- or naval personnel, dug into the city when the Americans broke into the Breton peninsula and held out stubhornly under heavy attack from land, sea and air to prevent the Al- lies from obtaining the use of the first-rAte port facilities,
 The NaSi DNB News Agency said earlier that al German infantry guns in DreSt had been "ellminAt- cd" and that only Q few naval and coastal artillery batteries still were firing this morning
 StAlOmAte Broken
 As the NASiS conceded defeat la their isolated western pocket, It, Gen, George s, Patton'S U, s, 3rd Army broke the Stalemate on the Moselle with powerful eastward thrust toward the German frontier that carried at least 20 miles be- yond Nancy and frightened tho ring around Metz
 Simultaneously the American 7th Army squeezed in closer to the Bel fort gap against stiffening oppoa- ton, and Canadian iSt Army troops on the French Channel coast fought Into the streets of Doulogne at bay onet point,
 while the Germans struggled desperately to hold the Allied ar- mics in Holland, It, Gen. Courtney IT, Hodges' U. 8. lSt Army drove across the Dutch border Into Ger many east of SimpelVeld, seven miles north of Aaehen, A second Spearhead striking beyond captured MaaStrieht neared the border in the area of Sittard, l7 miles northwest of Aaehen,
 Aaehen itself was closely envel- oped and official reports indicated some Doughboys had fought Into the streets of the city,
 Southeast of Aaehen, Hodges men beat off desperate counter. blows by German tanks and shock troops, losing some ground under the eTle- my assault and then coming back to capture several towns well inside the border, including Hofen, and BuSbaeh,
 E~aAVt sVutkl Vle AlnerlCNtls also expanded their salient inside Germany above Prum and made Q new penetration of the Reich at Huttingen, 20 miles below that town,
 United Press War Correspondent Robert Richards reported from the Third Army front that Pattons men were on the move toward Ger many again after Q long staiemate imposed by supply difficulties,
 One armored spearhead pushed beyond Nancy to within about 30 miles of the German frontier, ap- parently aiming at Strashourg, while other units crossed the Mo selle In force below Metz, threat ening to outflank that fortress.