The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-09-05

British drive Into Belgium, also was taken.
 Headuuarters had no comment on the reports that It, Gen, George g., pattons American Srd Army eol- umns, which have been operating under Q security "blackout" for days, had invaded Luxembourg and possi' bly, Germany itself,
 Latest official information put the Americans between Verdun and Metz and approaching Nancy ct the southern end of their line,
 Gen, Dwight D, Eisenhower hint- cd strongly that operations were In progress inside Luxembourg or were about to begin there, announcing late yesterday that the liberation of that country and Belgium was under way and that the fight for the Netherlands was imminent,
 NNA hroadeaStS made it clear, that the greater battle of Germany itself was approaching swiftly, If 1t had not already begun,
 An ofAeial Berlin spokesman broadcast Rn appeal to the German people last night to rise against the Allied Invader and to put the torch to everything in the path of Eisen. howerS armies,
 Grim Warning
 "Not one grain of German crops shall fall Into the enemy'S hands no German shall guide him, no Ger. man hand shall help him., the spokesman declared in Q grim warm ing to possible fifth columnists in. side the Reich,
 Nothing but death and destruc- ton shall meet him. He shall bleed horribly for every meter of German soil which belongs to us and which he wants to rob us of,"
 Other Berlin propagandists boast. cd that their armies, on the run everywhere from the Channel to AlSace- Lorraine, would stand and fight on their Slegfried Line.
 The American First Army in the Valley of the Mouse, meanwhile, was reported at Liege, barely 25 miles from Aachen, and unconfrmed re. ports said U. s. artillery was shell. ing the German city.
 West Of Lege
 West of Liege, American First Army units were mopping up iso. lated pockets of German resistance nehi Mons and south of Tournai, and United Press War Correspond ent Henry T. Gorrell reported that 10000 thoroughly.heaten Germans surrendered in the Mons area yes- terday.
 The bag of captives was still mounting last night, and Gorrell said 1t might reach 30,0oo when the final count Is in-one of the biggest roundups since D-Day.
 Five thousand of the Germans surrendered to one American bat talion yesterday, including crack paratroops, Nazi Elite Guards and well-equipped panzer units, Gorrell said, indicating that the Nazis were completely demoralized and unable to offer cohesive defense.
 Swift Advance
 Canadian First Army troops con- tinued their swift advance up the Channel coast north of the Somme, and observers on the British side of the Dover Straits said the thunder of cannonading in the Boulogne area was clearly audible this morn ing.
 Latest offlcial reports said the Canadians had reached Etaples, about l3 miles south of Boulogne, Contreuil, g 1-2 miles southeast of EtapleS, and Hesdin, l3 miles south- east of Montreuil.
 German demolition squads were believed blowing up installations at Boulogne and Calais, and London morning newspapers said great fires were raging in Dunkerque as the Nazis prepared to quit the robot coast. The by-passed German gar- rison in Le Havre, however, was still holding out determinedly after re- jecting Canadian ultimatum to surrender.