The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-09-26

I Monday, but it was not disclosed whether they were parachuted to the sky soldiers at oosterbeek or to forwafd clements of the relief column.
 Behind the Allied spearhead at Arnhem, British and American forces made further progress in widening the supply corridor ex- tending up from the Belgian bor- der.
 British and Army troops drove in- to the ReuSel area, l5 miles south- west of Eindhoven, coming within nine miles of junction with Ca- nadian lst Army units that entered Turnhout and crossed the Antwerp Tlrnhout canal west of that town,
 Other British forces pushed the wall of their corridor out seven to eight miles northeast and east of Eindhoven, capturing Richmond and Deurne and swinging seven to eight miles north of the latter town, Simultaneously another column knifed eight miles south of Nijme- gen to capture Nook, about II miles from 0 junction with the Deurne force,
 Traffic Halted
 American airborne NnitS operat- ing with British tanks broke up @ strong German road block that halted all traffic on the Elndhoven- Nijmegen highway for several hours yesterday.
 The Germans threw about 5000 infantrymen, 10 to l5 tanks and self-propelled guns across the road between Veghel and st. Oedenrode and ranged up and down the high way shooting up British trucks, but finally were driven off,
 Clark reported that Allied success es east and west of the Eindhoen- Nijmegen highway in the past 24 hours nearly doubled the width of the corridor around EindhoVen and that Q second unidentified supply road had been opened to Nijmegen
 There was no official word on tho progress of the Allied columns stab- ping Into German soil southeast of Nijmegen, although Q dubious re- port broadcast by the French ra- do Montpelier said the Allies had captured Kleve, l2 miles southeast of Nijmegen and the northern 0n . ohor Of the Siegfried Line,
 LuRtwaffe
 The Luftwaffe appeared in eon- siderable strength over Holland yes- terday, coming up in formations running to 100 fighters to challenge RAT typhoons and American me- dium bomhers attacking the Ger man planes,
 Heavy rains slowed operations on the U, s, lst Army front east of Aaehen, where American guns yeS- terday poured ono of the heaVieSs barrages of the war Into the Rhino- land. Scattered patrol operationa were reported, and headquarters said at one point tho German forces sent several thousand civilian refu- gees of undlsclosed nationality back through the American lines to place the burden of feeding and housing them on tho Americans,
 Farther south, American Sd Army forces beat off Q half-do2en Ger man counter. attacks in the DieuSe sector northeast of Nancy, knocking out another eight enemy tanks, The Germans were reported digging In feverishly in that area in eXpecta- ton of heavy American aerial at' taeks as soon as the weather lifts,
 Southeast of Nancy, the 7th Army cleared tho last defman TO. sistonee from EpInal and captured JeuXey, two miles to the east The 7th Army also scored general ad- vances around the shoulder of the Vosges mountains between Epina! and Belfort, capturing c number ot strongpoints on the Lure-Beltort highway, An American Spearhead by-pasSed Ronehamp and pushed on to less than eight miles nortswest of Bel- fort.