The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-01-22
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 Southeast of Wiltz, the Ameri- cans also were showing the Ger mans rapidly back across the from tier into the Siegfried Line in a general advance northward from tho Sure river.
 Kehmen. midway between Witz and DieIrich, was captured, along with Bourscheid, a mile farther north. and Landscheir, three miles east.northeast of Bourscheid.
 At Landscheid, the Americans were only three miles west of Vian- den. one of the main corridors through which Marshal Karl von Runstedt poured his attacking di- visions at the beginning of the Ar eiennes offensive in mid-December.
 Vianden itself was under heavy snellfire and front dispatches said American gunnerS were pouring a murderous fire into tightly packed German columns attempting to es- cape over a single Sure river bridge into the Reich.
 On the northern flank, tanks and infantrymen of the American F1rst Army smashed a German rear guard entrenched in the village Of Born, three miles north of St. With, after an all-day battle during which the Germans were killed and 165 were captured. The Americans pushed on beyond the town toward St. Vlth and the fall of that highway center was expected almost hourly.
 The main highway lines running through St. With already were De- lieved useless to the enemy as a re- suit of American interdictlng flre' and the Nazis were reported using a few secondary roads farther south.
 The sudden collapse in the soutn was interpreted as meaning that the enemy did not plan any further major action west of the Siegfrled line.
 Aerial reconnaissance revealed large-scale troop movements behind the Siegfried forts directly opposite the Ardennes bulge, and observers believed the Nazis, having extrlcateo the bulk of their divisions from the salient. were shifting them hur- riedly north and south to meet the British and French thrusts.
 British Second Army forces 10 the north broadened their drive into the Nazi salient above Sittard against steadily increasing resist arlce. widening their front to more than l2 miles, the British fought forward through driving snow storm to capture StevensWeert, nine miles north of Sittard, and St. Joost, a mile farther east in the Echter Brock forest.
 Five miles to the southeast, the Tommies stormed back into the German village of Waldefeucht after losing it once to Nazi coun- ter-attack, and advanced another mile to take Booklet. The Germans were fighting back hard with tanks and infantry and at several points NaM paratroop endorsements were reported in action
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 Headquarters gave no immediate details on the progress of the French First Army drive north of Mulhouse on the Alsace Plain, eX- cept that the Poilus were carving out steady gains in the face of a blinding snowstorm and stubborn enemy resistance.
 Unconfrmed Swiss reports said the French captured Il towns lying in a 10-mile arc one to four miles above Mulhouse, including Reinin- que. Kingersheim, Sausheim, Bourth weller. Richwiller, Lutterbach, Pfas- tatt, Elsisheim, Ollzach, Modem helm and Sennenheim.
 Latest official reports on the at tack said the French gained three miles on 25-mile front Saturday in a drive apparently aimed at re- lieving the pressure on the Amer ican Sevenuth Army Forces north of Strasbourg.
 The Seventh Army front was more or less static yesterday, although the Germans threw in several small scale attacks in the Drusenheim Wyerrsheim and Herrlisheim sectors of their Rhine brideghead above Strasbourg, all of which were re- pulsed easily. Sparodic fighting also continued around the perimeter o1 the Bitche Salient farther west while a light Nazi counter attack against the American bridgeheao across the Saar river north of Saar- lautern was broken up by heavy shellfire.
 Headquarters disclosed that tht German 10th SS Panzer Division which Moscow said had been trens- ferred from the Ardennes to tho eastern front, had turned up on tht U. s. Third Army's front south ol Trier. Three more of the 20 Uaz divisions know nto have been in the Ardennes were said to have beer shiftel souts to the U. s. Seventh Army front