The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-02-21

were holding fast to Calcar and the road network leading down the Rhine to the Ruhr, "A miles away.
 Late dispatches reported, however, that Scottish, English and Welsh units fighting under the Canadian banner had rallied and were charg- ing forward again, sparked by a laundering RAF night attack on the big enemy supply and transport center of Dortmund, 50 miles to the southeast
 Clearing weather over the battle area promised further Allied air l blows in support of the bound Allies this morning
 | General H. D. G. Crerar's troops were mopping up scattered German strong points and sniper nests in side Goch, seven miles southwest of Calcar, and armored spearheads pushed out just east of the town to capture the hamletS of Buchholt and HalVenboom.
 Other Scots troops advanced three quarters of a mile southwest of Goch to cut German supply road leading southwest to the MaaS.
 Tn the Calcar area, fierce see-saW battles ragged in Moyland, two miles northwest of Calcar, and on the Goch-Calcar highway about two miles southwest of the town.
 Crerar's headquarters announced that more than 10000 prisoners had been taken in the first two weeks of the Canadian offensive, although only q few hundred of these were accounted for in the past 24 hours. On the U. s. Third Army front, Pat tons troops captured "A German towns and villages and were fighting in two others ln 24-hour advance that netted about 2400 prisoners.
 At the center of their attack front, the Americans practically nullilied 14-mile belt of Siegfried Line Qualifications without a costly frontal assault, Units of the 90th Infantry Division hooked in behind the West Wall from the north and fought down into Ninscheid, 10 miles southwest Of Pruem.
 Fifth Advances
 At the same time. the Fifth h. fantry advanced from the south to positions overlooking the Pruem river, only l3 miles from a juncture with the 90th At both jaws of the pincers German rear guards were fighting hard to hold open an es- cape path for the fortress troops still inside the closing trap, Langfurth and Senge. ich, just Wes of the northern cor : of the threatened Siegfried positions, were captured ard other units of the 90th Division broke into BieWels in the same area.
 The fifth division moving up from the south captured Stockem and Halsdorf, while other units to the northwest and west took Enzen Seimerich Korperich and Obers- gcgcn
 The Echternach Bridgehead through which Pattons troops were advancing to outflank the Siegfried defenSes measured 12 miles in length and bulged six miles into Germany at Halsdorf, it's deepest point
 Bigger gains were being carved out farther to the south in the Moselle-Saar triangle, however where Patton threw armored forces into an attack that won IS towns on an arc running from 1-2 miles northwest to 4 l-2 miles south Of Saarburg.
 The Germans in that sector ap- parently were pulling back rapidly from their field Qualifications into the fixed Siegfried Line defensei behind the Saar river
 Patton's closest approach 10 Saar- burg was made at Fisch, 2 l-2 miles west of the industrial city.
 On the Third Army's right flank, units Of the U. s. Seventh Army edged slowly in on Saarbrucken on a l0-mile front, capturing six French and German border towns within four to give minutes south of the Saar capital
 The Americans broke into the southeastern outskirts of the French industrial town of Forbach, five miles below Saarbrucken, and took the nearby villages of Alsingen Zinzing. Hesseling, Grossblittersdort and Kleinblittersdorf
 There were no major changes on the American First and Ninth and British Second Army fronts opposite ] the Cologne plain, the still-swollen waters of the Roer appeared to pre- clude any big-scale attack there for the next few days.