The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-01-24
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Pocket registered continuing gains which, 1t was believed, may force the Germans to relax their pressure to the north where Strasbourg is threatened.
 A front dispatch from Richard D.. McMillan, United Press War Core spondenS with the British Second Army, reported the Germans ap- parently have withdrawn at least two divisions from the British sec tor for use in the east.
 One NaZi division was said to have been split--half remaining on the western front and the other half going to the east.
 A report from Clinton B. Conger, United Press War Correspondent, with tile U. s. Seventh Army said that the anticipated German at tack on new American lines in AL sace had apparently been delayed, possibly by the critical needs of the Wehrmacht in the east.
 Massed American artillery and swarms of fighter -bombers contin- ued to pour explosives on enemy columns streaming eastward from the Bulge toward railway embarka- ton points behind the Siegfried Line for possible transfer to Silesia and Poland.
 Six thousand vehicles, tanks, horse-drawn transport, railway cars and locomotives were destroyed or damaged Monday and Tuesday in the first two days alone of the bom- bardment. There were strong in- dicationS that the German Sixth Panzer Army had been caught on the move.
 Advancing close behind the re- treating enemy the American First and Third Armies sent patrols into Vianden, southern anchor of the Ar denneS Bulge on the rim of the Siegfried Line, seized nine-mile stretch of the Clerf river in Luxem- bourg and beat off four rear-guard counter attacks around liberated St. With, northern anchor of the bulge.
 l2 Towns Overrun
 A dozen or more towns and vil- lageS were overrun in the advances tht compressed the German salient almost to the vanishing point l. once extended 56 miles into Bel gium.
 The Germans threw 200 infantry men and seven tanks against Walle- rode, two miles northwest of St. With last night, but the attack was con tained," front dispatch said Three smaller counter attacks southwest of St. With also were repulsed, though one of them gained tempo rary control of railway.
 Lieutenant General Sir Miles C.. Dempsey's British Second Army north of Aachen matched the Amer ican gains with the capture of Ap- hoven, Schiefendahl and Straeten in q drive to within r miles south west of the Rhineland industrial center of Munchen- -Gladbach The advance put the British five miles inside Germany northeast of Sit tard.
 Far to the south, the French of- fensive north of Colmar in French Alsace cut both the main highway and railway between Colmar and and Strasbourg and carried across the III river. One bridge was seized intact across the III and another was being installed.
 German attacks were repulsed at KilStett, near the Rhine seven miles north of Strasbourg. Farther west, American artillery wiped out half an enemy column of 30 vehicles in the Bitsche Salient and dispersed other German concentrations. The American Seventh Army again was in contact with the Ger mans all along the line north and east of Haguenau, Is miles north of Strasbourg, following an American strategic withdrawal from the Mag mot line in northern Alsace.
 A front dispatch said the Germans were attempting to infiltrate the American line, but gave no clue to their success, if any.
 Supreme headquarters declined tc delineate the area yielded voluntar- fly to the enemy. While it might cover anywhere from one to 1OC miles, headquarters said that nc large towns" were abandoned.
 Patrols of the American Fourth Division entered Vianden, southern anchor of the Ardennes bulge, yes terday in preparation for the grand assault on the town, which lies or tEe west bank of the Our river just inside the Luxembourg border from Germany.
 Simultaneously, the divisions tanks crunched through Is inches of snow along ridge northeast oi , Vianden to cut off all escape fol the garrison except across the river in their rear.
 WaIsdOrf Cleared Walsdorf, one and half milet southwest of Vianden, was cleared of the enemy and fighting was 1T progress in Fouhren, half milt south, where a .5mall enemy counter. attack was repulsed
 The 90th and the Sixth Calvar, divisions in northern Luxembourg seized a nine-mile stretch of tht west bank of the Clere river, run. ning frCn1 Drauffel, four and hal miles northeast of WiltZ, to Bins field, Il miles eas tof Houffalize.
 Clervaux. in the center of thu Clerf river line and Vianden thu largest Luxembourg town within the bulge stil in German hands, Wert threatened by forces which seizet Boxhorn, two miles northwest, anc high ground near Eselborn, one mil' northwest.
 Binsfeid fell to elements of tn, 90th division in a two and half mile advance from the southwest Trois Vierges. road junction tw' miles west of Binsfeld and larges town in the northern tip of Luxem bourg, was captured by the Sixtl arnored divisions.
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