The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-04-02
British IS Miles
 Beyond Muenster
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east Of Muenster, was menaced by the British advance. Tank columns stcbbing in from the west were re- rorted eight miles from the city this morning and going fast.
 Forty-six miles west of Osna- brueck, the British captured En- schede, the main escape port for the German 18th Army fleeing Hol- land.
 Other Second Army columns reached the Dutch town of Hem eelo, five miles northwest of En- schede, and broke into the burn ing city of Rheine. 20 miles north of Muenster, where the Luftwaffe already had abandoned and de- ssroyed one of its great fighter sta- tiOns in the west.
 Montgomery was wheeling a great part of his British Second and Ca- nadian First Armies northeastward toward the North Sea coast along a front of almost 60 miles from the Rhine town of Emmerich to Muens- ter.
 At Rheine, the British were onyl 74 miles from the great port of Bremen. Tt Hengelo they were 19 miles east of historic Arnhem and 42 miles from the zuyder Zee.
 Canadian Army units farther to the west were 10 miles and more north of Emmerich, still operating under security blackout, but ap- parently closing rapidly on Arnhem from the southeast.
 Allied flyers swarming over the battle area reported that the Ger mans were abandoning Holland at top speed, giving up their V-bomh bases on the seacoast opposite Lon- don.
 At least 10 British tank columns were through the German battle screen, with their easternmost units -.190 miles or less due west of Der lin.
 American First and Ninth army forces, perhaps 25 miles closer to Berlin, were advancing flank to flank with the British, while dough- boys of the two armies stormed through the Ruhr from the north, west and east to wipe out the trapped enemy divisions.
 It. Gen. George s. Patton's U. s. Third Army struck through the German center to the gates of Eis- enach, 152 miles southwest of Ber- lin and only 40 miles from the Nazi governments temporary administra- , tive seat at Weimar.
 70 From Nuremberg ] In the south, the American Sev- septh and French First Armies s krifed deep into the German escape routes leading to Hitler's Hast re- doubt" in the Bavarian mountains. The Tanks were barely 40 miles from the Nazi shrine city of Nuern- berg, and French spearheads were moving on Stuttgart and the Vichy- ite hideaway at Sigmaringen, 31 and 85 miles to the southeast.
 At the far northern end of the battlefront, the Canadian First Army rolled 10 miles into Holland from it's Enmerich bridgehead on ! the Rhine and struck from Nijme- gen in new drive on Arnhem. ' The German 18th army was re- ported abandoning all of Holland, including the vital V-bomb bases on the seacoast. z Muenster, Bielefeld, Paderborn, Kassel, Eisenach, Fulda and Wuerz- burg. kingpins of the Nazi defensive system in the WSST, were in AL lied hands or about to fall, and late front dispatches indicated there was little or nothing left in the path of the Berlin-bound Allied armies.
 All of the Ruhr basin, Germanys last and greatest military arsenal, was enveloped by the American First and Ninth Armies and doughboys of the two striking forces were driv- ing in swiftly from the west, north and east to finish off the remnants of 16 German divisions caught in the 4,500 square mile pocket.