The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-01-31
U,S.Advances
-Four Miles On
FreeziingFront
Over 100000 Men Thrown
Into Drive Against
Germany

Darts Ian. 3O.-tR-The Amer
ION First and Third Armies
washed. sa into the outer defenses CT
.rs siegfried Line today in an at
+.rk approaching major-offenslve
sos4 and gained as much as four
mlas on the frigid, snoW-covereo
Western Front.
S+arting as a series of local
+bn,sts ,hc assault picked up
sYeed and. after several addition
d divisions hae been thrown IN,
ovont,1ally involved we'll over lOc.-
MN men. 1t further increased the
nressure along a 40-nile front on
German military Leaders who al
ready are robbing their WestWall
defenses to bolster positions on the
crl1bing Eastern Front.
The Doughboys overran a num-
Der of Siegfried Line cEtposts and
frontlire correspondents said t n e
Germans previously had evacuat-
ed the positions.
Two of the American 1an1s IN
the new attack are in Germany
and the center CT the line is II
eastern Begun. Tie front eX-
tends from a point just south OF
the Aachen breach in the Siegfried
Line where U. S. attacks were
launched on both sides of the Roer
river to the Third Arny's WEIGH
enhausen bridgehead along the
Our river which 1t. Gen. George
S. Patton's troops expanded to a
depth of mile and half and
a width of four miles.
Meanwhile, the French First Ar
my, incorporating American units,
crossed the Colmar canal at sew
eral points in southern Alsace.
Front dispatches said Allied troops
were engaged in hard fighting
around Fort Schwihr about o n e
and one half miles south Of Col
mar in their drive to encircle the
city,
From the Canadian front in Hol-
land, there were reports that the
Germans apparently were with
drawing troops from the line in
order 10 transfer them to the East
ern Front.
American armor NJ infantry
swept forward through waist-deep
SA0Wdlifts ard a Light snoWstorm
'Ach changed to rain in near
zero temperatures. The First A.
my drove ahead III an explosive
fAe-nour attack in the rugged for
est ?e2,on east Of Monschau ard
slMmelath, outflanking strong pill
boX aetenses and sdlvancing up to
.odr miles into the face of the
olegtNed Line against spotty enc
my resistance.
One American corps officer was
QIo?ec as saying, the attack is
gong so we'll that we are going
" accomplish in one day what we
Aaa hoped to do in two"
Inc action took place in h e
sslAe area where two months ago
Tue Germans had smashed two U.
~, infantry divisions in some of
ule heaviest fighting on tht West
CHI Front Today the Doughboys
encountered only reluctant defen-
sye troops.
one Third Army division drove
quafNer of mile east to a
p W., hfee quarters of mile from
mggchenhausen which is 8 10
s n-leS south Of St. With. The drive
~ ~ lhe Doughboys three quarters
point. az ~
W. olHer units Of the same division
s s''Leo about half mile to the
t ss' and reached the Riech from
mil, gust south of Diepert, 71-2
rorN pelo" St. With. Farther
mT 'hey edged one-auarter of a
! NC, eaS' to Steffhausen which is
T Tlils west of the German border
tb front ION, dispatches sall patrols OF
] n e ian Airborne Division and eie-
sion Of the Sixth Armored Divi-
se~ Now laq leached the Our river in
fr eYeA places over a six-mile front
Clsr , points five miles northeast OF
sav v4Eaux to points ~ miles
sat of the town.
Fd nSsociated Press Correspondent
'front.' m't "a. D. Ball reported from the
had iu', Tina that the U. S. Ninth Division
soutS ea pit Rohren which is Just
The 'l 1r OF the Roer at the edge q
South ~o N forest, two miles
obe u Of o. the town Of Monschau
Of vill. divisions occupied a string
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