The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-01-05
Tough Arr1lor,
Infantry Units
Lunge Forward
Germons Score
Two Miles Against
u. S. Seventh Army

IAhlO, Jan. - VI -Vet~
eran British Infantry and armor
thrown into the Belgian bulge
counterattack by Field Marshal
Sir Bernard l.. Montgomery,
commanding all Allied forces on
the north side of the salient,
have gained up to 1000 yards all
along their front.
This was disclosed at SUI
preme headquarters today along
with the fact that the us.
First and Ninth armies have
been under Montgomery's COM
mand since Dec. 20, when the
Germans were threatening to
hrsak the Allies Western Front
toreesS
While the British gained on
the north today, the German at
tack into Northeastern France
against the US. Seventh Army
developed into a full offensive
with drive forward for two
more miles southeast of Bitche
close TO Is miles inside France
and within IL miles of the Sa-
verne Gap. the key to Stras.
bourg.
Second Army tanks
and Infantry went into action
yesterday at the northwestern
tip of the Won Rundstedt salient
and reached Waha in push Of
$500 yards. :,
DRIVE CONTINUES
The drive is continuing, Field
dispatches said. and nettcd up
to 1000 yards, all along its front
from Marche to the right flank
of the S. First Army 10 the
east.
Other British units attacked
the Germans on the outskirts Of
newly captured Bure and Wav.
reille, south of Rochefort at the
western end Of the Salient.
The British were rushed to
the front at the first sign of dan.
ger to Liege when Won Rund-
stedt launched his offensive and
backstopped American lines un-
til yesterday, when they went
on the offensive.
Six Allied and German arm
les thus were committed to tho
grinding battle being fought in
drifting snow, fog and misera-
bic Terrain-some of the worst
fighting conditions of the war
and the Allied assault on the
German North Flank was broad
ened to IS miles.
With slow. steady gains on .
l7-mile front on the north side
OF the Salient, 1t. Gen. Court
ney H. Hodges US. First
Army in its three-day old attack
had whitfield down the German
escape gap between Bastogne
and Grandmenti to scarcely IL
miles.
On the south side of the sa.
lient held by three German ar.
mics. 1t. Gen. George S. Patton's
Third Army turned back II
fierce German counterattacks up
to 6 a. m. today, but his 'front.'
was substantially unchanged.
NINTH ON MOVE:
Berlin said yet a fourth AL.
lied army, the U. S. Ninth, had
been brough: down from tho
Aachen area to bolster q pile
driver attack, but Supremo
Headquarters had no comments
on this report.
Moving up under terrible con.
ditions in which tanks stalled on
icy slopes, and slithered down.
hill. tearing out the telephone
communications at the sides OF
the roads. Hodges men had plow.
ed forward as much as 3 u miles
for their maximum gain on Z
front which extended from Beffe.
eight miles east of Marchc, To
Bergeval. four miles southwest
Of Stavelot.
The Germans, some clad in
white snowsuits. fought mainly
from frozen foxholes and solid
positions white the doughb0yy
slogged across icy fields and
roads made more perilous BY
snow-covered mines.
The blizzard which yoG1cRdny
their assault ~ ~, q
but II was replaced 1oS1
grey clouds end BID toA u,
BITTER FI0n1ug0 v ~
In Alsace. wkero ~ Oh J
Seventh Army slos - ~
off German soil. villADoD = Il
ID hands time end -
he deepest Germ1n 49, Ool0 &
even to 10 miles. "