The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-03-28
Eastern Push
Partly Under
Security Ban
Junction OF Seventh And
Third Armies Believ.
ed Completed

PARIS, Wednesday, March Is
(R-Allied armies poured east In
torrent through smashed Ger
man lines yesterday. led by U. 5.
First Army tank forces knitting ~
more miles eastward and break
ing arross the Dill river where
the enemy was desperately trying
to rally for a stand 235 miles from
Berlin.
The entire front blazed with the
fires of victory as seven Allied
armies pressed home what Gen.
Eisenhower declared was one OF
the greatest triumphs Of any war.
A front dispatch said "the rout is
under way"
The Rhineland battle, forever
black day in Prussian military his
tory, had stripped the Germans Of
the power to make another sue
cessful stand although Eisenhower
said they yet would form tenn.
porary line.
But now one Of those lines had
been broken by the First Army's
dash, which swept into Herborn and
across the Dill river, even as the
enemy tried to form a line there
to repair the disasters of the Rhine.
Twelve miles to the southeast,
another First Army tank force was
closing on Wetzlar, 81 miles be-
yond the Rhine.
News blackouts closed over these
spearheads, just as they did over
racing U. S. Third Army tank coll
umns, which had shredded de-
lenses Of the river Main at many
points southeast of Frankfurt and
by enemy account were loose 225
miles southwest of Berlin.
On the north flank, the British
Second Army broke completely
through the enemy lines on the
north German plain and dashed
eastward almost unopposed under
another security blackout.
The U. S. Seventh Army dashed
out from its new bridgehead north
OF Mannheim, cut the Frankfurt
Mannheim superhighWay at a Sec
ond point and was nine miles east
OF the Rhine. 1t probably had link
ed up with the Third Army in its
Mainz-Worms crossings.
General Eisenhower declared that
the Wehrmacht "as military force
on the Western Front is whipped
Army" and called the Allied tri-
umph along the Rhine one of the
greatest of any war. He predicted
the Nazis would be beaten into ABB
ject surrender-that there would
be no negotiations.
Partial censorship shrouded the
extent of the sensational Allied
advances, but the enemy radio
said U. S. Third Army columns
were approaching Wuerzburg in
Bavaria, 223 miles from Berlin.
and had reached Lohr, 225 miles
from the rubbed German capital
Third Army Doughboys were
fighting in the heart of Frankfurt
on the east side of the Main river
after charging across a damaged
railroad bridge in the face of blix.
tering machinegun and mortar fire.
Ihey had strong holding in the
southwestern part of Germany.
ninth city, but the enemy still wau
resisting stubbornly.
The Allied-controlled Luxen.
embourg radio said Wiesbaden.
TOUR miles west of Frankfurt near
the confluence Of the Main md
thine rivers, had been seized.
"a Blue Network broadcast from
Paris said Allied fightev pilots
reported Third Army tanks were
menac:ng Nuremberg, nearly 100
miles beyond the point where 1t.
zen. George S. Patton's forces
were officially placed. Nuremberg
was the site of the annual Nazi
party congress)
A powerful armored column ~
the First Army swept another 81
miles northeast from the ANCIENT
city Of Limburg, which was en-.
tered in Mondays sensational
splurge, and was reported with.
in two miles Of Wetzlar, some 20
miles almost due north Of Frank
furt.
Another tank force spilled down
a super military highway South
east from Limburg to within 4
dozen miles of a junction with
Third Army forces fighting in
Frankfurt. Wetzler is Spproxima.
tely 235 airline miles from Berlin.
1t. Gen. Courtney H. Hodges
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