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Drive Almost Through Maginot Eighth Army Pushes * a ▲- __ Through Defenses W on 20-Mile Front to Yanks Hope Reach Forts BULLETINS by the Associated Press Weather Forecast Guide for Readers High near 86 today; pleasant. over week end. P»*e rate Amusements ..B-l* Obituary.A-li Temperatures today—Highest, 84, at Churches ...A-7-S-t Real Eatate—.B-l-3 1 p.m.; lowest. 71, at 6:25 am. Yes- Comics.B-8-9 Radio__B-# Editorials .A-6 terday—Highest, 89, at 3:36 pm.; low- Society.B-5 est, 73, at 6:50 am. Edltor’l Articles. A-7 Sports .B-4 Lost and Pound. A-3 Where to Go.—B-5 An Associated Press Newspaper 92d YEAH. Xo. 36,648. .WASHINGTON, D. C., SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 1944— *★ City Horn* Dsllrary. Dally and 8unday K /''U,VrTfi! 2, TWENTY PAGES. (So a Mo.. Whan S Sundays. 90c ® v^ILiN ID. Germans Report American Tanks Allies Breach 11 Miles From Frontier of Reich; Gothic Line in Northern Italy Drive Almost Through Maginot Eighth Army Pushes * a ▲- __ Through Defenses w On 20-Mile Front to Yanks Hope Reach Forts BULLETINS By the Associated Press. ROME, Sept. 2.—Fifteenth Bulgaria Near ROME, Sept. 2.—British 8th Of Siegfried Line Before Air Force Liberators ham- Army troops have broken the mered rail communications Nazis’ vaunted Gothic Line in Routed Foe and fighters strafed Nazi War on Italy along a 20-mile front, Can Dig In transport jamming the high- Nazis; opening the gates to the Po By thf Associated Press. ways in Yugoslavia today as Valley, Allied headquarters an- the German armies nounced today, and a SUPREME ALLIED apparent- spokesman HEADQUARTERS, Sept. ly began a mass flight out of Reds at declared it was only a matter of 2.—High-speed American columns pounded toward the Balkans. Border time before complete destruction of all German forces in from Verdun while their Five hundred Liberators Italy will Germany today, 1st Army Rioters in Sofia be accomplished. comrades pounded three rail bridges struck within 5 to 8 miles of on The Gothic Line Belgium and two rail yards on lines Call for operation is the a 30-mile Action front west of Sedan. which air headquarters said next to the last phase in the Italian (The Berlin radio declared American armor in were “handling enemy troops Against Germany campaign. The fortifications there and supplies moving up from represent the next to the last pre- the push Verdun has reached the By the Associated Press. beyond Romania, Bulgaria and Greece HIW pared German position of depth and vicinity MOSCOW, Sept. 2.—Bulgaria of 11 through Yugoslavia.” in Thionville, only miles from the German fron- reached a turning point today importance Italy. The retreat evidently was While the British broke tier. This would mean a j as rioters in Sofia clamored for troops dash through most of the the Russian impelled by war against Germany and the through the bristling defenses near old French armies | Maginot Line, and within some 20 miles crossing Romania, Red Army raced along her north- the Adriatic to a depth of 4 miles, threatening to cut off Hitler's of Saar River of the ern border at a rate which in a the American 5th Army crossed the outposts Siegfried Line where Balkan forces. few days should bring it to the Arno River from Florence west to Hitler to may hope establish a homeland defense. spot where Yugoslavia, Romania the sea. LONDON —Berlin radio and The Americans were Bulgaria join. Heavy Fighting Rage*. racing the routed Germans said that American today ine country waited lor the forma i Kent to had 1 Removed 1,500 District Man Reunites French Heavy fighting raged along the the fortifications in an effort to reach them be- troops entered the west- tion of a new government following front as the Germans threw in re- ern part of Brest, the big Brit- the resignation of Premier Ivan Ba- fore the foe has an to inforcements. opportunity man them in tany port, after a heavy at- grianov, who stepped out even while Red Cross Leader and Husband his were Embassy Documents, Part of the spectacular American strength. Thionville is on the west bank of the tack. peace delegates meeting wdth American and British repre- Mme. Emil Wife of advances was accomplished by Moselle sentatives in Cairo. Krug, Champagne King, River, 17 miles above Metz). Official colored troops of the 92d Infantry Russian armor under Gen. Rodion Report Says The Released From Nazi Concentration CamD Division who smashed across the battle for France was in a Allied Planes ■ ending blazing victory, Ships, Y. Malinovsky was probably less Waived for Arno in the face of heavy resistance with promise of swift liberation of the Low Countries where than 150 miles from Northeast Immunity By THOMAS R. HENRY, me. You see I used to head the Star War Correspondent and struck the Yugoslavia, driving across the plains French Red Cross." southeast to the slopes Germans had unleashed flood waters. Hit Positions on Trial in Britain, State NEAR THE BELGIAN BORDER. Jap between the Transylvania Alps and Kept Incommunicado. of the dominating Pisano Hill mass Sept. 2.—Back from a concentration The pace of the advance—^ith official word the Danube, apparently seeking to Reveals Then Mme. Krug told Mr. Skarren behind Pisa which has afforded the lagging' Department camp where she was held as a sus- behind make contact with Marshal Tito's she was not allowed to communicate correspondents’ the pected Jewess. Mme. Emil Krug, enemy excellent observation over the reports—suggested doughboys Chichi Jima Island Yugoslav Partisans and to cut off Bv JOSEPH H. BAIRD. with any one outside the camp for former president of the French Red entire west coast sector. by now were in in the Germans in Bulgaria and two years. She was released wheni likely Belgium, perhaps already Luxem- In the first complete report on Cross and wife Greece. of the millionaire the At the same time American and Radio Declores the and Germans left three days before; troops bourg, probably would be on the Reich’s borders some- Tokyo arrest conviction of Ty- champagne king of France, was re- of Planes Ahead of Tanks. and had come to Paris with other! Japanese ancestry occupied the time this Installations ler G. Kent, clerk in the Ameri- united with her husband by an southwest of the week end. Shelled; Red Army planes kept well ahead internees. She couldn't locate friends. slopws Pisano mass. can Embassy in London, by American Red Cross worker from of the tanks, getting the lay of the Mr. Skarren arranged appropriate A communique said 8th Army to Davao Also Attacked British courts in Washington. Her benefactor was Nearly Belgian Border. land and scattered 1940, the State accommodations for Mme. Krug and' British, Indian. Polish and Cana- strafing groups Charles Skarren of 4476 Reservoir By the Associated Press. fleeing out of Romania. Department today revealed that then drove to Reims with a letter,1 dian troops, sweeping forward from While Lt. Gen. S. Patton’s 3d thundered road N.W., Red Cross representa- George Army Allied and carrier he had taken more than 1,500 where he found Mme. Krug's hus- the Metauro River on warships Soviet units across Bulgaria's! tive with the 9th Division. August 26, eastward from the Verdun the 1st of band in a palatial man- their 15 miles area, Army Lt. Gen. planes hit Chichi Jima in the frontiers were in full view of Bui- documents from the Embassy, five-story fought way through Mr. Skarren left his at the sion, stuffed with Red Cross supplies: difficult country "and have now Courtney H. Hodges reached Charleville and Hirson. Bonin Islands, the Tokyo radio garians in numerous villages which I some of which are believed to jeep swing- curb and found shelter in a Paris for the French Army which he had broken through the enemy's elabo- reported today, in the first sig- spot the southern banks of the have been transmitted to Ger- ing within 5 to 8 miles of on a front of 30 miles. store when the Notre Dame Cathe- collected awaiting deliverance day. rately prepared defenses." Belgium nificant move in the Pacific Danube. Thus was expected to' have many. dral battle started last Saturday. In Reims today I dined with the Virtually paralleling the Americans’ northward British a big psychological effect on a peo- Last Enemy Defense Line. push. theater in several days. Kent's arrest, it was revealed, was leader of the local armored who He was followed inside by a be- French resist- columns jabbed 15 miles northeast of Arras to Douai, 14 The pie traditionally have been pro- "Thus.” the communique added, report, without Allied con- authorized by the American Embas- •wildered, woman who said ance for the past three years. He miles from Russian. The swift march of the elderly "the last Belgium, and raced over Vimy Ridge of World War fame firmation. said the shelled which waived his im- is Marcel Thil, former enemy prepared defense warships Red sy, diplomatic timidly. "I saw the Red Cross on world mid- to within 18 miles of Armentieres and Lille. the island while 100 Army likely played a big part line south of the Po River has been carrier-based munity after agents from Scotland your car. I thought you might help iSee the fall of Bagrianov's govern-' HENRY, Page A^3 breached.” Capture of Abbeville, near the Somme's was not planes carried out a bombing at- Yard had evidence successfully mouth, yet ment. presented impli- tack Iwo Jima also was A from the front claimed, but British and Canadian troops linked up between that i Friday.
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