Nazis Stiffen at Border
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New York—London let On Parle Frangais Paris—Rennes Vous avez des yeux cliarmants. Monday, Sept. 11, 1944 THE Voo zavay day zyuh sharmon. Vol. 1, No. 59 You have charming eyes. Daily Newspaper of 0.$. Armed Forces C^sSvin the European Theater of Operations. Nazis Stiffen at Border Bowed Heads Bespeak the Eloquent Silence of the Vanquished Firm Stand Being Made In 3 Sectors Patton's Men Reported In Major Battle; First Shells Hit Reich German resistance stiff- ened yesterday along the_ entire battle line near the Reich border and while a news blackout hid develop- ments in a major battle being fought by the U.S. Third Army along the Moselle River, the first Allied shells landed in western Germany. Striking the initial artillery Mow against Germany were cannoneers of Lt. Gen. Courtney Hodges' First U.S. Army. The shells landed at Bildchen, a little less than a mile across the Reich's frontier from Some of them smile, some stare arrogantly, others simply bow their Belgium, after the First Army s heads because they can think of nothing else to do. These German advance to the area of V .lburg Russians Enter prisoners, brought in by an artillery captain, Phillip Hawks, of Bel- had brought it to within ten miles mont, Mass., near Brest, apparently are of the head-bowing variety. Premier, Aides of the border at Aachen. Corres -Hents reported that tne East Prussia Reach Quebec Germans were making de efforts to slow down or rip1?-- the Piecemeal Collapse of Reich Allie-'. 'vance if they could riot Big Drive Takes Shape Churchill and His Party stop it altogether. The three main As Patrols Cross Line; are:s where the Germans were Foreseen by Allied Leaders Arrive for 2nd Parley making a determined star^ were Reds Gain in South around the Albert Canal in Belgium, There With FDR along thj Luxemburg frontier and in the Ardenr.es, a. g the Moselle. MOSCOW, Sept. 10. Red WASHINGTON, Sept. 10 (A.P.).—Allied leaders now QUEBEC, Sept. 10.—Prime Min- Army patrols tonight were operat- consider it probable that Germany will fall apart piecemeal, ister Churchill and his party ol Battling in Ghent ' ing for the first time on the soil of army by army, rather than surrender en masse. British advisers arrived in this his- A report from SHAEF said the East Prussia, while immediately toric Canadian city today for the Germans had moved troops from behind them one of two giant Armistice terms, however, have been fully agreed on by second "Quebec conference' of Denmark to oppose the British Sec- assaults on the V'ehrmacht took Russia, the U.S. and Britain and are ready for use in sithei World War II with . President ond Army, which was meeting in- shape. case. Starting with unconditional Roosevelt. creasing opposition between Ghent - Dispatches from the front said surrender, they provide in effect Although there was no indica- and Antwerp, with fighting in , that the most moden. of German de- that defeated Germany must in- tion as to when the talks would Ghent itself. fenses, comprising the belt before Allies Rule Air come a prisoner nation for cr in- start, observers agreed that it would Meanwhile, Lt. Gen. George S. East Prussia, had been smashed definite period of strict military concern not only the closing phases Patton's Third U.S. Army was re- and that powerful Russian forces occupation. of the war against Germany, but ported to have captured its first were massing for an all-out of- In Philippines Fate of the country after that also the years of post-war settle- Maginot Line fort in a three-day fensive against the homeland of period—there has been consider- ment in Europe and team-work to bayonet and grenade encounter at the Prussian Junkers. Heavy fight- Allied Southeast Pacific air forces ation o* placing it on trial for be achieved by Russia, Britain and Fort de Ville-le-Sec, east of the Mo- ing was reported in an area where now dominate the southern Philip- several years—its relation to the the U.S. selle. Observers said that its cap- the Soviet troops forced an un- pines, Gen. Douglas MacArthur's rest of Europe and its place in an The two leaders are expected to ture opened the road to Nancy, named river, probably the Narew communique said yesterday, point- organized world may provide one deal primarily with: (1) the prob- secured a bridgehead across the which lies northeast of Warsaw. ing out that the Japanese failed to of the principal topics for President lems of joint occupation and polic- river and gave Americans command- Six hundred miles to the south. offer aerial resistance to Liberators Roosevelt and Prime Minister C liur- ing of Germany by Britain, Russia ing positions along a wide stretch Gen. Malinowsky's army group, and Mitchells, escorted by long- chill in their irr unent conf .ence. and the U.S.; (2) the Polish border I of the -Moselle. There were no ad- taking the mountain road to Buda- range fighters, which bombed Davao The problem is complicated by issue and the destiny of Minorities ditional details of the major battle pest was reported to be approach- airdromes last week. the fact that if Germany is defeated and small nations generally; (3) the | being fought in the area. ing Hungarian-occupied Transyl The Davao area has been attacked piecemeal it will wind up in a role of France, which has asserted I American bombers from both jfft yania. 17 times in less than a month. state of political chaos out of which her claim to the right to join with ! French and British bases opened (Gen.-an reports previously have The Southeast Asia Command the Allies will have to build a new the major powers in mapping plans their first round of the "battle of jaid that Russian columns already communique said "troops of the governmental structure virtually for post-war Europe; (4) the con- the German frontier" by bom Ding had driven into that part of Tran- Fifth Indian Division gained more from the ground up centration of Allied forces against immediately ahead of Patton's sylvania occupied by Hungary. ground on the Tiddam Road in Some authorities here wouldn't be Japan after Germany is beaten and southern wing to remove barriers Ankara Radio, quoting Hung Burma.'" (Continued on Page 8) measures to be taken for the future (Continued on Page 8) reports, said that Cluj, capital of control of Japan. Transylvania, had been captured Marshal Stalin will not attend, by the Russians, duj is less n since Russia is not at war with 300 miles from Budapest). Oft-Bombed Renault Works Japan, but both the Russian and Two Columns Meanwhile, Russian ad- Chinese governments will be kept vance from Rumania toward a link- informed of the conversations. up with Marshal Tito's Jugoslav Bare Effects of U.S. Air Blows Churchill was accompanied by Near Belfort Partisans continued. Col. Ernst the British chiefs of staff, Lord von Hammer, German news agency By Peter Lisagor owned the largest motor plant in Two Allied columns, one Amer- Stars and Stripes Staft Writer. Europe, turning out over 1,000 mo- Leathers, minister of war transport, commentator, said that Soviet para- and Lord Cherwell, scientific ad- ican and the other French, were The Eighth Air Force came back tor transports a month, as well as troops had been landed in the vici- viser. converging on Belfort yesterday nity of the Iron Gate of the to the Renault Works in Paris yes- training aircraft, air and marine whale German rearguards stiffened iDanube in Jugoslav territory. terday on a friendly mission, to engines, guns and tanks—a key fac- their holding efforts to give the inspect one of its juiciest targets in tor in the German industrial sys- Stillwell Flying to U.S. battered remnants of the German No Money 'Deals' Here, France in two years of strategic tem. 19th Army an opportuniy to flee bombing. And the Renault people On April 4, 1943, 85 heavy bom- To Attend Conferences through the escape gap between '* Army Warns Soldiers produced documented evidence of bers of the old First Wing com- the Swiss Alps and the Vosges how great a monkey wrench was manded by Col. Curtis E. Lemay CHUNGKING, Sept. 10.—Gen. Heights into Germany. All military personnel were warned thrown into Nazi war production and led by Capt. Allen V. Martini, Joseph L. Stillwell is flying to the The Americans, advancing on the by the ETO fiscal director yester- by Allied air raids, evidence more of San Francisco, and his "Cocktail U.S. to attend a conference on left from Besancon, were 24 miles day against placing dollars or Eng- eloquent than the pictures of smok- Kids," went out under ideal condi- Allied plans for the offensive from Belfort, while French troops lish pounds in the hands of French ing wreckage carried back oy the tions, unescorted The planes fought against Japan, it was announced on the right flank were within 16 civilians. raiders. their way in. dropped their bombs today. • Before leaving, Stillwell miles of the city on a secondary Lt. Col. M. P. Patteson, of Rich- It was at Billancourt, a few and fought their way home again. said the Allies would "make short road. mond, Va., finance administrative miles outside Paris, whe.. the Re- Renault had been knocked out by work of the Japanese, however Substantial German forces were officer, said all conversions into nault plant spreads over £00 acres 222 RAF night bombers in March, strong their positions might be, still trying to reach the Reich w"' francs must be made with finance of an island washed by the Seme, 1942, and had been rebuilt within once the combined strength of the frontier at the Rhine before the officers, and that U.S.