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New York—London Paris—Rennee ■ lei On Parle Francois Wednesday, Sept. 20, 1944 THE La France est un beau pays. Vol. 1. No. 67 La fronses ay tan bo paYEE. France is a beautiful country. Daily Newspaper of U.S. Armed Forces ^siCS* in the European Theater of Operations British 5 Mi. From Reich German Guns Pound a Road Outside Brest Advance 50 Miles In Holland;Yanks Seize Nazi Town British Second Army tanks and infantry last night were five miles from the German border and were approaching the vast northern German plain leading toward Berlin after a 50-mile advance across Holland in 48 hours. First Army troops made another crossing into Germany from northern Belgium, while Third Army troops turned back a bayonet counter-attack a few miles southeast of Nancy. The Germans reported their garrison had abandoned the Brittany peninsula city of Brest, but there was no Allied confirmation.. Airborne Army Germany Invaded In New Landings At Another Point Infantryman seeks refuge as German artillery blasts a road outside Brest, For the third straight day, Allied First U.S. Army troops captured which the Nazis last night admitted abandoning. airborne units landed in Holland Sittard, about 20 miles northwest Copenhagen yesterday, helping in a great Brit- of Aachen, after effecting another- ish Second Army drive which in crossing of the German border yes- less than 48 hours advanced more terday from northern Belgium as In Open Revolt Nazis Say Garrison Has Quit than 50 miles almost to the banks American Third Army elements of the Rhine. routed a desperate bayonet counter- Pushing five miles north of attack a few miles southeast of li- Against Nazis Brest for Adjacent Peninsula liberated Eindhoven, one of the berated Nancy. most important communications About 20 miles northeast of the Open rebellion against German The surviving German garrison at Brest has retired centers in Holland, British spear- city of Luxemburg, U.S. infantry- rule broke out yesterday in Copen- heads stood athwart the Wilhelm- men retook an important Moselle south from the city to the Crozon Peninsula across the ina Canal. hagen and fighting raged in other River bridge which had been cap- harbor, German radio said last night. At the same time, another Second tured by a strong Nazi patrol infil- Danish cities after the Nazis dis- Gen. Hermann Ramcke, commander of the German Army force took Gelderof, four miles tration behind American armor. solved the nation's police force as garrison, led the remnants of his force from the smoulder- east of Eindhoven, after stiff fight- The bridge was near the base of part of their anti-invasion prepa- ing, while armored columns fought U.S. spearheads which have cracked ing ruins of the ancient French to within two miles of Nijmegen, on the first wall of the Siegfried Line rations, according to reports reach- port to the peninsula under cover the banks of the Waal River, one in this sector. ing Stockholm. of night, the German report said. of the lower stretches of the Rhine. Patton Building Up A general strike was slated to U.S. infantry and artillery have Finland, Soviet On the Nijmegen front the British begin today in Copenhagen, where been hammering at the city for were only five miles from the- Ger- Advanced Third Army units made bodies were said to be littering the four weeks and four days, and, ac- Sign Armistice man frontier. additional gains beyond Mazerulle, streets, and all ferry and air con- cording to both German and Amer- The Germans were fighting des- 20 miles east of Nancy. Lt. Gen. ican sources, the city has been re- nections with Sweden have been perately to stem the British of- George S. Patton was reported to duced to rubble. Finland and Russia have signed broken. fensive, made possible by the Brit- be rapidly strengthening his forces A Stars and Stripes reporter with an armistice, the Soviet Informa- in this area. tion Bureau announced officially in ish and American airborne soldiers A struggle between Germans try- the attacking force said the initial who seized bridges and road junc- Meanwhile, another major cross- ing to storm the castle of Ama- jump-off into the outskirts of the Moscow last night. British and tions. ing of the Moselle River was made lienborg, where the Danish royaL city was slow work, infantrymen Russian representatives acted in tne north of Epinal by tanks and in- family resides, and Danish police having to battle from strongpoint j negotiations on behalf of all fantry which advanced 15 miles tne was still going* on yesterday after- to strongpoint. The bitter hedge- ' United Nations at war with Rail Yards in Germany northeast of Charmes. Epinal is 40 noon, Nazi-controlled Danish radio row-type warfare continued for two Finland. miles south of Nancy. reported. weeks. I Although neither the Finns nor Bombed by Fortresses Heavy fighting still was going on Dispatches to Stockholm said the The German defenses, originally the Russians revealed terms of the near Metz with one American force Germans occupied all public build- planned to protect the submarine | armistice, reports from Stockholm Supported by up to 750 Amer- slowly driving up from the south. ings, including those housing the base from the sea, were turned to ' said they were more severe than ican fighters, which also dive- Another was reported battling for Danish Parliament, after staging a defend it from land and the heavy , the Finns had anticipated. They bombed and strafed enemy ack- heights northwest of the city. fake air-raid alarm all over the flak batteries which had been used were said to include Russian con- ack batteries in Holland, Flying Across the river to the west, the country. Aided by civilians, police hundreds of times against raiding trol of Finnish railways, roads, Fortresses yesterday bombed Ger- Germans were putting up stiff re- resisted Nazi troops sent to disarm Allied bombers were leveled against \ waterways and airfields in south- man railyards at Hamm and Soest, sistance. The Nazis also were them. the attacking ground force. ern Finland until the war's end. north and east of the Rhine. clinging to a small section on the In the last week there has been : east bank of the Moselle at Thion- house-to-house fighting in Brest, ville. White Flag, Then and U.S. troops learned it was safer to blast through the walls of Army Blocking France Junket, In the Sixth Army group sector the houses than chance the streets. on the southern flank, the Germans Shots, So Yanks were heavily defending the ap- 8 Congressmen Tell Gen. 'Ike' proaches to Belfort as Allied troops Fire Nazi Village Say Hitler Promised advanced more than five miles 6 eastward from Saint-Loup-sur-Se- American troops have burned New V Weapon Soon LONDON, Sept. 19.—Eight U.S. resented any intimation they were mouse to enter the town of Fou- down the German town of Wal- congressmen, critical of what they on a junket joyride or a sight- gerolles. lendorf, northeast of Trier, because termed the Army's stalling tactics, seeing tour. They emphasized The Canadian First Army artil- NANC :, Sept. 19 (A.P.).—Ger- they had no intention of talking villagers hung out surrender flags man prisoners have reported that have appealed directly to Gen. lery continued to pound the re- and then sniped at the invading Eisenhower for permission to visit politics, and some were concerned Hitler five days ago promised that about returning home soon for the (Continued on Page 4) units, American radio in Europe an a new secret "V" weapon would France.. If refused, they say they make its appearance within 10 days. will ask why visiting labor leaders last weeks of the campaign. nounced. "We understand the Army want- The broadcast said that when the He made the promise when de- have been given preferred treat- ment. ed the labor men to see the battle- 3 U.S. Correspondents troops reached the vUlage limits manding that the garrison hold out for a minimum of 10 days. The congressmen went into a fields so they could go home and Captured; One Freed they saw the white surrender flags huddle to plan their strategy for tell workers of the need for con- on every building and Allied flags getting quick action after some of tinued production," said one law- displayed prominently. We Have No Mats, them were informed that the trip maker. "We think the House will U.S. THIRD ARMY HQ., France, "The American soldiers entered upon which they had been county be just as good a place to tell Sept. 19—Three American war cor- the town, but suddenly shots were You Have No Abner ing for getting a first-hand view the country of that need as any respondents attached to the Third fired and several soldiers fell," the of the American war effort in the other place." Army were captured by the Ger- announcement said. We admit that no newspaper field had been called off, at least Congressmen in England now in- mans near Chaumont, it was dis- (The London Evening News re- is much good without Li'l Abner, for the moment. clude Reps. Harris Ellsworth (R.- closed today. One of them, Ed- ported that 24 American soldiers, but you'll have to read the rest Several expressed resentment Ore.); Walter H. Judd (R.-Minn.); ward Beattie, of the United Press, including Tour medical corps men, of the paper for a few days. that they should be blocked from Karl E. Mundt (R.-S.D); John is reported to have been taken to were killed.) The comic mats, like cigarettes, going to France only a few weeks Phillips (R.-Cal.); W.

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