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New York—London lei On Parle Francais Paris—Rennes Je suis un general Wednesday, Sept. 13, 1944 THE SIMLA TRIPES Juh sweezun jaynayRAHL Vol. 1. No. Gl I am a general Daily Newspaper of U.S. Armed Forces y ^5*£V* in the European Theater of Operations Invade Reich at 2nd Point How the Yanks Crossed Their Last Frontier Berlin SaysYanks By Henry C. Gorrell bleak barracks building which only a few United Press Correspondent. hours before housed German troops. WITH FIRST U.S. ARMY ARMORED I entered Eupen with U.S. armored spear- FORCES, Germany, Sept. 12. — The forward heads, and there is still fighting on the Aim for Cologne; elements of our armor crossed the German mam square there. There were very few frontier from 6 to 11 PM last night, and flags out. There was no cheering and lie this morning the initial penetration of Ger- baby kissing, and those who did give tho 'many is in strength. It falls on the 26th V-sign did so with hesitation and obvious Le Havre Ta anniversary of the great American St. timidity, as though fearful of being de- Mihiel offensive in 1918. nounced by their Nazi neighbors. The penetration was accomplished by a In this town, within the revised 1940 Ger- The First U.S. Army made its second crossing of the U.S. armored division which swept across man frontier, the population is half Ger- Reich's frontier yesterday at a point about ten miles south- Belgium in a swift 10-day march and man, hall Belgian. We are no longer con- east of Aachen as German reports said the Allies were which has now crossed the last frontier of quering heroes. In fact, I saw a German striving to break through into the Ruhr in the direction of the campaign. woman break into tears when she noticed Cologne and Dusseldorf. Our tanks sprang forward this morning three German prisoners riding with trie Meantime, other elements of the First Army which had in a series of strong exploratory thrusts column in the trailer of a jeep just ahead made the initial Allied invasion of western Germany less, which, like all our blows all the way from of me. than 36 hours before were battling Wehrmacht troops near the Seine, was audacious and skillfully or- And in the town square, until German the Siegfried line five miles across the border, and First ganized. shells began bursting around our tanks and Canadian Army troops accepted the surrender of the Ger- Orders for this historic crossing into the the crowd scattered to duck inside doorway?, man garrison at Le Havre, key port which lies at the mouth of the enemy country were issued from a bare, (Continued on Page 4) Seine River and controls seaway Siegfried Line communications with the Paris re- gion. There was no indication as to the Bombs Forced ArmyPickingUp,Returning Hit; Luftwaffe strength of the force which made the second entry into Germany, six Bearing Works Belted Again miles east of Eupen, Belgium, nor Gls Stranded ^Lost in Paris the depth of its penetration. Front- line reports said the troops did not Underground Medi a in sPouud Ground encounter any definite German line Confronted with the problem of thousands of lost or as they crossed the border, although AWOL soldiers wandering around the streets of Paris, Maj. Defenses; Heavies Stir there was some scattered resistance. 8th AF Officials See Paul Hitler, deputy provost marshal for the Paris area, Another Big Battle Tell of Big U.S, Drive Damage Inflicted and announced yesterday a "pickup and delivery service'' for The Berlin correspondent of the Nazi-controlled Scandinavian Tele- — ( GI stragglers. Opening the battle for the Sieg- New Plants graph Bureau reported that First Starting today, any officers or fried Line, Marauders and Havocs Army units, "greatly reinforced By Peter Lis: _ ->r enlisted men who become separated yesterday dropped their first ex- plosives on Germany, battering with tanks and heavy artillery, have Stars and Stripes Stafl Writer. from their units or vehicles in the begun a general offensive along the frontier defenses, whi'e U.S. heavy TAVERNY, Vance, Sept. 12 — French capital may get free food, entire front between Aachen and Haw the Nazis ho^ed to escape By Sea and Air bombers flew through screens of lodging and transportation back to Metz. Attacks are said to be cen- bomb devastation and save a part enemy intercepters for the second tered before Aachen and the Allies of their ball-bearing supply in Eighty-nine Japanese vessels were their outfits by reporting to Provost straight day to blast strategic tar- gets in the Reich. are aiming to break through the France by going u~der round was sunk or probably sunk and 68 enemy Marshal headquarters, 131 Avenue Ruhr in the direction of Cologne revealed here today to Ei?' th Air planes wrecked Friday in the first de Wagram, Paris. While the medium and light and Dusseldorf." bombers plastered pillboxes and Force officials and correspondents big naval and air attack against In two weeks here the Provost On the Moselle River front, Third surveying at first hand the damage Mindanao in the Philippines, it was Marshal section has cared for concrete emplacement* standing U.S. Army units were reported to inflicted upon German indu-trial announced at Pearl Harbor yester- hundreds of soldiers lost in Paris. between Germany and advancing American troops. Ninth fighter- have established new bridgeheads targets by Allied air attacks day. Some were picked up by MPs, but south of Nancy. American attacks In an enormous grotto hev.n of The attack was made by carrier- most turned themselves In voluntar- bombers saturated supply and com- in the vicinity of Metz and Thion- rock here, 15 miles northwest of based aircraft, cruisers and destroy- ily. munication lines over which the ville were reported, although there Paris, the Germans had * 800 ers under Adin. William F. Halsey. "They usually wander around enemy must reinforce his border fortresses. were rjo signs of weakening German machines from the Paris branch cf Most of the Jap pianes were des- town for a day or so until they run resistance. All the American bridge- the SKF ball-bearing works of troyed on the ground. Only eight out of money and get hungry," Sgt. Fierce Air Battles heads over the Moselle were being Sweden, installed electric power and interceptors came up, and all were Donald A. Everitt, of Klamath Falls, Fierce aerial duels between the shelled by the Germans and all the begun operations w;'" 250 woi'.:ers shot down. Thirty-two of the ships Ore., said. "Then thev come to us Luftwaffe and fighters escorting crossings were being made in the when they were force-" to flee. were in a coastal cargo convoy. to get K-rations and transportation nearly 1,000 British-based Fortresses face of heavy fire. Orvar Gustaffson, manager of In Washington, the Navy Depart- back to their outfits." and Liberators to eastern and cen- More German counter-attacks two SKF plants on the outskirts of ment announced that the Palau Men who come to the Provost tral Germany raged again yester- were made against / lan Third Paris, said the Germans planned to Islands were attacked Sunday and Marshal asking to get back to their day over the Reich. Boosting the Army positions east of the Moselle, use other grottos in France for their Monday by planes and shelled by outfits are booked on a technical toll taken by U.S. fighters since including a determined thrust in industry. battleships and cruisers. charge of being separated from Sept. 1 to 550 enemy craft de- the Toul sector, but all were broken The cave is a fantastic labyrinth, In China. Chinese forces liberated their units. Everitt estimated that stroyed, the Eighth Air Force pur- after bitter fighting. One portion formerly a quarry. The Germans Sungshan. "Gibraltar of the Burma about half were just plain lost, the suits bagged 76 planes—50 in the of a bridge was df troyed by Ger- also used it to store airph .ie en- Road." after a three-month siege, rest probably AWOL. He urged air and 26 on the ground. man shells, but was restored by " S. gines. From one end to the other and Allied bombers hit the Jap-held men stranded to contact MPs im- Seventeen U.S. fighters were lost, engineers under fire. Neufchateau it runs 3 1/2 miles and covers 250- harbor of Amoy and airfields around mediately, as Paris is off limits to but some of them were believed to last night was reporter-" in ^erman 000 square feet. The machines— Canton in south China. troops not on official business. have landed in friendly territory. (Continued cn Page 4) delicate lathes—looked in good con- There wr.s no immediate announce- dition under lamplight—the po^ar ment of bomber Josses or the system has been sto ed. number of kills scored by the The decision to go underground Mighty Fortress Eben Emael heavies. French Seize was reached after the second Eighth Joining in the aerial offensive Air Force raid on SKF's two plants against the enemy homeland, up to at Bois Colombes and Ivry, which Falls to Yanks Without a Shot 500 Italian-based U.S. heav*-- raid- 18,000 Nazis before the war employed 2,000 work- ed objectives in southern Germany, ers and produced 25,000 bearings a By G. K. HodenfieM are. That is the best the Allies have and British bombers followed up LONDON, Sept. 12.—Gen. Koe- day.