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New York—London Id On Parle Frangais Paris-—Rennes N'oubliez pas de m'ecrire Saturd- r, Sept. 23, 1944 TRIPES Nooblee-ay pah duh mayKREER mm Please be sure to write Vol L No. 70 Dally Newspaper of U.$. Armed Forces the European Theater of Operations Skyborne Army Rescued Ike Praises Come On Out, Bud, But Not to Play Push Lifts Truckmen Nazi Siege Of Red Ball In Holland Twenty-five thousand British armor and American American soldier-truckers paratroops drove north in ^and auxiliaries riding the' Holland from liberated Nij- Army's famed Red Ball High-1 megen yesterday to relieve a way—400-mile supply lifeline force of airborne units which from the ports to the combat had been cut off at Arnhem, areas—were told yesterday while to the southeast, the in a congratulatory message greatest tank battle of the from Gen. Eisenhower that campaign in Western Europe they were shaping the war's destiny raged in the Moselle Valley. as greatly as any combat troops. Before the junction of the two Later, the Communications Zone forces in Holland, the position of chiefs who planned and who control the beleaguered skyborne army at the Highway revealed some of its Arnhem had been described as cri- secrets at a Paris press conference, tical, but not hopeless. To effect and a 12th Army Group staff officer the junction, elements of the said that upon it depended how British Second Army and American soon came a mass thrust into Ger- paratroops thrust eight miles north many. of Nijmegen, where earlier the com- bined force had seized a great bridge Hughes Speaks for Gen. Ike over the Rhine (the biggest of two Eisenhower's tribute to the supply branches of the lower Rhine and men was paid on his behalf early called the Waal by the Dutch). yesterday morning by Maj. Gen. E. S Hughes, who drove outside Paris Nazis Battle Fanatically to meet a line of trucks driven The rescue was effected only after by Negro troops of a truck com- one of the stiffest battles of the pany. war, according to front-line dis- In a field by the roadside, he patches which emphasized the stem decorated Cpl. Robert P. Bradley, resistance being put up by the Ger- mans, well aware that a continued Allied drive in this sector meant an No Tape in Red Ball, Framed in a window of a shell-scarred house at Illy, France, a Nazi officer surrenders to a Yank armed outflanking of the Siegfried Line with an automatic rifle. The smoke of battle still hangs over the town, liberated by American troops in from the north and a development Congressmen Learn their drive to the Belgian border. of the threat acrjss the Rhine, al- ready crossed at Nijmegen. The Red Ball Express waits After the loss of 130 tanks in five for nobody, as 10 junketing Germans Shell Own Towns days, the Germans yesterday flung congressmen discovered yester- Field Uniform against Lt. Gen. George S. Patton's day. Driving from an airfield Third Army forces virtually their hear Paris to Gen. Eisenhower's In Futile Effort to Halt Yanks Is Paris Style, last remaining armor in the Moselle headquarters, the congressmen Valley in a desperate bid to hold were delayed when they had to the approaches to the Siegfried stop, while a Red Ball convoy By G. K. Hodenfield New CO Rules Line. roared by en route to the front. In Germany itself, Lt. Gen. Court- Stars and Stripes Statl Writer. The prescribed uniform for sol- ney Hodge's First Army, moving to of Lynchburg, Va., with the Bronze ON THE SIEGFRIED LINE, Sept. 22.—M/Sgt. Jack diers in Paris was outlined last widen the gap blasted in the Reich's Star Medal for meritorious service. Harvey, of Ravenna, N.Y., was about four blocks away when night by Brig. Gen. Allen R. Kim- vaunted frontier defenses, en- None of the men was aware of what the shell from a German artillery battalion landed at an ball, whose appointment as head- countered continued fierce re- was to occur when the convoy was intersection of a tiny village about halfway through the quarters commandant of ETO and sistance in the Hurtgen forest. waved to a halt and they were Communications Zone Headquar- Meanwhile, an American broadcast asked to assemble near by. Siegfried Line defenses. Four German civilians were killed, ters was announced yesterday. (Continued on Page 4) two were injured and two homes Hughes told the surprised truck- Until further notice the proper ers that he would have liked to were completely wrecked. The total uniform for both officers and men damage to the Allied war effort was give all of them a medal. "Bradley will consist of helmet liner, OD two slightly-wounded American sol- Germans Told was chosen as a representative of Japs on Edge trousers, OD shirt, field jacket and the whole Red Ball Highway, in- diers. leggings or their equivalent. cluding the men who repair the This shell answered a big question In Philippines for Harvey. He hadn't believed that A graduate of West Point, Kim- To Revolt Now roads and bridges, put up the tele- ball began his military career as phone wires and do all the service the Germans really would shell their The Japanese proclaimed martial an Infantryman and later trans- An unidentified German radio work in the rear," be said. own cities and villages. He. knows law in the Philippines yesterday it now, and although now it's their ferred to the Quartermaster Corps. station, believed to be near the "Gen. Eisenhower realizes that Prior to his new appointment, he I French border, was heard Thursday you men seldom get the same recog- "in view of the danger of invasion own countrymen the Germans are being imminent," as Adm. Chester was ETO deputy chief quarter- i night and early yesterday appealing nition as soldiers in the front line killing, he hates the Jerry just a W. Nimitz announced carrier-based master, with headquarters in the , to the German people for revolt „and wants you to know that the part little bit more. That's saying quite planes Wednesday launched their a bit for a man who's seen action United Kingdom. against the government. "you're playing is vital. His message In his new post, the general is A '.'high officer" broadcast that is for every man engaged on this heaviest raid against the Manila in Africa, Sicily and Italy and in Harbor area. responsible for the billeting, mess- the Nazi government had ordered vast project; the troops at the front France, Belgium and Germany. Eleven Jap ships were sunk and After two years of it, Harvey Is ing and discipline of the several [ the Wehrmacht to force back ci- couldn't do without you." 26 damaged, and 205 enemy planes thousand officers and men assigned i vilians evacuating regions tnreaten- At the press conference, Maj. Gen. beginning to understand the Ger- were destroyed in the air and on to the headquarters, which was I ed by the Allied advance. He said Frank E. Ross, chief of transporta- man soldier. But he admits he can't the ground, Nimitz revealed. Tokyo make heads or tails of the German transferred to Paris as soon as ; that such an order, if carried out, tion, CZ, said Red Ball Highway- said 5* . U.S. planes participated hostilities in the capital ceased. I would cause civil war and that al- four times as long as the Burma civilians he has met thus far. They in the attack, which hit Clark Field, don't fit into any pattern. Thus far, 169 hotels have been ready he had shot and killed the (Continued on Page 4) Mitchell Field and Cavite naval "Some of them," Harvey said, taken over as billets for personnel officer who had issued such an base, as well as Manila Harbor. "smile and wave when we go by and more than 20 mess halls have order to troops in his area. A Tokyo broadcast picked up in and others just scowl at us. I can been established, many of them Borrowed Flak Suits New York last night reported that understand either emotion, but what with French staffs. Hear Gtrmans Waver 200 U.S. planes had made another I can't understand is that entire BRUSSELS, Sept. 22. — Reports Shielded Engineers attack on Manila yesterday. villages will be divided. They'll be Greek Troops 200 Yds. reaching here from Germ'any today smiling from one house and scowl- indicated that the German people Flak suits borrowed from the ing from the next. From Po Valley Gateway were increasingly in favor of capitu- Air Forces were used on D-Day 2-Way Blow by Heavies "A lot of them are scared because lation and that some quarters were to protect engineer bulldozer they've been told we will shoot them Greek troops of the Eighth Army urging unconditional surrender as operators on the beaches of Rips Targets in Reich when we capture a town, and they fought to within 200 yards of the an act of true patriotism. Normandy, Maj. Gen. C. R. aren't quite certain just what they edge of Rimini, gateway to the Po Moore, ETO chief engineer, has Strong forces of British-based should do. Others will run up to Valley, yesterday while ram slowed Danish Strike Ends Fortresses and Liberators, escorted disclosed. give us information, which most of the Fifth Army offensive after the STOCKHOLM, Sept. 22. — The The suits afforded a measure by Mustangs, attacked industrial the time is accurate.