October 1, 1944; Prospect For Early Peace Fades:

THIS WAS REPORTED TODAY, OCTOBER 1, 1944:

Prospects for Early

Peace Fade as Army

Girds for New Drive

By JAMES M. LONG

SUPREME HEADQUARTERS.

ALLIED E X P E D I T I O N A R Y FORCE. Sept. 30.—(AP)

Allied fighting men, grimmer and sobered by the heroic tragedy of Arnhem, are moving into position on the western front to drive into Germany the hard way; head-on.

. Unshakably confident that they can do the job, they nevertheless are aware that hard fighting lies ahead in this f i f t h phase of the invasion. Victory s t i l l is possible in 1944, but now it quite" likely may require fighting well into the Spring of 1945. Prime Minister Churchill set the tone for a general change of opinion when he told the House of Commons Thursday that "no one— certainly not I— can guarantee that several months of 1945 may not be required."

NAZIS OUTNUMBERED

At bay stand bitterly-resting elements of a German Army which was close to world conquest three years ago. The Germans have dug into their tightest and last defense system, but despite the shortened front appear to be outnumbered perhaps as heavily as five-to-one by half-dozen Allied armies massed against them in the west — a fighting force estimated by Churchill at from 2.000.000 to 3,000,000 men.

Snow Fails to Slow Advance;

Nazis Lose 113 Tanks and 33

Planes in 2 Days in Assault

By ROBERT EUNSON

SUPREME HEADQUARTERS ALLIED EXPEDITIONARY

FORCE, Sept. 30.—(/P)—

The U.S. Seventh Army, fighting through snow sweeping out of the Vosges Mountains, wheeled up to two foothill passes today and were only nine

miles northwest of the gateway city of Belfort to challenge the Germans along the chain of peaks blocking the southern route to the Rhineland.

To the north, the U.S. First Army opened up with an attack on a 60-mile front, carved out limited gains, and smashed through eight fortifications of the Siegfried Line, near its Western fortress of Prum.

Between these sectors the U.S. Third Army wiped out the equivalent of a German armored division in two days—113 tanks. 31 of which fell to gunners and fighter bombers in the last 2-1 hours in a battle lying around the American salient east of Met?, and Nancy.

33 PLANES DOWNED

The British on the Dutch end of the long front beat back German counterblows from east and west at their Nijmcgen Bridge positions.

The enemy tossed 300 fighters and fighter bombers into the struggle-----

Japan Knows

It's Beaten,

Says Forrestal

Secy, of Novy Here;

Nips,Hope U.S. Will

Ease Up, He Warns

Alternately optimistic and pessimistic, Secretary of the Navy James Forrestal, on a surprise visit In HIP Bay area yesterday. ainnounced the Japanese "know that they arc thoroughly beaten," but they hope that the United States will be bored

with war while the Germans quit and will ease up in the Pacific.

His purpose for coining to San Francisco, where he held n press conference at headquarters of the 12^th Naval district was to make a study and prepare for the logistics that will inevitable  will accompany the all-out drive in the Pacific.

Nazis Invite

Ruin on Land

Arnhem Tragedy

Sobers Allies

Prospects for Early

Peace Fade as Army

Girds for New Drive

By JAMES M. LONG

SUPREME HEADQUARTERS.

ALLIED E X P E D I T I O N A R Y FORCE. Sept. 30.—(AP)

Allied fighting men, grimmer and sobered by the heroic tragedy of Arnhem, are moving into position on the western front to drive into Germany the hard way; head-on.

. Unshakably confident that they can do the job, they nevertheless are aware that hard fighting lies ahead in this f i f t h phase of the invasion. Victory s t i l l is possible in 1944, but now it quite" likely may require fighting well into the Spring of 1945. Prime Minister Churchill set the tone for a general change of opinion when he told the House of Commons Thursday that "no one— certainly not I— can guarantee that several months of 1945 may not be required."

NAZIS OUTNUMBERED

At bay stand bitterly-resting elements of a German Army which was close to world conquest three years ago. The Germans have dug into their tightest and last defense system, but despite the shortened front appear to be outnumbered perhaps as heavily as five-to-one by half-dozen Allied armies massed against them in the west — a fighting force estimated by Churchill at from 2.000.000 to 3,000,000 men.