September 14, 1944; GERMANS FLEEING RHINE:

THIS WAS REPORTED TODAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 1944:

Road to Berlin

By The Associated Press,

Russian Front: 312 miles(from outsitlc Pnhltsk).

Western Front: 319 miles(from cast of Kupen),

Eastern France: 440 miles(from below Montbollard).

Italian Front: 583 miles(from below Rimini).

ABILENE, TEXAS, THURSDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 14, 1944 -TWELVE PAGES

Resistance Light in

Advance to Aachen

SUPREME HEADQUARTERS ALLIED EXPEDITIONARY

FORCE, Thursday, Sept. 14—(AP)—

American troops rolling through surprisingly light resistance Wednesday drive into the outskirts of the important German border city of Aachen, one of the northern keystones of the Siegfried line, and struck close to the core of the Nazis' vaunted Westwall

on at least three other sectors along a 90-mile front.

The Americans captured the border village of Hotgea, 10 miles southeast of Aachen, the first German: community to he reported taken in the all-out assault on Hitler's reich and stood 325 airline miles from Berlin in their march on the Nazi capital.

As the American armored columns encountered only minor opposition in the Siegfried line' outposts, indications were that the Germans were falling back toward the Rhine, 40 miles in the east in this sector. The Yanks won positions in the town forest of Aachen and in outskirts overlooking the city, a rail and highway hub of more than 160,000 population, historically a strong fortress position and in modern times a strategic citadel in the Siegfried line.

Japan Loses

100 Planes

By The Associated Press

Navy carrier planes let fly at. the western central Philippine islands of Panay, Cebu and Negros -Monday in a continuing attack that already has destroyed at least 200 enemy planes, several cargo ships and smaller craft.

This was the second carrier based raid on the Philippine in three days. The Japanese air force was giving stiff opposition. Fifty Nipponese planes were shot down and more than 150 destroyed on the ground. Adm. Chester W. Nimitz said that preliminary reports indicated the action was continuing. There was no mention of American plane losses

Destruction of the planes on the ground probably means that the fleet of Adm. William F Halsey hit Capiz airfield on Panay, 21 miles from Manila. Halsey's powerful Third fleet, three days ago, san or damaged 89 Japanese cargo ships and destroyed 68 planes in wide spread raids on Mindanao's five airfields and her iron and timber port

There was no mention in yesterday's communique of the attempt in the past ten days by Navy planes and warships to obliterate Japanese defenses on Palau. But there were air strikes ranging from the northern Kuriles to Nauru, almost  on the equator, by Navy and Army planes.

Road to Berlin

By The Associated Press,

Russian Front: 312 miles(from outsitlc Pnhltsk).

Western Front: 319 miles(from cast of Kupen),

Eastern France: 440 miles(from below Montbollard).

Italian Front: 583 miles(from below Rimini).