New York, N.Y.— London, England—
France Monday, Sept. 4, 1944
American and British troops
plunged deep into Belgium yesterday. And Gen. Patton’s armored columns crossed
the -Moselle River—last water -barrier west of! the German frontier—and reached
the area of Metz and Nancy, fortress cities 25 miles apart on two main roads
leading into Germany. A Reuter correspondent with Third Army troops operating beyond
the Moselle, within 27 miles of the Siegfried line, declared there were no
signs of German resistance east of the German border. German reports placed the
Americans 13 miles from the Reich' in the area of Thionville. Allied pilots reported
that the Maginot line had been abandoned and that the Germans had made a general
withdrawal to behind the Siegfried line, said a UP dispatch from the Third
Army.
As troops moved into Belgium, a
message on behalf of Gen. Eisenhower was broadcast to officers and men of the
German forces in Belgium, warning them against committing atrocities on the
Belgian Forces of Resistance, which, it said, "are now fighting side by
side with Allied forces."
Robot
Bomber
Hits
England
Pick-a-Back
Plane Packed
With
Explosives; Paris
Gets
Doodlebug Raid
X A new German weapon—believed "to be
an explosive-packed Ju88 bomber launched from beneath an Mel09 or FW190
fighter—was used against
England for the first time over
the weekend. Two of the machines fell "somewhere in England" Friday
night but caused little damage and no casualties, the British Minister of Home
Security announced.
Pilotless planes were turned
against the Paris area for the first time the same night, according to the
United Press, but southern England enjoyed a long lull
from robot attacks that passed 48
hours at 1.15 PM yesterday. It was the longest lull since the robot attacks
started in June.
The explosive-carriers which fell
on England Friday night were believed by the Home Security Ministry to be the lower
half of a composite bomber-fighter
pick-a-back plane, packed with
4,000 to 8,000 pounds of explosives.
One of the two came down in open country,
blowing up with a terrific explosion heard miles away.
Patton
Runs Right
Off
His Maps; Gets
A
New Issue by Air
Allied planes dropped ten
tons of maps to Lt. Gen. George S. Patton's racing
units, it was officially
announced over the weekend.
* * *
Some Normandy-based fighters and fighter-bombers
supporting Field Marshal
Montgomery's drive on Belgium are
now refueling in England. They find it quicker
to hop across the Dover Straits
than to return to their own landing fields in
France, now far in
the rear of the Allied armies
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