CORSICANA, TEXAS, SATURDAY,
SEPTEMBER 9, 1944. —TEN PAGES
AMERICAN
FORCES
POISED
FOR GREAT
BLOW
SIEGFRIED LINE
GERMANS
DESPERATELY
RALLYING
REINFORCEMENTS
FOR
BATTLE
By EDWARD D.
BALL
ON
THE MOSELLE FRONT.
France, Sept. 9,—(AP)—
A difficult situation developed
at one of the Third army's bridgeheads across the Moselle south of Metz today as
daughboys came under terrific fire from camouflaged German forts studding the
river's eastern bank.
The enemy is inflicting stiff
losses upon forces which crossed the river here, but the Americans are clinging
to their shallow bridgehead while their massed artillery blasts the German
forts with a thundering fire.
By JAMES LONG
LONDON, Sept. 9—(AP)—
American forces poised for a
killing blow at the Siegfried line smashed the heaviest counterattack the
Germans have mustered since the battle of Normandy today while the British
Second army beat to pieces a last-hope German attempt to break out of the
coastal entrapment between Lille and Gent In Belgium.
GERMANS
HURL MAJOR
FORCE
AGAINST THIRD
ARMY
DRIDGEHEADS
FIRST
FULL-SCALE HEAVY
BATTLE
SINCE NORMANDY
OPENED
TODAY
By DWIGHT PITKIN
Associated Press
War Editor
The Germans hurled major forces
today against Lt. Gen. George S. Patton's U. S. Third army bridgehead on the
Moselle River to eastern France, precipitating the first full-scale heavy
battle since the American breakthrough in Normandy July 25, frontline
dispatches reported. A big German
counterattack was repulsed.
Hitting northern outposts of the Siegfried
line, vanguards of the British Second army forced a new crossing of the Albert
canal in an offensive apparently aimed at German strongholds near the mouth of
the Rhine on the direct approaches to Berlin from the west.
A battlefront dispatch said the crossing
was effected on the area of Gheel, 25 miles east of Antwerp and three or four
miles northwest of a previous bridgehead which had enveloped Bourg-Leopold. The
Second army all so was meeting strong opposition.
The Germans were reported rushing
reinforcements from Holland in an effort to prevent a breakthrough into the
northern sector of the west wall.
GENERAL
SIGNS OF IMPORTANT
DEVELOPMENTS
CLOSE AT HAND
IN
ALLIES' WAR UPON JAPAN
By DEWITT
MACKENZIE
Associated Press
War Analyst.
There are many signs that important
developments are Impending in the war on Japan.
First, London is convinced
President Roosevelt and Prime Minister Churchill will meet again in the
immediate future—probably at Quebec. They not only will plan for peace, but get
set to unleash the entire allied striking power against Japan the instant
Hitler has been knocked out.
Here enters General Elsenhower's
headquarters to give us a possible late for the feuhrer's crack-up.
They say the end for Germany may come
by early November.
Coincident with this, American
bombers have made another heavy assault on Palau, the Nipponese naval and air
base known as "the Japanes Singapore." Observers, piecing this Into
the Oriental jigsaw, think it presages big events which will unlock the gateway
for direct assault on the Philippines.
Palau, which can accommodate a
great naval fleet, lies only 550 miles east of Mindano Island in the Southern
Philippines. Before an attack can be made on Mindano by General MacArthur,
Palau must be rendered impotent.
There's one other obstacle still in
MacArthur'a .way, the Island of Halmahera which is said to be strongly held but
it has air fields which MacArthur needs not only for his own security but for
operations against the Nipponese on Mindanao.
War
At A Glance
By The
Associated Press
WESTERN FRONT —
Blggeat American
fighting force ever massed on foreign soil closes in for battle of Germany;
British secure second bridgehead across Albert Canal
line—Patch's
force within 25 miles of Belfort Gap.
BALKANS —
Reds grant
Bulgarian armistice; Russians greet Bulgars as brothers In arms; Germans
may be cleared out of Balkans within week.
ITALY —
British and
Germans battle savagely for Rimini, gateway to Po Valley.
EASTERN FRONT —
Germans announce
new Ruwlaa in Poland. offensive
PACIFIC —
Hard, new air
stabs at Jap fortresses in Celebes and Halmabera reported.
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