Wednesday, Sept.
20,1944
SHAEF, Sept. 19 (AP)—
Gen. Brereton's First Allied
Airborne Army today poured reinforcements and supplies for the third
consecutive day into the hard-swung Holland haymaker which knocked out the
lower Rhine as a German defense line and threatened to roll up Von Rundstedt's
flank for the second time.
British armor which broke through
the Dutch border to Eindhoven for a linkup with the southernmost airborne
landing area was declared in battlefield
reports tonight to have captured
Eindhoven itself and bludgeoned its way at least 12 miles north of the town. That
would put the ground army 23 miles inside Holland—half the way to Nijmegen and
Arr.hem, Where the northern landing forces blocked out Nazi reserves, virtually
cut oil; Rotterdam, The
Hague and Amsterdam, and more
than held their own in the fight for the key roads and 'bridges on both sides
of the Rhine.
"CA Reuter dispatch from the
British Second Army front said that Gen. Dempsey's troops were three miles
south of Nijmegen and five miles from the German frontier and that British
armor advanced 37 miles during the day.)
Rest
of Front Stiffens
That turning of the Rhine flank
took on increasing importance as sopping rains and fanatical counter-attacks by
the Germans—their backs to the Rhine from
Cologne to the Belfon Gap—temporarily
slowed, although they failed anywhere to stop, the eastward onslaught of three American
armies.
Moscow Breaks
Silence
To Announce
Capture
After 5 Days
After five days of no-quarter
tank battles on the Baltic front, the Red Army reaped its first reward last night
with the capture of the important rail junction of Volga on the border between
Estonia and Latvia— where all major lines from Estonia bottleneck on their way south.
Marshal Stalin's announcement of
the town's seizure was Moscow's first official acknowledgement of the offensive
which the Germans reported was launched last Friday on a great arc stretching
from south of Riga to the area of Lake Peipus,
170 miles to the northeast,
Soviet front line dispatches reported the Germans had thrown an entire
regrouped panzer army into the fighting 25 miles south of Riga.
No significant changes were
reported in other sectors, except for German reports that the Russians sent
troops across the Vistula north of Warsaw where,
according to German News Agency,
they were later wiped out.
Finns Accept
Terms
On the politico-diplomatic stage,
there were developments at both ends of the eastern front. Stockholm heard
apparently reliable reports that -the Finnish Parliament had approved armistice
terms with Russia, and in Moscow a communique announced the arrest of the
former Rumanian dictator. Marshal Ion
Antonescu, and chiefs of various
German missions.
Robots kill Evacuees
Who Thought lt Safe
To Return to
Homes
Evacuees who had returned from
safe areas to southern England, and people who had left air raid shelters to
sleep at home again, were among at least 26 persons killed or seriously injured
when flying bombs fell in southern England and the London area early yesterday.
The robot bombs may have been
discharged over the North Sea from airplanes based either at some point in Norway,
on the Isle of Sylt, or even inside Germany.
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