(ET's Note: See map to be posted November 12 which shows battle lines on Nov. 11, 1918 and
November 11, 1918.)
Daily Newspaper of
U.S. Armed Forces
London Edition Paris
in the European
Theater of Operations
SATURDAY Nov.
II, 1944
Repel Stabs
Nazis;
2
Towns
Fall
Scoring fresh gains up to three
miles in four sectors, Lt. Gen. George S. Pation's Third Army yesterday
captured the ; 12,000-foot-high Delme Ridge and, the towns of Chateau
Salins and Louvigny and threw back two enemy counter-attacks north of Metz, apparent
goal of the new American offensive.
Front-line 'dispatches identified
four more divisions in action—the 18th and 95th Infantry and .the
Fourth and Sixth Armored Doughboys of the 18th
took Delme Ridge, n6rth of the road
hub of Chateau Salins, while the Fourth's tanks rumbled on three miles beyond Delme,
striking toward the Metz-Saarbruecken highway.
Units of the 26th Infantry were
close to Hampont, northeast of Chateau Salins, after moving ahead three miles. Enemy
resistance was stiffer on the northern part qf the new front, about 20 miles above
M'etz, where troops of the 10th Infantry deepened their bridgehead across the
Moselle and beat off tank and
infantry thrusts, in the
Koenigsmacher area.
Closer to Mejtz, the town of
Louvigny, nine miles from the fortress city, was captured and an enemy
resistance pocket. holding a rail
crossing near, by was
Overcome’
Prisoners taken, so far total
1,514.
Trap Developing
Dispatches spoke of a great trap
beginning to take shape in the Metz area, with one spearhead thrusting up from
the south and the other pushing down
from the Thionville area, north
of Metz.
The tips of the: spearheads were
said to be about 30 miles apart.
Casualties
And Damage
Not Heavy'
Prime Minister Winston Churchill admitted
to the House of Commons yesterday that the Germans were firing rockets against
England and that some of them had fallen and caused casualties and damage.
His was the first official Allied
announcement of the Nazi V-2, which the Germans had announced in a communique Wednesday.
Shortly after Churchill's
announced German News Agency circulated a Wilhelmstrasse- statement that
rockets had been used for several weeks
againnst Paris and Antwerp, where "heavy damage has been inflicted on the
town and harbor installations."
Admitting that rockets had been
coming over for the last few weeks, Churchill explained that official silence
about them had been maintained to avoid giving "information useful to the
enemy.
Casualties
Not Heavy
"A number have landed at
widely scattered points in this country," he said, “in all, casualties and
damage have so far not been heavy. " The rocket," as he described it,
"contains approximately the same quantity of high explosive' as the flying
bomb. However, it is designed to penetrate more deeply. This results in some heavier
damage in the immediate locality, but rather less extensive blast.' "The
rocket flies through the stratosphere, going up to 60 or 70 miles, and
outstrips sound because of its
high speed. Because of this no reliable warning can be given,
There is, however, no need to
exaggerate the damage. The scale and, the effects of the attack have not
hitherto not been significant."
Rocket Areas Overrun
Some rockets had been fired from
Walcheren, Churchill said, but this island now in Allied hands, "and other
areas from which rockets have been or can be
fired will doubtless be overrun
by our forces in due course.
"The use of this weapon,
Churchill declared, "is another attempt by the enemy to attack the morale
of our civilian population in the vain hope that he may
by this means stave off the
defeat which faces him in the field."|
United Press quoted a Berlin
radio commentator yesterday, saying that "V-2 itself could never decide
the war in Germany's favor." But V-2, he said, was
by, no means the last secret weapon
we have in store for Londoners and the people in southern England."
Forli
Seized
By
8th Army
ALLIED MEDITERRANEAN HQ,
Nov. 10—
Eighth Army troops, winding up a
three-day pincers drive from south and cast, have captured the cathedral city of.Forli
and reached the damaged main bridge over the Montone River, the west bank of
which is still held by the Germans, it was announced today.
Polish troops crossed the Rabbi
River
south of Forli, and reached the Montone at another point. The Montone, which is west of the town, now forms the front line in the battle for control of the Po
Valley.
Forli, which has
a population of 60,000, is an important communications center, with good highways
radiating toward Bologna, to the northwest, and Ravenna, to the northeast
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