MOORHEAD, MINNESOTA, WEDNESDAY,
NOVEMBER 22, 1944
Mulhouse, Alsace
Capital, Taken
In Swift Drive
Allied Armies Approach
Roer West of Cologne
Following Tank Victory
Paris,
Nov. 22 (UP) —
The
American First army captured Eschweiler today after a three day siege,
unhinging the German defenses west of Cologne, and far to the south the
bastions of Mulhouse and Metz fell to allied armies chopping up the nazi
positions in France.
Paris,
Nov. 22 (UP)—
Allied
armies captured the key bastions of Mulhouse and Metz today, smashed through
the Vosges mountain line guarding the upper Rhineland, and neared the Roer
river west of Cologne after knocking out 67 nazi tanks in an armored battle.
The
French First army swooped down on Mulhouse, industrial capital of Alsace, so
swiftly that it captured part of the German 19th army general staff.
The American broadcasting station in Europe said the French racing down the
Rhine valley had battled into Colmar, 20 miles north of Mulhouse.
The
siege of Metz ended officially at 8:45 a. m. CWT when the last German
resistance collapsed, freeing powerful American Third army forces to join in
the pursuit of the Germans fleeing northeastern France.
Lieutenant
General Alexander M. Patch's Seventh army, between the French First and United
States Third, crashed through the Vosges in advances on a broad front which brought
the doughboys within sight of Germany itself and formed the upper arm of a
pincers closing against the nazis in the upper
Rhineland.
Russians Forge Forward
In Attempt To Shatter
Blockade of Riga Harbor
Counter-Blows, Rain
Stalled Army Drive
On Hungarian Capital
London,
Nov. 22 (UP) —
Soviet
tanks and riflemen, supported by the guns of the red fleet, slashed deep into
the last pocket of German resistance on the southern tip of Saar island today,
in a bitterly- contested drive to reopen the gulf of Riga and break the nazi blockade
on Riga harbor.
Far
to the south, German counter- blows and driving rains that churned the
Hungarian battlefields into a quagmire stalled the red army's enveloping sweep
on Budapest almost to a standstill. Marshal Rodion Y. Malinovsky's Second
Ukrainian army hacked out limited gains all along the 80-raile front extending
northeastward from Budapest, but the ceaseless rains and stiffened enemy
resistance pre- vented any decisive breakthrough.
Formidable Nan
Tank Force Gets
Decisive Beating
70-Ton "King Tigers"
Included In Bag By
Simpson's Armor
With
United States Ninth army,
Germany,
Nov. 22 (UP)—
Lieutenant
General William H. Simpson's armor decisively defeated the most formidable
German tank force engaged since D-day, knocking out 67 of about 100 enemy
tanks—including 42 of the new 70-ton "King Tigers"—in a four-day
battle northeast of Aachen.
The
roaring tank battle swayed back and forth on the plain west of the Roer river for
four days, and today Simpson's armor was in firm position on high ground
controlling the approaches within sight of the river.
The
Germans threw into it their first substantial commitment of the "King
Tiger" tanks, which carry seven to 10 inches of armor and improved
88-millimeter guns effective at a range exceeding 2,000 yards.
Damaging Blows
Landed On Two
More Jap Ships
Pre-Dawn Attack Made
On Borneo Navy Base,
Mac Arthur Announces
Allied
headquarters, Philippines,
Nov.
22 (UP)—
American
Liberators scored damaging hits on two more Japanese warships, one of them a light
cruiser, in a pre-dawn attack Sunday on the naval base at Brunei bay, Borneo,
General Douglas MacArthur: announced today.
He
also disclosed that Manila and the remainder of the Philippines had been
brought within range of his land-based bombers for intensified raids through
the use of expanded airfields on Leyte as refueling bases. Heretofore, only
carrier-based planes have been able to reach Manila, capital and main enemy
stronghold in the Philippines. Though he has announced no land-based attacks on
Manila, MacArthur said Liberators from southern bases had refueled at Leyte over
the weekend before going on to raid targets on Cebu, Mindanao andelsewhere in
the central Philippines.
On
the fighting front, Japanese resistance in the
pocket in northwest Leyte appeared near the breaking point, but the
enemy was preparing a strong new defense line along the Leyte river to the
southeast.
A spokesman for MacArthur said the Japanese had a large
concentration of shipping at Brunei, which they had been using as a stopover
point on the north-south run between Japan proper and her stolen East Indies
empire.
Other
bombers from the southwest Pacific command sank two coastal vessels, probably
sank two freighters and damaged five other vessels in attacks in the
Philippines, Borneo and Celebes
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