The Germans have drawn up crack troops across the Lorraine gap. There are strong forces of men, artillery and tanks, including heavy armour, to resist the American advance. >' The nature of the present fighting is shown by the experience of a reconnaissance unit which entered a village. The Germans withdrew so hurriedly that they left partly-eaten meals, but they soon returned with reinforcements. Then the Americans had to move out until support arrived and, after a short engagement, they were able to move in to stay. As the battle takes shape, the Germans continue their efforts to withdraw southward those forces left behind by the Third Army's rapid advance. Algiers radio reports that street fighting is going on in Nancy. The Americans have captured Sedan, also Bievres, 18 miles south-east of Sedan and four miles east of the Meuse River, states Supreme Headquarters. The Americans in Belgium captured Huy and Wavre. The capture of Sedan gives the Allies control of one of the best roads to Germany. American columns are now operating across the Meuse in five places, Huy, Dinant, Givet, Sedan and Bievres. Allied fighters and fighter-bombers are taking tremendous toll of enemy transport fleeing in the direction of Aachen. Up to 4 p.m. to-day they had destroyed 483 motor lorries, 217 horsedrawn and 20 armoured vehicles and shot up hundreds of German troops in low-level attacks. The German news agency stated that German troops from the south, between the Meuse and the Saone Rivers, junctioned with the main German front in protection of the Reich at the Burgundy gateway now taken over by German troops withdrawn from Southern and South-western France. According to the Gazette de Lausanne, American armour reached Mont Belliard, nine miles south-south-west of Belfort.

Auckland Star, Volume LXXV, Issue 213, 8 September 1944, Page 5

The Germans have drawn up crack troops across the Lorraine gap. There are strong forces of men, artillery and tanks, including heavy armour, to resist the American advance. >' The nature of the present fighting is shown by the experience of a reconnaissance unit which entered a village. The Germans withdrew so hurriedly that they left partly-eaten meals, but they soon returned with reinforcements. Then the Americans had to move out until support arrived and, after a short engagement, they were able to move in to stay. As the battle takes shape, the Germans continue their efforts to withdraw southward those forces left behind by the Third Army's rapid advance. Algiers radio reports that street fighting is going on in Nancy. The Americans have captured Sedan, also Bievres, 18 miles south-east of Sedan and four miles east of the Meuse River, states Supreme Headquarters. The Americans in Belgium captured Huy and Wavre. The capture of Sedan gives the Allies control of one of the best roads to Germany. American columns are now operating across the Meuse in five places, Huy, Dinant, Givet, Sedan and Bievres. Allied fighters and fighter-bombers are taking tremendous toll of enemy transport fleeing in the direction of Aachen. Up to 4 p.m. to-day they had destroyed 483 motor lorries, 217 horsedrawn and 20 armoured vehicles and shot up hundreds of German troops in low-level attacks. The German news agency stated that German troops from the south, between the Meuse and the Saone Rivers, junctioned with the main German front in protection of the Reich at the Burgundy gateway now taken over by German troops withdrawn from Southern and South-western France. According to the Gazette de Lausanne, American armour reached Mont Belliard, nine miles south-south-west of Belfort.