AMERICANS' ATTACK

Evening Post, Volume CXXXVIII, Issue 82, 4 October 1944, Page 5

AMERICANS' ATTACK

... _ LONDON, October 3. American First Army troops, advancing four miles in two days, have broken through the old Siegfried Line north of Aachen, They Will now come up against new fortifications.

Correspondents reported earlier that the Americans had broken through the first heavy crust of the defences and fought their way four miles from the point where they jumped off yesterday. The latest report is that General Hodges' men are right through / the main Siegfried Line and have crossed the main road running ' north of Aachen. Between this point and the Rhine, which is about 35 miles away, there are still concrete fortifications.

A development reported from General Bradley's sector is a new assault by Third Army forces near Metz. The Germans are offering stubborn resistance.

To the south towards the Swiss frontier, Allied troops of the Seventh Army have entered a town 10 miles irom Belfort.

Troops of the First 'Canadian Army have "occupied the northern suburbs of Antwerp after several days of fighting along the" waterways and canals. Canadian and.Polish forces have gained more ground across the canal linking Antwerp with Turnhout, and have reached .the' Dutch .border at new points. . '.

British First Army treops, on the .right of the Canadians 'in Holland, jfliave closed in further towards the itown of Helmond, on the western flank of the salient.

/Today has ibeen relatively auiet in the Nijmegen spearhead area, and bad ..weather has hampered ground and air .operations. On the "eastern flank of the salient, General Dempsey's troops tbave mopped up more of the German pockets still on our«side of the Maas, and on one sector our tanks have pushed forward nearly six miles. The Germans are putting up a very stubborn defence before the Maas in this area.