ROUGH GOING
SIEGFRIED LINE BREACH r.Rec. 2 p.m.. LONDON, October 3. The Americans attempting to fan out and-widen the breach in the Siegfried Line are .finding the going rough. Bad weather is preventing -effective assistance from the air. Bull- •- dozers are closely supporting the infantry, burying stubborn Germans in -.their oWn foxholes. There is evidence that despite their '7. reverses the .Germans are building up -defences all the way to the Rhine. .:' A Berlin radio reporter said that Aachen is now a ghost town, presenting the same melancholy aspect as - abandoned French towns. There is a ghostly sjlence. The railway station is deserted and the 'centre of the .town 'is in ruins. . ... , _..
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXVIII, Issue 82, 4 October 1944, Page 6
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112ROUGH GOING Evening Post, Volume CXXXVIII, Issue 82, 4 October 1944, Page 6
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