SOUTHERN SECTORS
TOUCH WITH SIEGFRIED LINE LONDON. December 18. | The British United Press correspondent at Supreme Allied Headquarters says the Seventh Army is now in Germany at points along an 18-mile front. Four divisions have reached the forward defences of the Siegfried Line in the Palatinate-Alsatian border, consisting of anti-tank "dragons' teeth," barbed-wire, and pill-boxes. i- An Associated Press correspondent t with the Third Army reports that the | Americans advanced three hundred i yards to the eastern edge of Dillingen today, and also made a slight gain in the Saareguemines area. Air reconnaissance yesterday disclosed the heaviest railway movement ever seen behind the enemy lines in the Third Army sector. | FRENCH FORCED BACK. Reuters correspondent at Supreme Allied Headquarters says that the German counter-attacks in the Alsace Plain and the Vosges have forced the French army to yield more ground The Germans retook Dieboelsheim, 10 I miles east-north-east of Schlettstadt and Bennwihr and Mittelwihr, north- ; east of Colmar, besides the Hohneck peak in the Vosges. Allied forces however, gained more than a mile in the Bonhamme Pas, capturing Kayserberg.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXVIII, Issue 147, 19 December 1944, Page 5
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