Americans Establish New Front

Evening Star, Issue 25344, 28 November 1944, Page 5

Americans Establish New Front

Allied Paratroops Landed To Cut Railway

French Advance Threatens Enemy's Rear

(British Official Wireless.)

(Keceived noon.) LONDON, November 27. American infantry have established a new three-mile front in Germany with an advance of one and a-half miles in the area north=west of Saarlouis. Reuter's correspondent • with the American Third Army says the Third Army's front in Germany now extends 19 miles. The Americans have reached within six miles north-west of Saarlouis.

American infantry of the First Army have pushed into the town of Hurtgen, says the Associated Press correspondent. Other forces captured Frenz, one mile north-east of Weisweiler. It is reliably reported that small groups of Allied paratroops landed in Southern Germany on the railway passing through Emnendingen, says the British United Press Basle correspondent. The cutting of this strategic railway, which feeds the German front north of Basle, is interpreted as a sign that the Allied troops operating near the Swiss border will not be satisfied with taking the bridgehead at Huriingen, one mile north of Basle, but intend to jump across the Rhine.

The Swiss authorities announced the voluntary evacuation of the" northermost part of Basle. This part of the town is on the east bank of the Ehine, and is exposed to German artillery fire.' ...

The two generals captured at Strasbourg were General-major Vaterrot, military commander of the city, and General-major TJttarspergen, engineer commander, who was responsible for the fortifications. Vaterrot's chief of staff was also taken prisoner. The loss of these key men is likely to disorganise what resistance remains around Strasbourg.

The French advancing up the Alsatian Plain have reached La Chappelle, eight miles north-east of Belfort, thus creating a serious threat to the enemy's rear, says the Associated Press correspondent at Sixth Army Group headquarters. The Germans have abandoned all their forts east of Belfort, but some <are still resisting in Belfort itself. German units which tried to cut the road between Belfort, and Sappois, seven miles south-west of Altkirch, have been either destroyed or driven across the Swiss border.