AACHEN ENCIRCLED
SEVERAL TOWNS CAPTURED ATTACKS BY FLYING BOMBS (Received Sept. 21, 1 p.m.) LONDON, Sept. 20 The United States First Army has completely encircled Aachen, says a statement from Supreme Headquarters. First Army forces also have made another penetration into Germany, just beyond Sittard (on the Dutch border), which they captured yesterday. The latest communique says that east of Aachen fighting is in progress in the area of Stolberg. Enemy pressure is being met south-east of Aachen. Heavy and determined resistance was encountered east of the German-Luxembourg border. American guns are shelling Duren, 17 miles east of Aachen. Allied bombers struck ahead of this thrust yesterday and attacked three key points on the railway from Aachen to Cologne. In reply the Germans launched a number of flying bombs toward the Meuse Valley, apparently against installations in the American rear. The mopping up of German elements is progressing east of Roetgen, across the Belgian border from Eupen, and we have captured Hofen, 17 miles south-east of Aachen.
Our armoured units moving across Luxembourg to the German frontier, have taken the town of Huttingen, 20 miles north-west of Trier and three miles inside the frontier.
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Waikato Times, Volume 195, Issue 22459, 21 September 1944, Page 5
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