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LXXX-NO. 304 MILLVILLE, N. WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 27, 1944 MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE, THREE CENTS Soto ze 36 Red Shock Troops In Upon Seared Budapest Street Fighting Reported As Nazis Face Real Crisis Moscow, Dec. 27. -(AP) Red Army shock troops charged upon Budapest from hills the Danube snowy River today.

The German garriburned military stores, dynamited public utilities fought grimly with field artillery scattered throughout the garian Half a dozen Soviet capital. spearheads were reported closing on the western half of the encircled city and all German roads of escape cut off. Just how many Nazi troops comprise the defending garrison is not known here, but the Russian command said their numbers were large. Soviet assault units. of tanks, plus tommy-gunners, were be-' lieved to have slashed some distance into the Buda district on the west bank of the Danube.

Fight On Streets -A delayed dispatch from Szekesfehervar, about 32 miles southwest of Budapest, disclosed that the Nazis had fought for the city street by street. A pillbox was manned outside, St. Stephen's Cathedral was silenced by a direct hit. Thousands of German dead were reported to have lined the roads on the battlefields betwen Szekesfehervar Budapest the Russian advance. Burned out armored vehicles, many ef them the latest King Tiger and Panther tanks, dotted the fields and endless columns of Nazi prisoners marched miserably to the cages, the dispatch said: From hilltops of the Buda district on the west bank of the Danube Marshal Feodor I.

Tolbukhin's heavy artillery dominated the entire city. Armored columns, already deep inside the city's western outskirts, were blasting their way house by house toward two big bridges that span the Danube and link the two sections of the city. Supreme Crisis Field dispatches said other RusI sian successes achieved simultaneously with yesterday's encirclement of the Hungarian capital had brought the German command in the east to a moment of? supreme crisis. Tolbukhin's Third Ukraine Army. and Marshal Rodion Y.

Malinovsky's Second. Ukraine Army, it was pointed out, are tactically linked sup northwest of Budapest for a joint drive up both sides of the Danube to Bratislava, Slovakian capital, and Vienna. Swarming forward along, Hron (Garam), a northern tributary of the Danube, Malinovsky's troops captured at least 13 towns in southern Czechoslovakia and advanced within 63 miles of Bratislava and Tolbukhin's within gains 96 of west Vienna. Buda- pest tightened the Russian battle zone in the Danubian basin into the equivalent of a single front, stretching some 250 miles from the approaches to the Eastern Slovakian fortress town of Kassa to the Southwestern. Hungarian gap below Balaton.

Three Local Friends Meet At Italian Base 15th Air Force in -Flying with a B-24 Liberator group of the 15th AAF, three South Jersey men recently renewed a school-day friendship, meeting by chance at their base in Italy. They are Sgt. Lewis Sharpless, son of Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Sharpless, 22 Foundry Street, Millville, tail gunner; 2nd H.

McCoubrie, 26 Chestnut Street, Salem, navigator; and Sgt. Frank J. Pugliese, of 520 North Sixth Street, Millville, a waist gunner and radio operator. Sharpless and Pugliese played football and basketball together at Millville High School. All three recall having gone swimming together many times at the Salem Country Club.

Lt. McCoubrie is a graduate of Salem High and attended Michigan U. prior to entering the service. Ass't Sergeant-At-Arms To Be. From Cumberland Trenton, The steering "committee of the 1945 Republican-controlled New Jersey Assembly announced today.

the county distribution of patronage jobs for the House session opening Jan. 9. County job allotments and their salaries (the appointees will be named by county leaders and Assemblymen) include: Cumberland an assistant sergeant-at-arms, $400. Fire Rages Today Kansas City, Dec. raged today through three big buildings in the downtown warehouse district.

Twenty Kansas City companies, making no headway after five hours of fighting, called further help from the Kansas City, department. Improving Mrs. Caroline Sheppard, 65, of 503 North Fourth Street, who is an appendectomy patient in Millville Hospital, is improving. 'Hogan's Task Force' Escapes Enemy Trap East Marche, Belgium, Dec. 26.

(Delayed) -(AP). Their faces blacked, their helmets and armored vehicles left behind, the fighting 400 of "Hogan's task force" came out of the woods through 10 miles of enemy lines this Isolated, and encircled miles from any. help, they had been given as lost after six days. But out of slightly more than 400 men who struck. across no man's land all but about returned, including their commander, Lt.

Col. Samuel M. Hogan of Pharr, Tex. Here is what they had done: Penetrated enemy lines more than 30 miles. Been trapped by three Panzer divisions outnumbering them literally hundreds to one.

Fought such a mobile, cagey battle they managed to keep the enemy confused and at bay on all sides until their ran out. Dug into a village high point when their own cause seemed hopeless and served so effectively by radio as "forward observers" Thomas F. Fox Dies Suddenly Active As Resident Of Mauricetown Thomas F. Fox, 45, member of the Commercial Township, Board Education, and a resident of Mauricetown for the past eight years, died early yesterday while visiting his mother at South. Amboy, N.

J. Mr. Fox, had taken his family to his mother's home for Christmas. He was stricken ill Monday and died early Tuesday morning. He had been in failing health for the past year.

Born in Paterson, Mr. Fox moved to Mauricetown eight ago and was head carpenter in the maintenance department at the Leesburg State Prison Farm. He was a member of the Veterans of Foreign Wars, having participated in World War a the Commercial Towner of the Mauricetown Fire ship Board of Education; pany and secretary of the fire commissioners. His term as a member of the. Board of Education would not expire until 1947.

Surviving are his wife, Margaret and and two children, Jean, 10, Muriel. 5. from Funeral Kenneys' services Funeral will be Parlor, held Second Street, South Amboy, Friday afternoon. Fifth Army Withdraws From. Advance Position Rome, Dec.

27. -(AP)- A strong German counterattack near Italy's west coast has forced Fifth Army forces to withdraw from advance positions in the Serchio River Valley, Allied headquarters announced today. The enemy thrusts came east and west of the road town of Gallicano, 14 miles inland from the Tyrhennian coast, after artillery preparation. (By latest reports the Brazilian Expeditionary Force was the' opthat section of Fifth Army front.) It was announced here that the withdrawals were made only after bitter fighting, but no details were, immediately available. The Eighth Army front on the opposite coast was generally quiet, although the Canadians still were fanning out northeast of newlycaptured Rossetta, clearing fied buildings.

Other Eighth Army troops were advancing in the same manner in the area of Bagnacavallo and Faenza. Young Soldier's Death Reported Accidental Death of Sydney- Kotok, 20, son of Mr. and Mrs. Irving Kotok of Danbury, formerly of this city, was accidental, according ng to relatives in Bridgeton and Vineland, and the body has been removed to the parents home. Kotok, serving in the U.S.

Army at Cumberland, was shot through the head, according to a telegram sent his parents. It was at a known prisoner that of war camp but late he was on guard duty reports indicate that death was accidental. The young soldier is a graduate of Millville High School three resided here until about ago when his parents moved to Recover Bodies Of Child Fire Victims Gettysburg, Dec. 27. (AP)- Recovery children of the who charred died bodies three when fire destroyed their home nearby Hunterstown last Thursday has ended the search of the fire-blackened ruins.

Twe bodies, identified by Dr. C. Crist, Adams Counted coroner, as those of Byron children 5, and his sister, Gloria, 2, of Mr. and. Mrs.

Roy Reedy, were found yesterday. The body of an older sister, Janet Reedy, 14, was recovered last Thursday. Five From City Among 21 Named In Indictments Grand Jury Returns right in the midst of the enemy that they called artillery shots which broke up a major enemy counterattack along the whole sector. Refused to surrender, although they appeared to face almost certain annihilation. Damaged armored vehicles, rendering, them useless to the enemy, and made a bold Christmas night escape afoot, slipping out of a trap just as the Germans' snapped the teeth shut with an artillery and mortar' barrage and an infantry attack.

Hiked over a hilly timbered hogback 10 miles to safety, Leading a swift striking column of approximately 60 vehicles varying from medium tanks to jeeps and including a few artillery pieces, colorful Texan who loves to they the Lone. Star State's flag on his jeep or. halftrack jumped off from little town near here at 2:30 P. M. on Dec.

20. The town subsequently became the scene of a terrific battle. Local Young Man Hurt In Crash Herschel Slimmer In Shore Hospital Herschel Slimmer, Fifth and Broad is a patient in the Shore Memorial Hospital, Somers' Point, the result of accident which occurred last Friday afternoon on the Woodbine-Tuckahoe road. He suffered a fractured leg and other minor injuries but hospital officials reported his condition this morning as good. Slimmer, who is employed in a Woodbine clothing factory, was accompanying some friends to their home following work Friday when the accident occurred.

Cape May Court House State Police investigated, It was that the automobile, reported, one of the other occupants, skidded on the icy road and then slid into a road piling. The other occupants escaped with only slight injuries. Two besides Slimmer, remain in the hospital. Police reported that the accident was caused by the ice on the highway. and no arrest was made: Japan Emphasizes Philippine Importance BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS reported today United States Japan's War and.

Navy Ministers has suffered 503,000 casualties in the Pacific since Pearl Harbor and the decisive battles of the war would be fought in the Philippines. Nipponese broadcasts, recorded the Federal Communications Commission, said their statements were made in formal reports to the 86th session of the Nipponese Diet. Tokyo radio said that in his report to the 86th session of the Japanese Diet Navy Minister MitsuYonai "emphasized that all masa. efforts of the Japanese are now concentrated in the decisive battles in the Philippine area." Because it is "situated in a strategic point for Japan." 19 Nazi Prisoners Are Still At Large -Phoenix. Dec.

27. (AP) The next 36 hours may determine if there will be quick roundup of 19 Germans still at large after a sensational escape from the Papago Park prisoner of war camp, an Army officer said today. of 25- Nazi U-boat officers and men who fled through a. 200- foot tunnel were recaptured. Sunday night a few hours after the was discovered.

None has escape been apprehended since. Hospital Notes Mrs. Rae Taylor, Third and Stratton Avenue, is a surgical patient in the Millville Hospital. Admitted for treatment was Mrs. Mary Crane, Main Road.

Four were admitted today for the removal of their tonsils, Carol Klott, 308 East Oak Street; Street; Robert JoQuinn, 7 East Foundry seph Majeske, 1200 Wheaton Avenue, and Michael Wiltin, Sugarman Avenue. Disorderly Persons James Milton, colored, Cedarville, was fined $5 and costs last night by Justice of the Peace Gillman of Cedarville for operating an automobile without a driver's license. Cosey Creighton, Port Norris, was given a suspended sentence on a disorderly charge. Both arrests were made by the Port Norris State Police. Four Alarm Fire Philadelphia, Dec.

four-alarm fire early today destroyed 3,200,000 pounds of wool and the Kensington plant of Hyman Brodsky Son almost trapping seven employees and threatening for a time an adjoining oil plant containing 186,000 gallons of oil. Ominous Quiet Covering Front Today After Strong Counterattack By U.S. Troops Blunts Powerful Nazi Drive 14 Indictments For. December Term Bridgeton, Dec. 27-Five from Millville were among 21 persons named in 14 different indictments by the December Grand Jury, it was announced today after the indictments were released.

The Grand Jury met last week but the indictments were impounded over the Christmas weekend and opened yesterday afternoon. Indicted from Millville were Andrew Rocap and Mrs. Mamie Parish, moral charges; Walter Bailey, assault and battery; John Lauber, assault and battery, and Benjamin Gatliff, abduction. The latter was arrested by Millville police after he allegedly abducted a 13 year old Millville girl and married her against her wishes. In addition to the indictments against the Millville residents, three Vineland men were named in an indictment charging them with gambling.

They were Herman Snyderman, Jack Hoover and Harry Rothman. Four men, who escaped from the Leesburg State Prison Farm were indicted George Sol Giannone, whiR escaped in October and Milton Reeves and Harvey Williams, who escaped September 24. No date has been set for pleading day. Flash! New York Bombed By Plane New York. Dec.

27. -(AP) Perplexed Federal Communications. to Commission the Office mon- of War Information today that they had recorded the following broadcast from the French radio station at Brazzaville: "It was officially announced this morning at the Supreme Command of the Allied Expeditionary Forces that New York was bombed last night.The attack was made by one plane." Chimney Fire Millville firemen were called to Third and Streets last evening for a chimney fire. There was no damage. Late News Briefs New York, Dec.

-A BBC broadcast from Lon- don today said American columns are now, only miles Bastogne, where a beleagured American garrison is holding out against heavy enemy pressure. The broadcast, recorded by CBS, said "numerous German tanks have been destroyed" in Nazi attempts to enter the town. Athens, Dee. 27. -(AP.) Greek Populist Party members declared today that peace proposals by representatives of the Left- Wing ELAS were unacceptable and the conference called by Prime Minister Churchill ended its second meeting without an agreement.

Philadelphia. Dec. 27. -A frozen switch threw two Pennsylvania Railroad cars off their tracks onto other rails today, crushing Brakeman Lee Mosley, 40, standing on the second track, between them. Mosley was seriously injured.

Washington, Dec. -Destruction of a large Japanese aircraft carrier, six additional enemy warships and 20 other Nipponese vessels by American submarines was ported by the Navy today. Few details were given on the big bag by the subs operating in far eastern Waters, announced by Secretary Forrestal at news conference. The aircraft carrier was not identified beyond the statement that it was "large." The other warships blasted by the underseas fleet One converted light cruiser, destroyer, two escort vessels and two destroyer transports. 0ther ships sent to the bottom by American torpedoes and depth guns, were two large transports.

"10 medium cargo vessels. three small cargo vessels, one, small transport, two medium cargo transports, and two medium tankers. These sinkings. bring to 090 the number of Japanese ships sunk. probably sunk or damaged since the war started.

Included are 99 warships definitely sunk, 11 probably sunk and 16 damaged. London, Dec. David Lloyd George, who. led Britain to victory in the last war, announced today he would retire re from Parliament when his term expires, on advice of his physician. The 81-year-old statesman is known as the "father" of the House of Commons, where he has sat for 54 years.

Industrial Tokyo Slugged For Fifth Time By Superfortresses; Nip Planes Raid Saipan Base According 'To Japanese BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Japanese Domei news agency said today Nipponese planes raided the U. S. Saipan consecutive B-29 base night for the second. Tuesday, "causing huge explosions." The broadcast intercepted by Federal Communications Commission was not confirmed immediately by U. S.

headquarters. r. Tokyo Washington, industrial Dec, 27. areas -(AP)- were slugged today for the by Saipan-based. Superfortresses.

The daylight strike by B-29's of the 21st Bomber Command was the first on the sprawling December Japanese nese capital since 3. A War Department communique did not report further details. Tokyo radio said the giant plates. "dropped explosives. and incendiaries at random, causing insignificant damage." A Japanese Imperial communique said about 50 Superforts were Break Truce Called In Greece British Charge ELAS With Break Athens, Dec.

27. -(AP) The Br announced today that ELAS artillery had broken a conference truce by firing upon a British warship and the AngloGreek naval headquarters late yesterday and that, as a result, offensive air action would begin again. The British informed the ELAS that the truce was regarded as null and void. The conference was 50 tense that all delegates surrendered their side arms at the door. "Whether Greece is a monarchy republic is: a matter for the Greeks and the Greeks alone to decide," the Prime Minister told' assemblage before he and other British representatives retired and left the Greeks to continue the conference alone.

"All we wish you is good, and good for all," Churchill added. Britain's only' interest in using her troops in current civil war, Churchill asserted, is to bring end to disorder and make sible an election by secret ballot. More New York Meat Shops Close New York. Dec. -(AP.) More butcher shops, exceeding a police estimate of 35 per cent, were expected to close in New York City today as retail dealers continued their "holiday" in protest against OPA regulations which they claim, due to an ab-1 sence of ceiling prices on livestock, prevent them from operating at.

a profit. Police Lewis Valentine announced yesterday that 2,135 of 6,020 shops checked or approximately 35 per centwere closed yesterday. Announce Engagement Mr. and Mrs. Burton K.

son Jr. of 310 Smith Street, anpounce the engagement of their daughter. Miss Lois Mae Garrison, to Private First Class Arlington G. Goehle Jr. son of Mr.

and Mrs. Arlington G. Goehle, of Lockport, New Yofk. Pfc. Goehle is stationed 'at the local air field.

Condemn Out Building An out building on the property of John Grant, 311 North Fifth Street, was condemned by, the Millville City Commission last Friday and ordered demolished, and not the home as indicated in a previous story. Rotary. Holds Party -Annual party of the Rotary Club was held last evening at the Good Sports Gun A delightful evening was enjoyed. Announce Engagement Mr. (and Mrs.

Granville Keen of 316 Howard Street, announced the engagement on Christmas Eve of their daughter, Miss Virginia Keen, to Edward McMahon, son of Mr. and Mrs. Edward McMahon, of 615 Mulberry Street. No date has been set for the wedding. Greatest Battle Of The War Is Seen As Likely (in the nine attacking definitely force and claimfive probably and 27 others were shot down.

aged: Japanese War Minister Gen Sugiyama interrupted his war report to the Diet this afternoon a statement on al B-29 raid "then in 1 progress over the city. According to a Japanese broadcast, he said: "Approximately 50 of the B-29's have penetrated the skies over Tokyo-Yokohama area up to the present time. They have dropped explosives and incendiaries on several points in the oly previous raids area." on Tokyo the flying battleships have trated fighter on whittling. down Japaplane production. One of the Empire's top producers of military planes, the Musashima Engine factory of the Makajima Aircraft plant, was target of the December 3, Toughest Trip Returning pilots tabbed this the toughest of the B-29 Tokyo strikes beginning November.

24 and re- Pfc. John M. Cole Wounded Second Time Pfc. John M. Cole, 30, serving in Italy, has been wounded for the second time, according to letter received from Cole by relatives here.

Pfc. Cole was first wounded on Sept. 20, that time in the shoulder. His newest wound was fered between the knee and thigh. from.

shrapnel. The local soldier has been overseas since July. Jap Airfields Target Of U.S. Nips Make Fight Of Several Attacks General MacArthur's Headquarters, Philippines, Dee: 27. (AP)- Land American bombers fourth consecutive day blasted.

Japan's airfields at Manila on Luzon Island, now regarded, as vulherable to reinvation by Yank forces mopping up in. the Central Philippines. Clark Field was the principal target as it was in two of the previous attacks, was plastered Monday with 88,000 pounds of explosives, Gen. Douglas MaeArthur reported today. The Japanese showed a disposition to make fight of it.

They sent up at least 50 interceptors, of which 39 were by Yankee fighter escorts. Four more were listed as probably downed. The day's bag brought to 72 the total of Japanese planes shot down in 48 hours in the nila raids. The Americans lost six fighters on the two days. On conquered Leyte, American ground forces mopped up small and isolated Japanese remnants which the communique said, were "capable only minor opposition." During Monday, 899 more of the enemy were killed and 14 captured, at a cost of seven American dead and 21 wounded.

Thus enemy casualties for the Leyte campaign were raised to Firing Squad Slays French Gestapo Men Paris, Dec. 27- A military firing squad today executed Henri Chamberlain, alias La Fonte, bers of Vichy's French Gestapo Pierre Bony and six other, memwho were convicted of collusion with the Germans against French patriots during the occupation of France. Of 12 members of the French Gestapo who have: been brought to trial two were given life im-1 prisonment sentences, one died before a verdict was reached and another's death sentence was commuted to life imprisonment by Gen. De Gaulle. To Rest Case Trenton, Dec.

for Clarence Hill, 34-year-old negro. soldier charged with the slaying of 15-year-old Mary Myatovich of Trenton on Nov. 7, are expected to rest their case today in Mercer County court. Prunes, lb. 15c; String Beans, 2 cans 25c.

Bond Stores and Green Food Market. p. roughly at three-day intervals through December 3. The Superfortresses dodged intense anti-aircraft fire on the December 3. smash and fought off swarms of fighters.

One B-29 "Good" results Obtained' with precision bomblets, the War Department announced. The size of today's force. was not indicated. Some 60 to 150 planes, Tokyo have raisd. participated in preToday's smash followed a report from 21st Bomber Command headquarters that the Saipanbased planes have dumped over.

3,000,000 pounds of "bombs on Honshu targets. Honshu is the -principal Nipponese home island. Japanese planes, seeking to destroy the Superfortresses in their home nests, hit the Saipan bases Christmas Eve, Admiral Chester W. Nimitz reported. About 25 Japanese planes swooped in and destroyed one plane on the ground.

damaged several others and injured six men. Four of the attackers were shot down. Air Aflack On Nazis Increases Heavy Bombers Spearhead Attack London, Dec. 27. -(AP) from Britain spearheaded another assault against the German western front offensive today.

Favorable weather over the continent permitted Allied planes, based Belgium, Holland and France to, join the attack. The German radio reported formations of heavy bombers heading north over Austria, indicating that Flying Fortresses and Liberators of the U. S. 15th Air Force were striking from Italy at Nazi war industries far behind the battle lines. The Flying Fortresses and Liberators of the U.

S. Eighth Air Force attacked rail Coblenz and rail bridges north of the city, RAF heavy bombers bombed German troops and tank concentrations. north of St. Vith. of the front line assault yesterday was borne by the U.

S. Ninth Air Force and the British Second Tactical Air Force, both based on the continent. American fighters and bombers and the RAF destroyed more than 1.000 German motor vehicles, including 146 armored cars and tanks, and 71 Nazi planes. Allied losses were set at 30 fighters and one bomber. Approximately 500 heavy bombers of the 15th Air Force attacked three German synthetic oil refineries yesterday.

Commando Kelly Gives $500 To Army Hospital Butler, Dec. 27- -The soldiers at Deshon General Hospital here got $500 Christmas present from Sgt. Charles E. Kellybecause, the "Commando" said, he wanted, "the guys to share my good Col. C.

J. Gentzkow, commanding afficer of the big Army hospital, announced the Pittsburgh hero arranged for the gift after he visited Deshon several months ago. Congressional Medal of Honor winner gave the money from proceeds of his magazine and movie rights. Gentzkow said the money would be used to "add little things which are so importatit." Killed In Action Bridgeton, Dec. Private Robert D.

'Henderson, 21, who resided. with his grandmother Mrs. Jennie Henderson, Bivalve, was killed in action in Germany November 22, according to a War I Department Henderson's father, telegram. John derson, is a Warrant Officef in the U. S.

Navy and has been in the Pacific area for a "year and a half. Pvt. Henderson was in the Army for two years and overseas since September. Announce Engagement Mr. and Mrs.

Joseph Makowsky of Rosenhayn, announce the engagement of their daughter, Miss Florence Makowsky, to Mario Andrew Kocielski, son of Mrs. Mary Radzevich, of Fairton Road, this Late Developments On German Thrust Not Yet Revealed With Allied Armies on the Western Front, 9:04 A. Dec. 27. -(AP)- An atmosphere of comparative quiet, uneasy and almost ominous, overhung the western front today.

Each side pawed tentatively. and ineffectually at the other's defenses. Discounting the possibility of a calm before the storm as the im-. port of -this freakish period, the Allied position seems to be the most cheerful since Field Marshal Von Rundstedt uncorked his Counter-stab 10 days ago, Both sides of the German ponetration corridor have been, generally solidified by the Allies. And at the westernmost point, the enemy armored, thrust had been battered heavily several times.

A staff officer said all enemy progress northward from the deepest point had been "greatly slowed If. not fully stopped, despite repeated German power thrusts toward vital Allied supply lines and dumps. Paris, Dec. 27. -(AP) U.

S. troops in Christmas Day counterattack slammed back German armor that had reached to Cellos, only four miles from the Meuse River and 50 miles from Brussels, Supreme: Headquarters disclosed today. By. Christmas night. American forces hurled into the path of the German bid for the Meuse strongly held the town of Celles only eight miles from the northern bulge of France and were reported to have blunted a second armored spearhead which had rammed to Ciney, 14 miles below Namur.

Later developments after this check two days ago to the Nazi spearhead's thrust miles into Belgium were not disclosed. An 11-mile Sunday plunge had carried two forward columns of the Nazi offensive powered by two and perhaps three armies to Celles and to Ciney, six miles northeastward and nine from the Meuse. Garrison Resists The surrounded Bastogne garri4 son of several thousand doughboys still held out in an epic stand. Gen. Eisenhower' ing counterassault from the south at last reports still was miles from the city, but the front of his attack had been widened.

The great battle raging through Belgium and Luxembourg. appeared to be mounting toward a climax, with Field Marshal Karl Von Rundstedt committing more men to the struggle and hammering ceaselessly at American troops along his northern flank. Climax Nears In a front dispatch last night Associated Press Correspondent Wes Gallagher said there were growing indications that the German high command had decided to risk the heart of the German Army in this western front effort. He added: "The next few days should tell the story, with strong prospects for the greatest battle of the Second World War in the offing. This dispatch said that in general the northern flank is being held, forcing the German commander even farther west in his efforts to turn toward Liege and Antwerp.

On the basis of latest battlefield information available at Supreme Headquarters yesterday information that was then 48 hours old German armor and infantry had smashed 11 miles deeper into Belgium and were within four miles of the Meuse River frt: the area south of Namur. So far as was known. here, the Germans had not reached the Meuse last night. Von Rundstedt is employing at least, two and possibly three armies in the current German counteroffensive. He has thrown into battle the reorganized Seventh Army, which was badly cut up by the Allies in Normandy, and the Fifth Panzer Army, and probably has another Panzer Army at his disposal.

The commander of the Fifth Panzer Army is Gen. Hasso Eccard Von Manteuffel the Devil Man a typical Junker officer from a Pomeranian family, whose main business for centuries has been the waging of war. Rundstedt still has substantial reserves, reserves that two months ago were thought impossible by most Allied military Gallagher said. 503.