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HURD ARMY
ENTERS CITY OF
S A ARGUIEMEN S
PARIS, Dec. 6.—(AP)—Th(
Third Army thrust a wid<
bridgehead across the Saar to
ward the northwest of invadet
Saarlautern today, and enterec
%aarguiemens, which has beei
shelled, and where there wer<
many smoking factories, it ha:
been reported today.
Over open gunsights, beyonc
Saarlautern, the Americans an
mopping up the last fitful oppo
sition to Gen. Patton's assault.
The troops are well within th<
Seigfried defenses and are as
saulting its pillboxes, blockhous
es. trenches and tank obstacle:
with flame throwers, cannon am
b<|£onet.
The new Saar crossing wa:
made along a two and one-hal
mile stretch between Saarlau
tern and Merzig by the 19 h Di
vision, which spanned the strean
in four places along the stretcl
of the original crossing.
Late yesterday, the 35th In
fantry Division advanced up sev
en miles in Liaison.
Tanks entered the edge of th«
^pEit of Saaregumeins itself, whid
is the major coal producing city
Off to the right, Gen. Patton’s
army has a 40-mile front solid
ly within Germany.
The Fourth Armored and the
36th Infantry Divisions rolled up
three miles to the northward,
through Lorraine, toward the
German Seigfried Line.
Comparative quiet prevailed
again on the Beor river front.
Within 22 miles of Cologne, the
U. S. First Army completed the
<fffe)ture of Bergs'ein, on the edge
of the Hurtgen Forest.
The U. S. Ninth Army to the
north, reported only patrol and
ratillery action in the area be
tween Julich and Llnnich.
The outskirts of both have
been reached.
The British Second Army stood
firm along the Maas river.
Canadians In the Arnheim
and Nijmegen area are plagued
by ? flood of waters from the
Rhine, which was loosed by the
Germans from the dykes.
The U. S. Seventh Army and
the French First Army continued
a methodical elimination of the
last German hold on the Lorraine
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HEADQUARTERS
OF EAM SEIZED
IN ATHENS
ATHENS, Greece, Dec. 6.—
(AP)—A British Sherman tank
platoon of British soldiers, seiz
I ed the headquarters of the left
wing element of the EAM party
by storm today, as fighting
spread through wide areas in
Athens, it has been reported.
The communist party building
1 on Constitution Square, was also
taken by parachute troopers, who
forced the main entrance with
i grenades and seized 18 armed
communists there, who have been
fighting the tanks with machine
! guns. They had fired on a truck
load of British troops befoie
| dawn, killing one and wounding
; another.
A Sherman tank was sent to
; batter in the door of the EAM
: headquarters.
British troops charged up the
stairs, scattering the EAM de
fenders with half a dozen bursts
of fire, cleaning it up floor by
floor.
One British soldier was killed
! by a stray bullet while searching
' the building.
I , The refusal of the EAM to
BRITISH AND
POLISH TROOPS
CROSS LAMONE
ROME, Dec. 6.—(AP)—The
British and Polish troops today
smashed across the Lamone riv
er, southwest of Faenza, and es
tablished a bridgehead, while
some Eighth Army units were
clearing out the isolated enemy
groups, it has been reported.
They have captured Ravenna,
ancient Ostrogoth capital, which
is an important communications
center.
This was followed by a mark
ed Eighth Army advance west
ward, which is driving the disor
ganized German elements back
behind the lower Lamone river.
The entire Ravenna-Godo road
has been cleared.
The town of San lyiichele,
which is four miles west of Ra
venna, and the town of Piangi
pane, which is five miles west
of Ravenna, have also been ta
ken.
11".band its militia brought on
the crisis which Britain sup
ported by assisting the shaken
government and Premier Papan
dreaou.
| GEN. TRUSCOTT
IN COMMAND
OF FIFTH ARMY
ROME, Dec. 6.—(AP)—Lt. Gen.
Lucian Truscott, Jr., 49, who has
commanded the allied forces at
Anzio beachhead, and later led
the assault troops in the invasion
of southern France, has been
appointed commander of the U.
S. Fifth Army, it was reported
today. j
Gen. Truscott succeeds Lt.
Gen. Mark Clark, who was re
cently named commander of the
15th Army Corps, and command
er of all allied ground forces in
Italy.
Gen. Clark succeeds Field Mar
shal Sir Harold Alexander, who
was appointed allied commander
-in-chief of the Mediterranean.
HAROLD OMWARI
PASSES AWAY
Harold Omwari, a Native from
Gambell on St. Lawrence Island,
who has been in the Maynard
Columbus Hospital for some time,
passed away. Funeral arrange
ments have not been announced
as yet. I
SAYS BRITAIN
IS WELL WITHIN
HER RIGHTS
LONDON, Dec. 6.—(AP>—For
eign Secretary Eden today assert
ed flatly that Britain was within
her rights by trying to shape
the governments of the liberated
countries.
This assertion split completely
the American declara4ion to keep
a ‘‘hands off” policy in Italy.
Eden stood by the British gov
ernment’s veto of the proposed
appointment of Carlo Sforza for
Italian foreign minister.
Secretary Stettinius announced
yesterday that the United States
did not oppose Sforza and felt
that the Italians should be al
lowed to form their own govern
ment without outside interfer
ence.
Eden’s statement clearly sig
nifies the significance of Brit
ain’s attitude in the reshaping of
post-war Europe.
This brought a divided senti
ment in the House of Represen
tatives.
Cries of ‘‘No” met the suggest -
tion of Ivor Thomas, a laborite
in Britain, to withdraw grace
fully and admit it was a blun
der.
Just as Sec. Stettinius implied
in his no interfreence s'atement,
for far broader declaration than
the immediate issue of Count
Sforza, so Eden apparently ap
plied his words to the future of
all liberated Europe.
He said: “I must repeat to the
House that I maintain the Brit
ish government has a perfect
right to express an opinion to
another government about a min
ister under conditions such as
these.”
The British press commented
sharply on the American note,
implying it to be rude.
The Manchester Guardian said
that it was meant to be so and
the Yorkshire Post said that it
smacked of self-righteousness.
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