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Line Consolidated In Netherland The first sunny day in over a week found the Germans with his Moselle River defenses shattered. Town after town was evacuated as the 7th Army punched forward. The French forces have pierced the first line to the Belfort Gap fortress in several places, and were advancing against stiff German resistance in the Vosges mountains. Ten miles northeast of Epinal, the Americans advanced as far as Padoux. Other towns taken were Dillioncourt, Ayeacilles and DomPierre. Docelles, scene of heavy fighting, was cleared yesterday, but near to Tendon, heavy fighting continued. ELST OCCUPIED Great air battles were fought over Holland as the Germans threw in the remaining strength of their Luftwaffe. The British troops extended their salient running from the Belgian border to the south bank of the upper Rhine. The village of Elst was occupied and the road extending from Njimegen to the upper Rhine was cleared. Gains were also made toward the west within 25 miles of the Zuyder Zee.
BATTLE FOR HUNGARY Moscow set the stage for a great offensive across Hungarian plains toward southeast Germany. The Red Army asked permission from Tito to enter Yugoslava, with the Yugoslav’s retaining civil control of areas occupied by Russian troops.
« SPRING OF ‘45 » « Unless a German collapse comes soon », said Prime Minister Winston Churchill in the House of Commons, « enormous American forces will be brought to bear in the future ». He also warned of guerilla fighting in Germany, but said the date of the ending of the warfare there not necessarily await the end for the last bit of resistance..
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