Middle East Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 8, 1944, Cairo, Egypt                                September 1944 of War lovin Ermany think army thrum from the Verdun area a Layoff yanks travel 165 Miles in i n drive i nto be i g i u m lines May give the germans rime to regroup their badly scattered tens of thousands strengthen its Supply nazi troops Are pocketed in the Channel port their delaying action eventually with United states first 4rmt in associated press correspondent Don Whitehead said that i Hodges after scoring5one of the1 greatest victories since Drav and capturing thousands of German drove deeply into Bel Gium and headed Lor he More than prisoners were bagged 3 and uncounted thousands were streaming into Pri Soner pens in one of the biggest hauls since the allies landed on the beaches of Normandy three months truckload after truckload of germans in Green Gray uniforms were rolling Down the roads in the Vicinity of Mons where Hodges sprang the trap to envelop the confused and Panicky enemy which is now utterly without Battle form or organized after the liberation of drove straight toward the German Border and the Sedan but before reaching Sedan a column wheeled just As at Leman Sto to Spring the Falaise Argenta this time the jaws of the trap Long marches on foot spearheaded by armoured co the infantry moved ahead Riding pieces and anything else on Many of them had to make Long forced marches on they made a sensational Advance and the Hook ing movement caught the germans by three German generals and several other High officers were taken prisoner by the hundreds of prisoners Are walking Down roads without guards As Armor Rolls on with no time to halt and put them under White flags of surrender Are fluttering from every town and the germans have been trying desperately to find a Way out of the prisoners a Are being taken stars stripes in Grenoble stars and stripes has issued its first Grenoble Paris stars and stripes resumed publication in this capital 25 years after publishing its last edition in the first world All Over the rear the Ger mans broke up into groups of 50 to 200 All attempting to re treat to the German Border in the general a1italong the roads Are wrecks of enemy vehicles and Black hulks of burned out at a town near the belgian Border american military police Are putting prisoners in old French the count for the Day reached at this one collecting not Many of the prisoners seemed dejected As they entered1 the the troops under Hodges had travelled 165 for an average of 20 Miles for eight Cognac flows in describing the scene when american troops crossed the Bel Gian Whitehead said our jeeps looked like a rolling Flower Garden after the first few the germans had pulled out just two hours before the yanks cams up the then the belgians brought out their hidden flags of Black and along with Home made flags of France and at the Crossroads of a american soldiers congregated on a Side Road while belgians crowded about them laughing and cheer mar and giving the boys Pope recognizes Force As weapon for world peace Vatican while acknowledging that the use of Force May foe necessary to pre serve world called for a peace founded of Christian print the pontiff in a broadcast on the fifth anniversary of the pleaded for winners and losers in the conflict to join in a postwar social he defended private rights while declaring that conditions of the masses should be the social state of workers must be improved and capitalism will have to make concessions to this Pope pin size state is up in arms Cognac and an american Corporal said this is the greatest Welcome received since i crossed the garlands of Flowers dangled from his our casualties Washington acting of War Robert Patterson announced that the week ending August 13 had added to american army total army casualties for All Heaters of War As of 13 is Gas Burden lighter Washington soldiers going overseas now carry 15 pounds less of equipment and clothing than carried by men who embarked in the War the reduction in the soldiers Load from to 95 pounds was achieved by use of lighter fabrics for clothing and elimination of Many san Marino this tiniest 38 Square Miles population and oldest state in Europe founded currently menaced by fleeing germans and pursuing eighth army troops mov ing up the italian has mobilized its entire armed strength and posted signs on All its entrances keep out this is a Neutral every mile of the Frontier is being patrolled by the three Hund red Man army enlarged to 25 times its Normal strength of 12 men and the Council says it is prepared to take further san Marino lies six Miles Inland below posed As Shakespeare new York genre c Rahn has pleaded guilty to posing As William former notre Dame football to win the Confidence of victims in an office Supply buy More War Bonds peace designers reveal Points of preliminary Washington chairman Edward Stettinius of the Dumbarton Oaks peace Parley has revealed the tentative agreements reached Between great Britain and the United the american under of state said an Accord has been reached for an Assembly comprising a restricted of members in which the principal Powers will be joined by smaller states to elected to the Council Perio an International court of Justice and an application of such other Means As May be necessary to peace and Stettinius that among Many details still under discussion is the number of major Powers to be represented on the proposed Council whether it be limited to the United Bri Russia and China or whether such states As France might be admitted to Pennanen member must have says for president in com menting on the told his press conference that the design for the new world setup must have More formidable Teeth than the old league of he pointed out that the league Council had no Quick Means of enforcing while the new organization would have the Force to move promptly and Quill new York newspapers carried he report that Many diplomats at the conference lean toward the russian proposal for the creation of an International air Force to police the postwar world under the direction of the combined chiefs of China is not represented in the sessions because Russia is still aloof from the War in the far the soviet representatives Are deliberating in the conference As Anglo american partner in the european Lone Ranger is killed Long Lee who As the re masked Lone Rode his White Stal lion through 15 episodes of a motion picture has been killed in a Powell fought at Tarawa and rations troops secure Moselle continued from Page 1 triumphs for patrons men had the supreme being first to fight on German soil after pushing the germans Back from their armistice line of All the Allied forces had assignments in which Satis Lection must have been a compelling Factor in their stun Ning with some forces deployed to encase the robot bomb territory which has been the seat of destruction for their the British pierced into Belgium and by Nightfall had literally liberated the entire at Canadian forces arrived in the City where their Bro thers had fallen in the strategically informing raid of the summer of yanks far past Lyons Eisenhower announced that Prince Bernhard of the nether Consort of Crown Princess would head the fighting forces of the the prime minister of Luxem in announced the americans had pushed into that tiny grand which had fallen with the Low countries that action packed tenth of in the Fri apparently clinched their control of the spa Nish virtually unopposed at the Patch yanks in the South not Only pushed far past Lyons toward the Pat Tori forces tin but also fanned Oast along the delayed More by mined areas than by outright re one dispatch claimed the americans from had crossed the Hiorth italian Border and Wen in Contact with the italian parti Geisha girl tickles fuzzy Zuzys palate Solomon Myron Graybill asked a native chief if he had seen any women at japanese installations near his the chief re he had seen at least Jap woman at the How can you toe so tut0 Graybill 1 ate said the chief