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Rundstedt's Move. In the south, General Patton's Third Army was hurling savage diversionary attacks between Bitburg and Prum, and against Trier in the Moselle Valley. General Patch's Seventh Army was attacking Forbach and Saarbrücken. In the north, General Crerar's First Canadian Army had taken Goch, and was throwing in an armored attack behind a five-hour artillery barrage. Between Crerar and Simpson, the British Second Army was waiting to jump off. Field Marshal von Rundstedt could hardly afford to weaken any of these sectors to strengthen the Cologne plain...
Continued quiet in the ticklish Forbach salient, overlooking the ghost industrial city of Saarbrücken, led observers to guess that the German onslaught there last month, which for a time had the French defenders entirely cut off from support and supplies (TIME, Nov. 13), was a typical German "information" offensive, designed to find out what the French command will do in given circumstances rather than to take an objective now. Before the great Ludendorff push of 1918, the Germans conducted innumerable attacks of inquiry, compiled a thorough textbook on the behavior of various generals commanding various parts...
...news correspondents wished to see action, the one salient to which they should have been sent was Forbach, the French industrial town (pop. 11,491) which is a small counterpart of Germany's Saarbrücken, five miles northeast. Forbach is outside the Maginot Line and its forts overlook the German city in the Saar Valley below. The French push of September brought other artillery up to assist Forbach's in dominating Saarbrücken, paralyzing its industry. The French retreat in October left Forbach sticking out like a sore thumb. By last week the Germans had brought...
Following is the program for the Pop Concert in Symphony Hall this evening: Wagner Night. 1. March, "Tannhauser,"Wagner 2. Waltz, "Les Chanteurs des Bois," Forbach 3. Selection, "Naughty Marietta," Herbert 4. Overture, "Rienzi," Wagner 5. Huldingung's March, Wagner 6. Albumblatt, Wagner 7. Selection, "Lohengrin," Wagner 8. Ride of the Valkyries, Wagner 9. Overture, "Tannhauser," Wagner 10. Night Fly Dance (from Isles Comic Opera), Far Away Maquarre 11. Waltz, "Espana," Waldteufel 12. Lichtenstein March, B. Triebel
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