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...raged for the wedges the Americans had been able to hold in the Monschau-Malmédy-Stavelot area and to the west of Saint-Vith. But they were perilous triangular salients. Lieut. General Courtney H. Hodges' First Army had apparently stopped the spearhead closest to Liège, focal point of U.S. supplies...
...could not be minimized; nor could U.S. losses in men and materiel. There the Germans had surged past U.S. garrisons (as at Wiltz and Bastogne), destroying or cutting off large units. In the Bastogne and Arlon areas the surge had cut the wide cement road and the Liège-Metz railroad over which U.S. supplies had moved. In the Saint-Hubert area the Germans were in range of other lateral arteries...
Bottled Goods. The Nazis little knew how serious his work was. Under cover of theoretical researches at the Collège de France, he led in the organization of 18 laboratories for making explosives and incendiary bottles for resistance units. At least twelve Nazi tanks were destroyed by the bottles. Huge quantities of guncotton were made from cotton received a bale at a time. Radio transmitters and receivers were assembled for the underground despite, in some cases, Nazi occupancy of the same buildings. Joliot continued the publication of L'Université Libre, which reached a fortnightly circulation...
...question of how hard or how early the West Wall is to break depends on manpower. Last week's victories at Mons and Liège helped to cut off several divisions which the Germans had undoubtedly counted...
Another smart move of General Hodges -pushing two columns forward to threaten Liège and then cutting the city off from behind by a third column-cut up another German division, captured a thousand prisoners, killed one general and captured another without a real fight...