LONDON, March 2 (AP) – Nazi rulers ordered a scorched earth defense of western Germany today as enemy broadcasts declared the British Second Army had launched a new offensive on the Meuse (Maas) River that, they said, set 160 miles of the Western Front aflame.
There was no Allied confiration of the enemy broadcast, which said that Lieut. Gen Sir Miles C. Dempsey had sent his British troops smashing across the Meuse between the onrushing United States Ninth Army and the Canadian First Army at the north end of the front.
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