German prisoners transported to rear from Meuse battle. German prisoners, taken by U.S.

German prisoners transported to rear from Meuse battle. German prisoners, taken by U.S. troops who halted the Nazi drive to the Meuse River, hard together in a U.S. army truck, under guard of an American military policeman. They will be transported with other truckloads of prisoners to the rear for internment. The U.S. War Department announced in Washington December 26 that 13,273 Germans had been taken prisoner during the first nine days of the enemy counter-offensive begun December 16. Fighting in the biting cold of Belgium and on the snow-covered hills of Luxembourg, American soldiers stopped the Germans December 27, within fout miles of the Meuse and approximately 50 miles inside Belgium. Dispatches from Surpeme Headquarters, Allied Expeditionary Forces, reported that U.S. troops had retaken the towns of Ciney and Celles, the western points of the Germann stab into American lines. Both towns lie about four miles to the east of Dinant, which is on the Meuse.