June 10, 1944;TOWNS SEIZED NEAR CHERGOURG:

THIS WAS REPORTED TODAY. JUNE 10,1944:

By WES GALLAGHER

SUPREME HEADQUARTERS,' ALLIED EXPEDITIONARY FORCE,

 June 10.—(AP)—

American troops—supported by Allied planes operating from French soil for the first time since 1940—fought through German-flooded battlegrounds today toward strategic Cherbourg, cutting the railway below the port in several places and seizing two important towns.

By NOLAND NORGAARD

Rome June 10.--(AP)

The German 14th Army fled northward today with increasing disorder, and

the Allied command for the first time declared officially that a "catastrophe" has befallen Field Marshal Albert Kesselring's forces in Italy.

NF.W YORK, .lime 10. — (/P)

French patriot formation!) have  surrounded Grenoble, in Southern France, and the city is "now in a state of siege," the Swiss newspaper  l.a Suis.se said in an article reported today by OWI.

LONDON. .June 10—

Turbulent conditions prevail in Central France, especially in the Vichy region,

where a general uprising is threatened as a result of the Allied invasion of Normandy, boarder dispatches relayed from Barcelona, Spain, reported today.

 

OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA, SATURDAY, JUNE 10, 1944

Yanks Capture

2 Vital Towns

Isigny, Trevieres Seized as American

Troops Drive Through Nazi-Flooded

Battleground Toward Port of Cherbourg

By WES GALLAGHER

SUPREME HEADQUARTERS,' ALLIED EXPEDITIONARY FORCE,

 June 10.—(AP)—

American troops—supported by Allied planes operating from French soil for the first time since 1940—fought through German-flooded battlegrounds today toward strategic Cherbourg, cutting the railway below the port in several places and seizing two important towns.

The powerful U.S. attack hampered by flood waters inches to seven feet deep, hammered north toward Cherbourg, west in. a push to snip off the peninsula tip. and developed two-way squeeze on Carentan guarding the narrowest neck of the jutting cape.

Berlin broadcasts put the Americans within 15 miles of Cherbourg, and said German forces, in the face of fresh parachute landings, were withdrawing south of Montebourg to shorten their lines.

FRENCH AIR BASES

U.S. Thunderbolts and R.A.F. Spitfires landed and took off from airfields established in France just four days after the invasion, roaring out in closest support of the ground assault.

Americans battling between Bayeux and Carcntan seized Isigny control point for floodgates there of the German-wrought inundation and Trevieres, nine miles west of Bayeux,

GERMAN RETREAT IN ITALY

BECOMES DISORDERLY ROUT

Allied Command Says 'Catastrophe' Has

Befallen Kesselring's Fleeing Troops

By NOLAND NORGAARD

Rome June 10.--(AP)

The German 14th Army fled northward today with increasing disorder, and

the Allied command for the first time declared officially that a "catastrophe" has befallen Field Marshal Albert Kesselring's forces in Italy.

Slashing steadily northward after the retreating foe, the  Fifth Army captured the ancient town of Tuscania 13 miles northeast of Tarquinia. Despite the p,r<;;>t speed of Lieut. Gen. Mark  W, Clark's pursuing troops, which have averaged

roughly 15 miles daily since the fall of Rome, an official spokesman declared they are "unable to catch up with any important elements of

Col. Gen. Eberhard von Mickelsen's 14th Army, which is withdrawing in this area in a completely disorganized fashion."

The Eighth Army has picked up speed in its northward advance near the Adriatic.

Patriots Peril

French Cities »

Grenoble Surrounded;

Uprisings Threaten

Vichy, Other Sections

NF.W YORK, .lime 10. — (/P)

French patriot formation!) have  surrounded Grenoble, in Southern France, and the city is "now in a state of siege," the Swiss newspaper  l.a Suis.se said in an article reported today by OWI.

LONDON. .June 10—

Turbulent conditions prevail in Central France, especially in the Vichy region,

where a general uprising is threatened as a result of the Allied invasion of Normandy, boarder dispatches relayed from Barcelona, Spain, reported today.

The dispatches, which said the Nazis are fearing a new invasion thrust by the Allies on the French Mediterranean coast, gave this picture of conditions:

Barricades have been flung across roads by Vichy and German forces.

All civilian motor trafic has been banned in four departments in the Vichy area. Vichy police warned they would shoot on sight any unofficial car in motion.

FIGHTING FLARES

Open fighting has occurred between Vichy forces and French patriots at Gannal, within 10 miles of Vichy, and a score of persons have been slain.

 

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